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Friday Trending Topics: Rich Johnston's Audition Reel For The Wonder Woman Pilot

Published Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:57:48 -0500

Last updated Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:58:02 -0500

Lots of fooling around the comics internet today, both here and elsewhere, but for my money the funniest thing I've seen today is Rich Johnston acting out a scene from the Wonder Woman pilot script. Speaking of, Wonder Woman returned to BC Trending Topics in a big way, which is starting to intrigue me… because despite appalled reaction to both the pilot script and original costume, we all seem to be pretty damn interested in seeing how this turns out.

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And here are the audition videos of Tanit Phoenix and Rich Johnston, each of them acting out that very scene. This is the standard Ms. Palicki has to beat.