Good news today for Whedonistas: according to The Hollywood Reporter, Dollhouse & Firefly alum Summer Glau has signed on for NBC's upcoming superhero drama The Cape.

The show will star David Lyons as Simon West, a disgraced ex-cop who adopts a secret identity - the eponymous Cape - in order to clear his name.

The story says that Glau will play Orwell, "a cute and intrepid investigative blogger who fearlessly goes after corrupt cops and costumed bad guys." As handles go, Orwell is a pretty good one to pull out.

Oh, and don't fret - THR also reports that Orwell won't have a problem handling thugs physically, and not just on THA INTERWEBZ.

So what do you think of Ms. Glau's new gig?

by El Secreto

CBR just unveiled a look at Marvel's newest team, the Young Allies, who are set to debut in June. So far, I'm digging the line-up: the new Nomad in the lead; Araña; writer Sean McKeever's own creation, Gravity; longtime second-banana Firestar; and the new Toro, whose origins as an undocumented immigrant from Colombia might prove problematic, but let's wait and see how that plays out.

What I'm more interested to see, to be honest, is where it fits among the suddenly cluttered landscape of young heroes in the Marvel 'verse. Assuming they're not folded into the upcoming Avengers Academy, you've got the New Warriors, the Runaways, the Young Avengers and the former Initiative kids running around, and still no indication - in canon or otherwise - of how the Super-Human Registration Act is going to factor into everybody's life in this new Heroic Age.

And on a bigger level, I'm concerned about this team because of something I brought up on this week's episode: call it Teen Titans Syndrome. At some point, creating young heroes without allowing them to fully mature into the true Next Generation, or, ret-conning older heroes so as to not make them "too old" traps the young'uns in a state of perpetual adolescence. How crazy is it, for example, that it took nearly three decades for nearly all of the George Perez-era Titans to finish getting even abbreviated runs in the Justice League? Are we prepared for Rikki Barnes there to become a full-time Avenger in 2020? Or would you like to see these kids move up to the big leagues sooner?