A Senseless Tragedy at a Dark Knight Rises Screening
A gunman in Denver, Colorado broke into a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises last night, killing 12 people and injuring many, many more. The man is in police custody, but his abhorrent, despicable actions are going to make it hard to enjoy what should have been a pretty good nerd weekend. I know I generally shy away from the horrible and genuinely sad here at Topless Robot, but it felt wrong for me not to acknowledge this tragedy. There’s nothing you or I can do, no way we can make things better, no way to make sense of such madness; but when you see Dark Knight Rises this weekend, please take a moment to think about the people killed for no reason, and the hundreds of lives impacted by one man’s insanity and evil. Right now, unfortunately, it’s all we can do.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.