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A lil positivity… Lunella Lafayette Named The Smartest Superhero In The Marvel Universe During San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel made an exciting announcement about the introduction of Moon Girl a.k.a. Lunella Lafayette who’s the smartest superhero in the Marvel universe. Teen VOGUE reports: Lunella is the main character in the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur comics, which is a remake of Devil Dinosaur, a classic graphic novel that follows a T-Rex that is magically transported to modern day NYC. In the new version, Lunella replaces the original hero, Moon Boy, and she eventually teams up with the monstrous dino. Part of what makes Lunella so smart is the fact that she carries an “inhuman gene,” and she also is a skillful engineer. Just announced: Moon Girl, smartest person in the Marvel Universe?! pic.twitter.com/7MOhaqqWid — Amy Reeder (@amyreeder) July 24, 2016 BuzzFeed spoke to Marvel senior editor Mark Paniccia about what’s in store for Lunella in the upcoming issues of the series. Mark said that, “In the third arc of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Lunella faces an impossible half-dozen science-challenges that might not only prove her smarts, but also save the world.” Just announced at SDCC: Who's the smartest in the Marvel Universe? Nope, not Reed Richards. It's Lunella Lafayette! pic.twitter.com/s3rRBKLtgm — Brandon Montclare (@bmontclare) July 24, 2016 This is awesome news, representation matters!
Cop Keeps Job After Knocking Paraplegic Man From Wheelchair via Gawker In the video above, we see several Lafayette, Ind. police officers surrounding a man in a wheelchair. Nicholas Kincade slowly rolls forward and over the foot of one of the officers, and the cop reacts swiftly, thrusting an arm into Kincade’s neck and sending him toppling. “Whoa, what the fuck?”, Kincade yells as he falls to to the ground. “You do not drive over me,” the cop says. “Now you’re going to jail,” chimes in another. When the man claims he rolled over the foot by accident, an officer sarcastically replies, “Oh my god, right.” Earlier, Kincade entered the grounds of Lafayette’s Excel School and allegedly claimed he had a handgun in his backpack, ABC reports. (He didn’t, but he did have a pocketknife.) An internal investigation into Lt. Tom Davidson, the officer who pushed Kincade, concluded he had violated police department rules about “unbecoming conduct” and “response to resistance,” and recommended that he be fired. But Davidson got to keep his job. The Lafayette Police Civil Service Commission, a five-member civilian board, ruled that he had only violated the unbecoming conduct rule, and stripped him of his rank and gave him 30 days unpaid suspension and a year probation.
Nelsan Ellis, known to many as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s vampire drama, True Blood, has landed a new role. Ellis has been cast as Martin Luther King Jr. in the forthcoming film, The Butler, reports Deadline.com… Continue
Impressed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s aerial acrobatics while floating through the zero-gravity hallways of Inception ? You ain’t seen nothing yet: PopEater alerts us to Gordon-Levitt’s older brother (and dreadlocked doppleganger) Dan, who’s a fire-spinning flow artist. Head over there for an interview , and hit the jump for a clip of Dan in action:
True Blood has been teasing Sunday’s gay vampire love scene for weeks, but Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Todd Herremans was not a fan of the buildup. “Caught up on Trueblood,” he tweeted yesterday , adding, “Not a fan of how they get u hooked w/ 2 seasons then bring on barrage of homosexuality.” Needless to say, before Lafayette could roll his eyes and snap, “Hooker, please,” Herremans quickly apologized : “After speaking with Eagles management, I realize that my tweet earlier was insensitive and tasteless, and for this, I deeply apologize.” [ Deadspin ]
For the past three seasons, Breaking Bad ‘s protagonist Walt White has led viewers down a rabbit hole of greed, destruction and moral decay. Each season the character, who won Bryan Cranston back-to-back Emmys, found increasingly flimsy ways to rationalize his dangerous behavior. His career choice — manufacturing crystal meth — made him isolate his friends, endanger his family and kill his spirit in ways that smoking crystal meth could have never done. And in last night’s third-season finale, Walt burrowed deeper than viewers thought possible, making it clear that he will never find his way out. Click through for video, analysis of Walt’s descent and spoilers .
Much is made of True Blood’s willingness to push the envelope when it comes to sex and violence, but which does the show give more screen time to? Each week during the Movieline recap of HBO’ s vampire series, we’ll tally points for sexual content (sample activities: Jason Stackhouse getting laid again, or Pam lurking in the background with an outfit that makes her look like a rubber fetishist from a mid-90’s episode of Real Sex ) and violence (even a particularly vicious comment from Lafayette or Tara could count for this, depending on Arlene’s wounded, crumple-face reaction), then declare a winner. So who came out ahead in last night’s third season premiere?