Things We Saw Today: Jonathan Frakes As Captain America

No, this is not a retro-fied picture of the Avengers shoot that’s taking place in New York City. Because that man in the Captain America suit is none other than Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Jonathan Frakes, who worked for Marvel in the 1970s. Amy Ratcliffe believes she has confirmed this by Mr. Frakes’ cleft chin. We stand by her conclusion. (at Geeks With Curves)

James Urbaniak, the voice of Dr. Venture on The Venture Bros., ran into H.E.L.P.E.R. at Dragon*Con this weekend, and now we wish we could have all hung out and had Rob Roys together.

Flavorwire has a slideshow of awesome photographs that were taken behind the scenes of Star Wars, including the the one below. And they make us think of how uninterested we are in seeing similar photos of the second trilogy.

In similar news, CNN has a list of things you never knew about Carrie Fisher, like how she wore Pac-Man earrings to Dragon*Con this weekend (!).

Our geeky patron saint of meddling kids in pillow form. (at So Geek Chic)

It’s better than planking, better than Batmanning and owling, and way better than stocking. Jezebel has caught wind of people taking part in what we’re going to call “Watsoning,” which is people replicating the “sexy couch perch” of Mary Jane Watson in this picture of her. What the artist didn’t tell anyone is that MJ was just about to put on lipstick with her boobs, and clearly, not everyone has all the information they needed before mocking this Work of Art. What? Suddenly you’re above boob-enabled lipstick application? Hipster.

Okay, all this fuss about a third X-Files movie. Here is exactly what Gillian Anderson said about it:

We’re hoping to… that’s something that we’ve said from the beginning, that we’d be interested in doing it if it ever came up again. I know that there are some discussions about it, I have no idea at what stage. There might a script, or how interested Fox is in doing it. We’re all hoping that it’s something that might take place. But they better hurry. 2012, which is the perfect subject matter is coming up quickly.

(at Bleeding Cool)

Hey, Jay Smooth: Extremely valid point. And also, if he’s running for President of the United States in 2012, Rick Perry could at least act like he’s living in these United States and it’s 2011, and people are still pretty familiar with Superman.

And finally, Bruce Campbell in a kilt:

(at Nerdcore)