Things We Saw Today: An Academy Award Face Swap

Dustin Glick at NextMovie.com has taken posters or scenes from this year’s Academy Award nominees and swapped faces for some really interesting results. 

• Learn how to be a Jedi in a lightsaber class in San Francisco. (via The Frisky)
• Writer Will Brooker didn’t like how women were represented in comic books so he created My So-Called Secret Identity with artist Susan Shore and PhD student Sarah Zaidan. The story follows Cat, a PhD student who creates her own secret identity. (via The Guardian)

The Hollywood Reporter featured this Tim Burton Frankenweenie illustration in their Oscar issue.

• Cover art by John Romita, Sr. from the famous Amazing Spider-Man issue where Gwen Stacy bit the dust, just went for $268,000 dollars at auction. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
• The CW has cast actress Yael Grobglas for the lead role of America Singer in The Selection. It’s based on the young adult novel by Kiera Cass. (via Deadline)

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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."

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