It has been a busy day for nerds. In my earlier post*, Dingo Rossi asks:

What, no coverage of Stan Lee's gay superhero? You guys are slacking.

Sorry, Dingo. Whenever I see the name Stan Lee, my eyes glaze over. (Have you read anything he's produced since 1970? Christ!) Anyway, here's the scoop:

Stan Lee is developing an hour-long drama at Showtime about the life of a gay teenage superhero. The series is based on a 2007 novel by Perry Moore called Hero. Moore is a screenwriter and film director, but is best known as the producer of the Chronicles of Narnia movies. He is writing the pilot for the Showtime series.

In Hero, high schooler Thom Creed finds his superpowers manifesting just as he's beginning to realize his own sexual orientation. Fearing shame and backlash from his homophobic hometown, he struggles to keep both his powers and homosexuality a secret.

I have heard good things about Hero, but I have not read it. It's a young adult novel. I bet your local independent bookseller has it in stock.

And just because I feel like it, I am going to put up this fabulous waste of time, in which someone imagined what a Dark Knight 8-bit Nintendo game would look like:


*Also in the previous post, TheFang asks:"Shouldn't we be worried about Spider-man being laid off too from the Daily Bugle?" I know the answer to this one, TheFang. Actually, Spider-Man got a job working for a news website in the comics. I have no idea how he's getting paid to do that, but maybe the publisher has a mutant power to somehow run a profitable news website.