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ELIZA DUSHKU WANTS TO BE WONDER WOMAN: You read it here first. Didn't you?

Here is my story, in today's Boston Herald, Wizard of awes: Fans Marvel at stars and more at Hub comics fest

Watertown native Eliza Dushku delighted fans yesterday when she said there was a Joss Whedon character she'd like to reprise even more than Faith, the action hero she played in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
"I hear Joss is doing this little movie called Wonder Woman. If he wants to call me up for that, I'd throw on the boots and the suit. I'd do that,'' Dushku said.
The 24-year-old actress already was wonderful in the eyes of thousands who turned up at Wizard World Boston, a pop-culture convention making its first-ever visit to the Hub. Fans waited in line for hours at the Bayside Expo Center to meet the expo's star attraction.
After taking her fiance's picture with Dushku, 28-year-old Amanda Jordan told Jim Butler, "You're engaged to me, not to her. You can't have her.''
Butler replied: "But she said I was cute.''
The Hadley couple bought some Buffy the Vampire Slayer action figures along with collectibles from Marvel Comics and Serenity. Meeting Dushku was "a happy coincidence,'' Jordan said. "We came for the action figures, but we were excited to find out she was here, too.''
For Dushku, the convention appearance meant a chance to come home and see family and childhood friends.
On Thursday, she said, she begins shooting a new movie, Nobel's Son. Next month, she starts rehearsals for an off-Broadway production, "Dog Sees God,'' that she calls exciting yet terrifying.
While a few souls attended the adjacent oddly timed "Red Sox Mania'' autograph show, thousands more soaked up the comic books, video games, anime, Star Wars costumes and more at Wizard World.
Pro wrestler Mick Foley has written seven books, but he said yesterday that most fans think of him for his exploits in the ring.
"It's a rarity when I see my novel at one of these things,'' Foley said.
He occupied a booth alongside Marvel Comics editor Joe Quesada, Kane Hodder (who played Jason in some Friday the 13th movies), Margot Kidder (Lois Lane in the Superman movies) and Lou Ferrigno (TV's Hulk).
Even Foley seemed amused by it all at an earlier show in Chicago.
"I went home and told everybody I sat next to Lois Lane,'' he said.
Wizard World Boston ends today.