The Big Bang Theory icon has really tried to join a comic book franchise.

Among the many new project announcements coming out of AFM this year, some undoubtedly sound more promising than others, and As Sick As They Made Us is one of the more intriguing ones. The comedy-drama, as reported by Deadline, will be the directorial debut of Mayim Bialik, who also wrote the script. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, Bialik played the lead in Blossom as a teen, and Sheldon Cooper’s love interest, Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory. Curiously enough, the real life Bialik holds a PhD in neuroscience and has published four books. …

With The Big Bang Theory behind them--even as the residuals roll in for years to come--series stars Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik are setting their sights on another TV project. Fox has picked up the half-hour comedy series Carla, a redo of one of the top-rated BBC series of the last decade, Miranda, from creator/star Miranda Hart. As Deadline reports, Bialik will star in Carla as the title character who opts to use the money her parents saved for her wedding in order to open a cat cafe in Louisville, Kentucky, as you do. She'…