The Satellite of Love Will Land at Comic Con
Fuck and yes. If you’re going to the San Diego Comic Con and are 1/10th the crazed Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan I am (I own every DVD, have the rest of the episodes on tape, two copies of the book, and a piece of Deep 13) you’re about to hear some very good news: There’s going to be an MST3K reunion at SDCC, including…well, everybody. From MST3KInfo:
On the panel will be: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Frank Conniff, Bill Corbett, Joel Hodgson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Bridget Nelson, Mike Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein. Wow.
The moderator will be Patton Oswalt.
This will be in support of the upcoming new MST DVDs from Shout Factory, who grabbed the license from Rhino not too long ago; I have no idea what their plans are, but Shout Factory has done some mighty fan-friendly DVDs of cult material (most recently, the Sam & Max cartoon), so I’m super excited! Yay!
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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.