Things We Saw Today: Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan Says Goodbye On Behalf Of The Ponds

We posted a short while ago about Karen Gillan starting on her last episode of Doctor Who. We had all the sads. Now she’s announced via her twitter account that her job is complete (it got 50+ retweets in under a minute). She’s no longer working on Doctor Who. Co-star Arthur Darvill who plays her husband Rory on the sci-fi series echoes her sentiments a short while later tweeting, “And. . . . That’s it.” Why do they torture us so? 

• Find out why Winona Dimeo-Ediger from The Frisky wants the man who legally changed his name to Tyrannosaurus Rex to be her boyfriend.  Although it’s quite obvious to me.

Tumblr user thartist72 is working on an illustration of ALL THE BATGIRLS…and The Doctor. We approve. (via DC Women Kicking Ass) Oh, and they’re also working on a Batgirl/Doctor comic cover.

• Now some news about another tumbler, specifically, Batman’s. The tumbler and bat-pod from The Dark Knight Rises will be going on tour. Check out the list of cities on Collider) to see if it will be near you!

Here’s a person dressed like Lego Batman, running a marathon. (via Fashionably Geek)

• Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray are bringing Phantom Lady and fellow Freedom Fighter, Doll Man, into the New 52 with a new 4-part mini-series. Cat Staggs and Rich Perotta will provide the art while Amanda Conner does covers. (via The Beat)

Chuck & Beans do a delightful Star Wars comic strip. (via The High Definite)

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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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