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Episode One: No More Good Days

We open the show in the aftermath of a plane crash, surely the boldest opening for a television show since Mork arrived in his egg, lo those many years ago. Dr Jack Shephard, [...]

As with all sensible non-showpony storytelling, Issue Two of this tale picks up straight where Issue One ended, namely with the Avengers and the JLA ready for some serious smackdown time. Oh, sure, there was a bit of a prologue with Krona and The Grandmaster, but I, like most sane comic book readers, skipped straight [...]

Are You There, Zod? It’s Me, Brian Austin Green
Doin’ The Robot
The Funk of Forty Thousand Smallville Episodes
Can You Read My Mind?
Mopey Dick
Let The Wacky Win
Jor Session
Ooh, And It Still Makes Me Wonder
Don’t Let The Sun Go Red On Me
Some Things Are Mentor B
Not Fit For Society and Still Not Fit For Society

Smallville Season Nine is [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]

For those who care about such matters (and, indeed, those who do not), the new season of Heroes has exploded onto screens everywhere (especially those screens screening the episode – other screens not so much). Equally, Morgan’s awesome recap of the same double episode opener has also exploded onto her blog. And comments? They’ve exploded [...]

Another week in which the beautiful people trundled over to this site via dubious keywords. Let’s see what we have this time around:

telepathic octopus species

Hmmm… don’t know of any telepathic octopi. But I do know that Starro the Starfish Conqueror (last seen in my recent JLA/Avengers recap) is a telepathic starfish. That’s pretty close – [...]

He showed up in the pilot to kill the pilot. At that point, we didn’t know much about the monster other than it had something against Greg Grunberg. Since then, we’ve learned a lot more about it. That it’s made of smoke for one thing. That it’s rather judgmental for another. It’s also able to [...]

Problem: Now that little shit of a kid is getting older, he probably no longer can reasonably be used as the justification for the ‘half man’ in the title.

Solution: Have him bitten by a werewolf, thereby becoming a half-man, half-wolf lycanthropic monster. Use best judgement as to whether or not to add a parenthetic ‘(plus [...]

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The team-up several decades in the making is finally here. Where ‘finally here’ means ‘back in 2003′. But, hey, I’m renowned for my scholarly analysis, not my timeliness. So here’s my recap a scant six years or so later. It’s a story of the team-up of the greatest heroes of two comic book companies, written [...]