If you have even a passing familiarity with The CW network you know they follow a distinct thread. It involves long, meaningful looks and angst. Entertainment Weekly wondered how this format might work on HBO’s Game of Thrones so they edited together a video that leans heavily on heartthrob. Not as many dismemberments as we’d like but hey, Dawson’s Creek didn’t have them either.
Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."
