Things We Saw Today: First Thor Poster

“It’s rare that you have a poster that is just Chris Hemsworth shooting on the set,” said Marvel president of production Kevin Feige. “But he just looks like Thor. We just put in some lightning, and he’s got his hammer and you’re there.” Duh, because Hemsworth IS Thor. (via USA Today) 

• After letting attendees know earlier this week the show was still on, organizers of the Boston Comic Con had to make an announcement that the show planned for this weekend is now canceled/postponed.
• Watch a baby hedgehog try to eat a t-shirt on The Frisky.
• Watch Kate Beaton’s animated vine about eating a cookie.

Entertainment Weekly created a poster for Patton Oswalt’s impromptu Star Wars pitch. (via MTV)

• Reuters reports, “The Boy Scouts of America on Friday moved to partially lift its long-standing ban on gays, with a decision that would allow openly gay youth members but continue to bar gay adults in one of the largest youth serving organizations in America.”
• Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles is now back to being called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So that’s something. (via Blastr)
• Economics of Ice & Fire I: House Tyrell Is Richer Than House Lannister (via Slate)

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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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