Things We Saw Today: How Marvel & DC Coexist

Bryan Nielsen illustrates the classic Coexist design with a comic book twist. We’re of the mind that the E is cheating but we like the whole thing too much to care. (via Split Reason) 

• HBO couldn’t have asked for better publicity. The actors who play Jon Snow and Ygritte, Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, are apparently dating in real life. What’s better, this or the time we found out the Doctor’s new companion was dating Robb Stark? (via The Frisky)
• Remember the Drag Queen Barbie we mentioned a few days ago that everyone was questioning? Mattel made a statement saying it is not, in fact, a drag queen. (via Jezebel)
• io9 has a list of 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. For instance, did you know it was originally planned as a sci-fi western?

SamHain Press made a mini Mars Curiosity Rover into a pendant!

• An in depth look at the magic technology of Harry Potter, real world technology, and what they say about the user. (via PopMatters)
• There’s a book store in Brooklyn, New York called Singularity & Co. that’s trying to help preserve sci-fi works. They track down authors of out-of-print books and get their permission to post them online as ebooks. Their goal is to do at least one a month. (via NY Daily News)
• Apparently Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld will be joining DC’s Justice League Dark title soon as well as having her own. (via Bleeding Cool)

I have no comment on this image of Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield. None. (via Empire)

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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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