Things We Saw Today: How Video Game Makers Design Characters

Things We Saw Today is going to be picture lite today. I guess maybe it’s Things We Read Today. (chart from I Love Charts, via mental_Floss.)

• Make a note here: fully twenty-seven different items of Portal themed jewelry. (Girl Gone Geek.)
• A list of the most hardcore geeks (scientists, convicted hackers, programmers, and mathematicians) to be the female lead in a romance novel. (Heroes and Heartbreakers.)
• CNN, of all people, wants to hear from you if you’re a woman who feels that science fiction has had an impact on her life. We expect you all can help out with that, but you’ve gotta do it by tomorrow! (Thanks Megan!)
• Saturday and Sunday this weekend, DC Comics are having a sale on a wide digital selection of classic and recent Wonder Woman comics. If you’ve ever wanted to get a good introduction to Wonder Woman without shelling out too much money or hunting for back issues, now just might be the time. DC Women Kicking Ass has a guide of what to pick up.
• Slightly more concrete stuff about what might be included in HBO’s American Gods series, from Neil Gaiman himself:

“I’ve been [planning] to do a second ‘American Gods’ book since the first ‘American Gods’ book,” he laughed. “What I basically have right now is a boxful of stuff. Things go into it. I always knew there was going to be more story.

“The first book was very much about the grifters and the lowlifes, and you don’t really get to see much of the new gods and you don’t really get a sense of those gods who are doing incredibly well in America,” he said. “In the second book, I definitely want to go into both of those things.”

Read the whole interview at MTV.

• Did DC replace an issue about Superman teaming up with an American-Muslim superhero with a five year old unpublished story about Krypto the Superdog at the last minute so as not to invite more “Superman renouncing citizenship” level bad publicity before their relaunch? Comics Alliance presents a very convincing case.