Things We Saw Today: John Barrowman Reenacts Death Scene With Cosplayer

John Barrowman, international treasure. (Tor.com)

• Scientists have created a computer that makes jokes, so comedians, you are all now required to be better than this computer. The fate of humanity depends on you making better jokes than “I like my women like I like my gas … natural.” (The Frisky)
• Here’s the press event where several respected veterans of the comics industry said some very tin-eared things about efforts to create more equitable gender and race representation in comics that Jill and Susana have been tweeting in regards to all day. (ThinkProgress)

Okay, just don’t let this Iron Throne anywhere near the actual Iron Throne. (Neatorama)

• And now, two deaths: Margaret Pellegrini, one of the last surviving actors to play a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz,
• and Cosmo Allegretti of Captain Kangaroo. (The Hollywood Reporter)

The director of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters has made some adorable comics about what it was like having Nathan Fillion on set. (Comic Book Resources)

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