Yesterday we got a look at the design of Captain America's costume for the 2011 film. Coming off the heels of that, Collider has posted pics of the design for Thor (see the very bottom of this post), whose film is also coming out next year.

Comic book film adaptations' superhero costumes can be a tricky thing to nail. Existing in the real, physical world, as opposed to within comic book art, they often have to be altered to avoid looking silly. If you adapt the look too literally, you end up with costumes that look like this 1990 iteration of Cap:

Over the past several years, Marvel has had a number of continuity problems primarily in its film franchises. The biggest of these has been the mess that 20th Century Fox has made out of the X-Men films, with characters changing appearance from one flick to the next, and some being totally retconned to star in new movies that take a different approach to the character (like Deadpool). Fox isn't the only offender, though. We're also, as you probably know, going through a totally unnecessary reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, which Sony is in charge of.

However, there have recently been signs that Marvel is trying to get a handle on things, most notably in the way the company is planning its films around the 2012 release of The Avengers. Now the company suggests an intent to take another step in that direction as they announce the promotion of Editor in Chief Joe Quesada to the position of Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment. This position, Marvel states, entails "provid[ing] creative oversight of all areas of Marvel's business including theatrical, television, publishing, animation and games, while also actively participating in all story and script development for Marvel's films and animation." This is a position Marvel has needed for a while.

Now this is interesting. You may know that Marc Webb is eyeing Jamie Bell, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, Andrew Garfield, and Josh Hutcherson for the role of Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Sony’s upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise (via THR's Heat Vision blog). Well, in the wake of this report, io9’s Marc Bernardin has written an article positing that for their upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, Sony should not go for any of the aforementioned actors but should hire a black actor instead. In response to the article, reader Rootadoo commented that Donald Glover (of the TV show Community) would fill the role nicely. Then, Glover, who happens to be a Spidey fan himself, heard about the suggestion, decided it was a good idea, and started a Facebook campaign and a Twitter campaign to build support for him to score an audition for the role. Now io9, Glover's site, and virtually every other website with a post about the issue are bursting with some comment posts urging Glover on and others that range from innocent to flat-out racist arguments claiming that Spider-Man should under no circumstances ever be non-white.

Over the weekend, ComicBookMovie.com got a hold of the official plot summary for the 2011 Green Lantern film. There's not much here that most people familiar with the title wouldn't expect, but, as Rob Liefield let slip a while back, it does seem to place an emphasis on the cosmic nature of the Green Lantern Corps and the role Hal Jordan plays in their understanding of the human race. This is good, as it will differentiate the film from the majority of comic book adaptations and stay true to the Green Lantern roots.

Yeah, Tony Stark plays a good Iron Man, but what if the role was taken on by a baby -- a girl baby? Patrick Boivin sets out to answer that question in this little jewel of a video entitled, you guessed it, "Iron Baby." One day she's playing with a plastic book. The next, she's in an armored suit flying around, blowing away evil (but colorful) bunny rabbits, and giggling.

I’ll admit, when I heard that Taylor Lautner was going to star in the recently announced Stretch Armstrong film, I automatically considered it a wash. But that’s not fair to Lautner. As much as he exudes that overly confident "Oops there goes my shirt" male adolescence in the recent Twilight film (and I’m going purely by the trailers, here – I have not seen either of those movies), that is probably not his fault. That was the role he was given to play. Therefore, on that front, I’m going to give Stretch Armstrong or, more accurately, Lautner a chance. What doesn’t sound good by any measure, though, is screenwriter Nicholas Stoller’s plan to take a “realistic,” Iron Man-like approach to the movie.

Video game-to-film adaptations have a pretty miserable history, starting with Super Mario Bros. in 1993. Yet, whenever a new one is announced, video game and sci-fi fans can’t help but get excited, hoping the trend will be changed. Over the past several days, Deadline New York has reported that the PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain is going to be made into a film, and video game developer EA announced that Legendary Pictures (the company responsible for The Dark Knight and Watchmen, among other adapted and original works) will be making a Mass Effect movie. (Note that Heavy Rain, though not primarily a sci-fi game, does contain sci-fi elements). Despite the history they have to fight against, however, these movies might offer the industry a chance to break from its video game rut.

Have you seen Human Centipede yet? If so, and you're somehow not repulsed enough to shun anything bearing its title, or if you haven't, and you want to witness the next closest thing, check out Human Centipede, the Flash-based game.

Want to become famous for being a geek? Now's your chance. Morgan Spurlock, director of Super-Size Me, is making a Comic Con documentary, and he's looking for a few good men and women to be his subjects for the film. Pretty much the only requirements are that you're heading to San Diego Comic Con this year, you are in fact a geek to some extent, and you don't mind his cameramen following you around and filming you for the days leading up to and including Comic Con.