Forget Jason Stackhouse, This ‘True Blood’ Hottie Will Have Our Undivided Attention This Sunday

Meet Joe Manganiello, the newest addition to the "True Blood" crew. We like him because he could probably beat the shit out of any of the other very fit male cast members, and look damn good doing it.

Who is it that originally decided that all vampires are supposed to be thin model types and that all werewolves are supposed to be buff, anyway? If the casting in the Underworld films, the "Twilight" films and now "True Blood"'s third season are to be believed, then vampires are a bunch of slender, effete little wussies and werewolves are a little more… butch. In a weird way this serves as a sort of supernatural mirroring of the twink/bear dichotomy—vampires are the pretty boys we want to marry and werewolves are the monsters we want to fuck—but in this case both of them will probably eat you.

Now let's face it, on screen, the battle between an actor like Taylor Lautner (who plays a werewolf in the "Twilight" series) and someone like Robert Pattinson (who plays a vampire, duh... Does anyone not know this?) over…whatever may be an epic super-powered martial arts extravaganza. But if the two ever got into a real-world brawl (a gay can dream, can't he?), the amazingly muscular Lautner could literally and very easily wipe the floor with the comparatively twee Robert Pattinson. This puts us squarely on the side of Team Jacob in all "Twilight"-related squabbles.

Now, sure, not everyone has a sex drive that's guided by pure, unassailable logic like our own. But when deciding between two more or less equally pretty men, we'll always go for the guy who wins in the cage match. And obviously there will be a cage match, because we like guys who can beat other guys up. It's just common sense.

· Joe Manganiello: Shirtless & True Blood Ready! (justjared.buzznet.com)