Comments on: Just give me a chance! I can sell any story!

By: David Willis

David Willis — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:11:12 +0000

That’s what I told the guys at Walmart, but they said it was the worst they had.

By: gwalla

gwalla — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:08:59 +0000

Your butt-ugly sweater is not nearly butt-ugly enough. The magenta isn’t eye-searingly bright.

By: David Willis

David Willis — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:04:42 +0000

Nah. Donny was just a hack who wanted the $50,000 paycheck. He was just fired and was happy to have a new business opportunity that wasn’t writing comic books.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:15:37 +0000

It’s been years since I read this story, but as I recall, wasn’t Finkleberg trying to use the “Giant Robot” sightings in the northwest in order to drum up interest in a revival of Robot-Master? Wasn’t that the whole point of putting on the costume and breaking into public broadcasts as Robot-Master, and claiming the “Giant Robots” were his minions, a rather desperate — and ultimately dangerous — publicity stunt?

My point is that after the government got a hold of Finkleberg, and made him work for them, even if most of the general public didn’t believe Robot-Man was real, because he was a pre-existing fictional character, they would probably suspect that all the “Giant Robot” sightings up till then were a part of the same advertising campaign, and not real. And that would have still calmed the public down some.

By: TexasNinjaBuzzard

TexasNinjaBuzzard — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:21:07 +0000

I’m pretty sure Gabe Kaplan is too old to play Spike Spiegel in the live action adaptation.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:23:13 +0000

If I were you I would spend the night alternating between Donny Finkleberg, Jonah Hill, and Seth Rogen

By: Strikeracer

Strikeracer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:27:01 +0000

honestly id think it pretty kick ass if dr doom led the taliban! id at least have some respect for them then…

By: skies

skies — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:07:02 +0000

Nice.

By: David Willis

David Willis — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:59:06 +0000

The whole thing was started when Triple-I’s Walter Barnett found his son reading an issue of Robot-Master. Sure, maybe word would spread slowly that this guy on television was based on a badly-selling comic book, but why even tempt that fate to begin with? Just give him a new name and costume to begin with!

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:53:43 +0000

But how many people knew about it? I mean, not only had the book been canceled, but Donny and his ideas were considered SO worthless that he’d been fired. In a pre-Google age, I can see the word being slow to get out… and Donny has just mysteriously vanished, which would probably more than a little fear into those who worked on the comic.

On top of that, even if some people did start thinking it was faked, Robot Master broke into national broadcasts, and no one (save Blackrock) could really trace it to the government… I think chances are good that someone who knew the comic would just assume that RM was real and had patterned himself after the comic. It’s one of those things that’s just hare-brained and confusing enough to work, at least for a while.