The Lana Lang Series of Unfortunate Mishaps, Assaults, and Injuries – Smallville Comedy
Monday, September 29th, 2008I don’t know what’s more silly: the ridiculous level of abuse that the characters on Smallville suffer on a consistent basis, or the nutso amount of time that I spent scouring every episode of Smallville for all of the instances of those abuses so I could edit together these videos. Yeah. It’s me. I’m the [...]
Lex Luthor and his Long, Ridiculous History of Violent Injuries – Smallville Comedy
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Good thing Lex Luthor lives in the detached-from-reality comic book world of Smallville. Otherwise, by now his shiny, tender head would have roughly the consistency of chewed-up veal flank. He collects critical injuries like investment bank CEOs run their companies into the ground; that is, without any apparent long-term personal consequences. This kicks off a [...]
Five Pieces of Bad News Clark Will Get from the Future when the Legion of Super-Heroes Visits Smallville
Friday, September 5th, 2008The new producers of Smallville will clearly grasp at any fodder from the Superman mythology to fill the space left by recently-departed cast members. (No news yet on whether they’ll act on my five suggestions for handling the absence of Lex Luthor. But their obvious desperation can only work in my favor.) A panel at [...]
Five Suggestions for the Lex-Luthor-Free Eighth Season of Smallville
Friday, March 28th, 2008In recent seasons, Smallville has become a shallow, meandering, nonsensical, hollow-melodrama version of its former self. With a mild case of scurvy. Clark Kent and his best girl. And Lana Lang. And that’s before lead actors started abandoning ship. Now I really have no excuse for continuing to watch, other than my inexplicable and undying [...]
No Takebacks! The Top 10 Geek Events I Wish Never Happened
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Marvel Comics has apparently never heard of the “No takebacks!” rule, first popularized by third-graders in Pokemon card-trading circles, and more recently by President Bush, addressing the American electorate. (Warning: Potential spoilers ahead on the current Spider-Man One More Day storyline.) Way back in 1987, Marvel established a comic book milestone when Peter Parker married [...]
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