Smallville Giveth, and Smallville Taketh Away
When I last reported on Smallville‘s two-part, Geoff Johns-written, JSA-featuring special episode called Absolute Justice, I was shutting the hell up. After making fun of a few of the costumes, The CW finally released a trailer which, while it might just be a well-made trailer, made it look awesome. I figured I owed it to ’em to stop ragging on it. But then, several days ago, The Nerdy Bird — of Has Boobs, Reads Comics fame — found a promotional poster for Absolute Justice, and, well, look:
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?How this thing isn’t a direct-to-VHS movie from 1994 is beyond me. It looks like a spin-off from Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four. I feel like Clark’s going to start talking about how the real power comes from Jesus or something. I hope to god the trailer is more accurate than the poster, because otherwise, we’re gonna be in for a rough two hours when I live-blog Absolute Justice beginning at 8pm EST on February 5th.
Oh, and I would be a cad and a bounder if I didn’t take this opportunity to mention that the Nerdy Bird, the lovely Ms. Jill Pantozzi, has a new column on TR‘s sister site Heartless Doll, titled, “Hey, That’s My Cape!” If you’d like to read someone who knows what they’re talking about re: comics (for a change), check it, would you?
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.