• FINALLY, Justice (no pun intended) is being served on Smallville and it looks totally AWESOME!!!

• Why the fuck would Doctor Fate need an ATM? HE'S DOCTOR FUCKING FATE.

• These costumes look ridiculous... but it's super-hero ridiculousness. :) It's about time "Smallville" gave up the mopey, emo Superman and gave us the guy in a red cape and blue tights. Sure, it's silly looking and ridiculous, but it's Superman!

• Does anyone else think that at least in the picture Stargirl's rod looks a little like a rod?

• I'm not all that familiar with Star Girl. Would it be fair to assume one of her powers is 'slouching'? Not that you can blame her, if I was in a costume created by the Smallville home for the blind, I'd try and keep a low profile as well.

• Fate looks decent. Hawkman looks off, not necessarily bad or good just wrong somehow. Star Girl's masks gives her a vaguely cro-magnon hottie kinda vibe. Although I have a strange feeling this episode is gonna involve time/dimensional travel, I hope I'm wrong though.

• Wow, that is...really...blue. And gold. The last guy I saw in a get-up quite that ludicrous was George Clooney, and he was flashing a Bat-Visa. I thought the point of Smallville was "even a person who is not a sane person would never dress like a goddamn comic book superhero". Picture these people in line at an ATM. Oh wait, they have no pockets, so where would they put the cash?

• My only complaints are the extra ribbing on Fate's costume, especially for a magic user, but I think it overall looks pretty good. Stargirl's mask bugs the hell out of me. It needs to be flatter. She looks like the kid from Mask with that bloated thing on. Yet the rest of the costume looks spot on and she has the freaking star rod. Really, considering it's a TV budget, this is pretty well done. I know CW's Supernatural has crap for a budget and Smallville has a good deal more, but still for superheros it's pretty low.

• ok who let the chicken from family guy out of the tv set O_o (fridge , i know it was you ) that image of stargirl and fate , dude she is seriosly giving me : "THIS LAME COSTUME had better jumpstart my career or else im killing my agent !" aint her suit supposed to be air tight , like canary's or lana's ?? WTF happened to it *goes to his happy place , aka JESSICA ALBA IN the sleeping dictionary// nude scene galor//*

• It's also how you wear it, too. StarGirl isn't filling the boots in that shot, as it were. Posture, girl, posture...

• Yeah, I see your point about it not fitting the established world of the show. Just figures that this would be the place where we finally get some honest-to-goodness superhero duds.

• Hold on a tick, Did you say Michael Shanks? As in "Dr Daniel Jackson Stargate SG1,Michael Shanks"? WHOAH! Erica Durance already had a guest spot on SG-1 now Shanks,is on Smallville! =O I am officially starting a petition to Bring Garry Chalk on as Highfather in a New Gods-Darkseid inspired Smallville episode. :-B

• Exactly. Shit just doesn't look right for the established world of the show.

• That was very clever of them to make Hawkman look like one of Prince Voltan's troops. I can hear Blessed bellow "DIVE", just looking at it =D

• Fate looks ridiculous too. A magic user wouldn't have an outfit made of that material. And the helmet is just silly.

• heh, because of all these posts on the JSA in smallville, i actually started watching smallville for the first time. im enjoying it, but i have to hide it from my flatmates...

• Why, after all these years, am I finally somewhat interested in Smallville?!

• I like that they're trying to "stay true" to the source material, but that's a fine line to walk. Sure Dr. Fate looks like Dr. Fate, but his costume doesn't look "real". Fate's helmet and amulet are metal, gold I believe, and here they look like junky plastic. And anyone whose read my postings at other sites on this subject already knows might gripe with his gloves, they look like the gloves you would wash the dished with.

• Well at least Dr Fate looks awesome and in this version Hawkman is also kicking Green Arrow's ass. That is a good start :) But the Hawk costume still looks poorly done, like it is from a Z grade movie. The maze look plastic, the feathers weird, and this Carter Hall seems undernourished. Poor thing! Give him a Whooper pronto! And in Smallville, Stargirl is known as Lamp Girl?

• Love, love, love it. Obviously. :)

• I still dont get the bitching. Those costumes look like the characters have looked in the comics for 60 goddamn years-whats not to like? And as for them looking "cheap"...well,this is a TV show. Most TV shows have a budget thats just barely above that of a fanfilm,and its a safe bet that at least half of Smallvilles budget goes to make-up to keep Tom Welling from looking like he's 40. Cut 'em a little slack and just be thankfull they didnt go the hoodies and leather trench-coat route...

• See what happens when a writer that has a clue about comics writes Smallville? Instead of whiny emo characters written for shut-in housewives, you've got Hawkman doing what he does naturaly - namely, beating the stuffing out of the pinko Green Arrow.

• That is awesome.

• THis makes me want to give Smallville another shot. Maybe!

• I made fun of him (or his stargate character) on a message board and got an angry mail/death threat of said girl. The resulting dialog went something like this: "take that back or i'll kill you" "Yeah right..." "Come here and see if you dare!" "ok" We met and..well lets just say that when you change a single syllable you can turn a german phrase from "to get killed" into "to get laid".

• Now, I have never seen Smallville, but this makes me want to watch it. Seriously, one of the reasons I never watched it is because they never had any of the characters as they appeared in the comics. This is awesome. Seriously. How can any true comic fan not like this? It's about as good as we are going to get on a TV show.

• I thought it was a lamp before i realized it was the rod.

• The biggest gripe I have about Hawkman is that he's just too thin. I've always imagined Hawkman as Conan with wings, and this guy is just too small. The Stargirl costume looks kinda lame, but you have to admit that it is the same one as in the comics. And how much can you really complain about a cute blonde showing off her tight belly? I'm wondering if they're ever going to have a Bruce Wayne cameo. Doc

• I think I'm most disappointed in the Cosmic Rod. It's clearly based on Jack Knight's, but without any of the detailing. It looks like the props team assembled it on the cheap with materials from Home Depot.

• Man I'm tired of hearing this argument. If you're familiar with Smallville you know that they have for years been going about not using the typical costume associated with the comic. They've established a look for their universe. By not tweaking the costumes a little bit so it doesn't look ridiculous compared to the already established "hero costumes" already used on the show is pretty retarded. Green Arrow is wearing like padded leather and Stargirl is wearing some clothes she picked up at The Gap. IN the context of it, it deserves ridicule.

• Yeah, it amazes me that comic book fans have been complaining about not getting real superhero costumes on-screen for years, yet when Smallville does it, there are a ton of complaints about how ridiculous it looks. Make up your minds, people!

• Wait, how did Michael Shanks help you get laid?

• Wow Stargirl looks really disappointing. she's wearing basic cotton how the crap is that gonna protect you from a fall. they coulda leathered her up a bit. Also what's the deal with her mask?

• I've never seen an episode of Smallville, but I will watch this one. I like the costumes myself...superhero costumes with COLOR! Thank God they are not all black.

• Yes Michal Shanks costumes looks stupid And yes he is not a great actor but like I said before..I own him one. Thanks to him I had a lot of sex with a hot blond chick who was into light bondage for over a year, so i beg you once more, don't make too much fun of him. He has done so much for me.

• They still look incredibly ridiculous, but at this point I'm assuming it's intentional. And at least we actually get to see some Superheroes in the show doing superhero-ey things. Either that, or all the characters will just dramatically stare at each other for an hour. If past episodes are any indication, it'll be the latter, but with Geoff Johns writing there might actually be an interesting story.

• I love that you can see the plastic imprint line on Hawkman's mace. His feathers are a total mess too. Very sad.

• It's actually kind of sad to see that Smallville's costume designers can do such a great job on real superhero costumes, yet rarely get the chance. See, Batman and X-Men movies, superhero costumes can actually have color and look great!

• No one looks goofier than Tom Welling in his Neo costume for Halloween-- Wait, that was in the show? And it wasn't a special Halloween episode? Superman's name in Smallville is The Blur? Right. And Hawkman is the one who should be embarassed. ;)

• nice to see the creators are trying to be true to doctor fate as they can even though the gold is making him a little cartoony he looks good. and looks like green arrow is going to rub hawkman the wrong way.

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