While the NBC sitcom Community may seem an odd choice to visit Comic-Con, it was fitting that star Donald Glover be a part of the event since fans on Twitter, Facebook and all over the Internet launched a campaign this spring for Glover to be the next cinematic Spider-Man. (Alas, it was not to be and the role was given to Andrew Garfield.) When asked if he has had time to comb the convention floor for another superhero to play on screen, Glover jokes, “I think I’m gonna go for Green Lantern. I know they’re making it already. I’ve worked out a way to kidnap Ryan Reynolds.” Since people have brought it up, Glover is open to the idea — “Who doesn’t want to play a superhero?” — yet he had some trepidation coming into Comic-Con after the Internet campaign on his behalf. “I was like, ‘Are people going to hate me? Am I going to be booed by nerds throwing iPhone cases at me?’ Like, ‘Leave me alone!’ ” he says, laughing. “But now it’s great. This is one of the only places in the world where people come together and celebrate their different loves. You could go to, I don’t know, a Lifehouse concert and everybody’s like, ‘We love Lifehouse!’ right? But here, it’s like, ‘We like Star Trek. We like Star Wars. You like that, that’s awesome!’ And that’s hard to find nowadays, and it’s a very special place because of that.”
