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Glen Weldon Glen Weldon is a regular panelist on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He also reviews books and movies for NPR.org and is a contributor to NPR's pop culture blog Monkey See, where he posts weekly about comics and comics culture.
A Series T-800 Robot in Terminator Genisys. Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount Pictures/Skydance Productions hide caption
Daryl Hannah in Sense8. Murray Close/Netflix hide caption
Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky and Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. Jasin Boland/Warner Bros. hide caption
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Along with Colton Dunn (L), Harris Wittels (R) played a bumbling member of the Pawnee animal control team on the show he co-executive-produced, Parks And Recreation. Ben Cohen/NBC hide caption
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The cover of The Tick, one of many -- 57, in fact -- comics you may be able to snag at no charge on Saturday, Free Comic Book Day. Fantagraphics hide caption
Former Miss Israel and Fast & Furious actor Gal Gadot has been cast as Wonder Woman in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
Short story author Alice Munro, seen here in Dublin in 2009, won the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Her stories often touched on a less obvious form of evil. Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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