The Most Exciting Spawn Figure in Years
McFarlane Toy revealed its San Diego Comic Con exclusives, and I’ll be darned if it isn’t a kind of cool Spawn figure. Well, really it’s a Halo 3 Spartan figure, painted in Spawn colors, and called a Hell Spartan. Hey, it made me pay attention, and I haven’t thought about Spawn figures in at least five years. It’s going to be sold with one of those lame “active camoflage” Spartans, which just means cheap clear plastic, and there’ll be no separating the two when you get ’em at SDCC. Hope you don’t mind.
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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.