Sgt. Wolverine and His Howling…Uh…Sabretooth
For those of you who think that I simply piss on everything here at Topless Robot, I have to say these well-edited X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailers are effectively winning me over. I’ve never been a big Wolverine or X-Men fan, but those shots of Logan and Sabretooth storming the beaches at Normandy kind of gives me a nerd boner, as the kids like to say. I’m not as excited about the adventures of lil’ Wolvie and Sabertooth in 19th-century Canada, but I’d happily watch an entire movie of those two just killing Nazis (which will pretty much be Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, from what I’ve heard).
Also, Hasbro — if you don’t make a firing squad Wolverine figure and call it Tickle Me Logan, YOU DO NOT LIKE MONEY. I’ll pay double if you make it giggle like Elmo when he gets shot.
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.