Comic-Con update: Stan Lee and Perry Moore host a gay comics panel, Barrowman's Captain America rumors, and more!

Right now, the biggest gathering of comic book readers and science fiction fans is happening in San Diego at Comic-Con International where geeks of many stripes binge on their hobbies and various entertainment companies try their damnedest to build the kind of buzz that makes or breaks projects.

At a Prism Comics panel yesterday focusing on "LGBT Portrayals in Comics" comics legend Stan Lee and Perry Moore announced a business partnership. The announcement was made before a standing-room-only audience who "exploded in applause as Lee entered the room, made his way to the dais and embraced Perry Moore."

I haven't been able to find details on the business partnership, but I'm looking forward to seeing what Moore develops with the comics legend. It's great to hear how accepting Lee is, though it's not entirely surprising. After all, back when he was taking superheros in a new direction at Marvel, he was breaking racial barriers in comics, seeing him continue to work for more inclusiveness feels like an apt continuation of his legend.

Meanwhile, at the Torchwood panel yesterday, it sounds like oft-bawdy John Barrowman hilariously tried to keep thing a little more all-ages, with Barrowman, Naoko Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd finding creative ways to talk around the pranks and silliness that happen on the set.

One interesting tidbit that came up at the panel was that Barrowman was considered as a possible Captain America for an upcoming movie. I have to admit, I can mentally cast Barrowman as Wonder Man or Hawkeye more easily, but those characters aren't in any upcoming movies (much to my — and many an Avengers fan's — disappointment). What do you think?

Bryan Singer and Neil Patrick Harris tidbits, after the jump!

At another panel out filmmaker Bryan Singer discussed the Battlestar Galactica revival he was at one time attached to. Before the current reboot airing on the Sci-Fi Channel, Singer was working on a sequel series for Fox. The network got cold feet about the pilot after 9/11 and Singer moved on to X-2. The news feels a little bit ironic, considering how the Galatica pilot that would later become a hit for The Sci-Fi Channel was itself a 9/11 allegory.

And then there's today's reason to be jealous of Comic-Con attendees (don't worry, they're paying for their fun by struggling to make it through the crowds and having to stand in long lines for panels): a screening of Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog with Neil Patrick Harris in attendance. Excuse me, I think I need to go off and seethe now.