Der Red Skull Ist Lookin’ Sharp, Red
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?We saw him in the Captain America movie trailer for a half-second, but here’s the first official promo pic of Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull. Three things: 1) He looks fantastic. 2) I really, seriously want a Hydra belt-buckle. Marvel, please license it out and send me one. 3) I cannot — absolutely cannot — see the Red Skull now without getting Spike Jones’ “Der Fuehrer’s Face” song stuck in my head. Someone please help me.
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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.