Justice Smallville of America
DC’s Source blog debuted a new trailer for Smallville‘s “Absolute Justice” two-parter, and it’s up above. Mainly it’s about Clark finding the old Justice Society of America headquarters and getting into everything (um, I certainly don’t know for sure, but should the Golden Age Green Lantern’s lantern just be hanging out like that?). I’m trying to be good and not knock Smallville, but every time I see Hawkman, my knee-jerk reaction is to mock. But rather than make fun of him, I want to try and figure out exactly what’s wrong with him. Is it that the helmet seems overly big? Is it the bird motif, that just doesn’t work as well in live-action than in the comics? Something else? I’m being serious. If you guys have any thoughts I’d love to hear them. Oh, and don’t forget there’ll be a TR live-blog for “Absolute Justice” when it aars on February 5th.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.