Things We Saw Today: Victorian Spock

Spock, you’re such a scamp! Don’t you know time travel is totally against the Prime Directive? It’s only allowed when we need to save the universe, not when you want to tinker with gears! You can see more of the crew done up this way on Retronaut. (via Kottke) 

• There’s a new Men In Black 3 trailer. I can’t decide if I want to love this movie or hate it. (via MovieBob)
• In case you were wondering, the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 3 script is finished. Now what? (via Collider)
• Corrina Lawson writes an open letter to DC Comics editorial as Lois Lane. The gist? Stop wasting her potential. (via Wired)

We love this rendition of Princess Merida from Brave by Natalie Hall. Check out her versions of Totoro, Batman, the Rocketeer and more at Comics Alliance.

• DC Comics join the Library of Congress! (via The Beat)
• Marvel has some more Amazing Spider-Man tie-in nail-polish to show us. One of the colors is named: My Boyfriend Scales Walls. Hey, at least there’s a red this time. (via io9)

Star Wars pops and a rice krispie Death Star!? (via Geeks are Sexy)

• Since debuting on the scene in 2009, 50 million digital comics were downloaded on Comixology. You read that correctly. (via The Beat)
• PBS and AOL have started a project called Makers which celebrates exceptional women. They’ve got interviews with Gloria Steinem, Ellen DeGeneres, Tavi Gevinson, Billie Jean King, Barbara Walters so far. (via Pop Candy)

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Jill Pantozzi

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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