If you love the classic What If? title way back when, then you are in for a treat this December. We get 5 new What If stories for the holidays… “What if Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man and Wolverine became Fantastic Four after the originals died?” “What if Iron Man died instead of Captain America?” “What If Mary Jane Had Been Shot Instead Of Aunt May?” “What if Dr. Doom won the Secret War?” “What if Scarlet Witch had ended the HOUSE OF M by saying “NO MORE POWERS!”

There are actually SIX stories if you count each issues chapter of the 5-part back-up story… a “What if the Runaways became the Young Avengers.”

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Apparently someone at SDCC asked John Barrowman (Torchwood’s Captain Jack Harkness) if there was a chance of him taking on the role of Steve Rogers in the upcoming Captain America feature film (First Avenger: Captain America). Barrowman said he would love to play Cap as he is a longtime fan of the character. He even admitted he’d been in meetings with his agents about the role.

I was pleasantly surprised that most of the fanboy commentary on the article seems not to mind that he is an openly gay actor. They seemed to have a bigger problem with him being Scottish (he was born in Scotland, but raised from age 8 in Illinois - hence his excellent American accent). Don’t they know Christian Bale is Welsh? I hope he gets serious consideration for the part, or at least some adoring attention from Hollywood. I think he’s a great actor (I TOTALLY love Torchwood - have just the last episode from Season 1 left to watch) and a very sexy man. Plus it would make a great statement on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” to have an openly gay actor portray Captain America.

The only problem with it is, I just don’t see Hollywood taking that casting risk for an actor who is “big in the UK,” but still relatively unnoticed in the US. Maybe the SciFi channel will pick up Torchwood and make him more of a household word.

A few excerpts from “The Making Of Me,” a recent BBC documentary on the origins of homosexuality that was viewed by 3.8 million people.

And John Barrowman and Kevin Kline singing “Night and Day” from De-Lovely.

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I am SO hoping that this is the real thing… Steve Rogers alive and well. But, Captain America fight people who shoot at him with machine guns. I don’t think the real Cap would be taken down by Savage Land natives with blowdarts. As much as I don’t want it to be so, my guess is he’s a Skrull.

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Steve Rogers landed on the cutting room floor. It was reported last week that Captain America has a cameo in The Incredible Hulk. But alas, his appearance was part of an especially dark portion (Bruce heads to the “Arctic Circle in a Frankenstein-esque trek to kill himself” but meets Captain America there instead. Leterrier said the Cap footage will make it online and be part of the DVD release. I’ll add video or stills here if either becomes available.

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