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Smallville fans are all agog at the news that a whole mess of DCU characters including Hawkman, Sandman and Stargirl are going to be paying a visit to the surprisingly eventful and cosmopolitan Kansas farm town in the near future.

Ooh.. agog. If this show makes it to season ten, how cool would it be if Magog was the Big Bad? As long as he wasn’t played by some douchey soap opera star - and as long as his costume isn’t designed by whoever decided to make Hawkman look like a patron at an S&M bar. Cause let’s face it, Magog is already pushing the envelope pretty far in that department.

I’m very excited to see the Justice Society coming to Smallville, even though it completely takes any pretense of continuity - not just with the comics universe, but with Smallville’s own previous eight seasons - and flushes it down the toilet.

Continuity is a burden. Just accept the fact that Wolverine is in Madripoor, Germany, Russia, New York, Thunderbolts Mountain and on the Moon at the same time. How is it possible? Because it’s f**kin’ escapist fiction, that’s how.

But I digress.

I’m all for bringing as many superheroes to screens big and small, as long as its done well. And I applaud Smallville’s producers for having the good taste to not feature Ghettoman, the unbelievably offensive “hero” who was a part of the action the last time this many DCU heroes were together for a live-action program: the so-bad-its-great “Legends of the Superheroes”.

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• Overheard on the news: “Will we ever see George Lucas direct a musical? The answer, after sports and weather!” #
• Well, that was worth the wait: Talking head-caster: “George, do you think we’ll ever see you direct a musical?” George: “Um, no.”
• For the Richard Gere fan on your XMas list: NYTimes: A Hamster Is the Season’s Hottest Toy #
• #metalocalypse does not disappoint - 90 seconds into the episode and I’m gagging in horror. #
• Wow, DC just can’t stop pissing on the old Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League, can they? It’s like an addiction. http://j.mp/8ZRChh #

• Raise your hand if you think the new Batgirl series is ready to be put out of it’s misery. #batman #comics #
• Yay, something to distract me from my family! - Boomerang to Revisit Classic Thanksgiving http://j.mp/7xy18j #
• #musicmonday Bedroom Walls - Do the Buildings and Cops Make You Smile? Also Patti Smith, Jim Carroll and #dethklok “Hamburger Time”. Clearly my brain is set on “shuffle”. #
• Huh. Nickelodeon = Viacom = MTV/VH1. The TMNT are now brought to you by the same company that created “Flavor of Love”. #

Dethklok: It’s Hamburger Time!

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A few weeks back I commented on the ages-old feud between Marvel’s demigods Thor and Hercules, and noted that, at their fathers’ behest, the two had been at one another’s throats -

or other body parts -

from the day they met.

I underscored my point with a video clip of the Titan’s first clash, back when Thor was part of Marvel’s line-up of televised stills shown in slow succession that could generously be referred to as animation.

We’ve come a long way since then - Thor and Herc have (for now) reached peace and even a mutual admiration of sorts, and after one kick to the Golden Apples too many they have come to accept that their rivalry is irrational and needs to be worked out through self-understanding and perhaps some assistance from the Greek god of therapy, Lexaprosis. And Marvel’s animation is now powered by billion-dollar Disney computers and a legion of writers, who somehow make shows which are far less entertaining than the old shoestring budget ‘toons of the ’60s. Huh. Well.

Anyway, I only showed the first half of the battle, thinking it would help to illustrate my point. Little did I guess that the people would be left clamoring for more - for hot god-on-god battle action, for the second half of the episode.

Verily, ’tis my bad. I grant thee they request, fair mortals. Gaze in wonder upon the epic battle of Thor vs. Hercules - Part 2!

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THOR HAMMER

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• Here he is - #smallville’s Hawkman, as portrayed by Michael Shanks. Very “Village People”. http://j.mp/6kTC5X #
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• Why do all junior #xmen wear giant gloves? Is it a fashion thing, or does crime-fighting give you carpal tunnel? http://j.mp/6mcdFn #
• Namor + Namora = creepy. Atlantean hillbilly inbred extra-retard babies in their future. http://j.mp/8gQTUi #
• Namor: Whats that word the surface dwellers use? Ah, yes - “badunkadunk”. http://j.mp/6M5L7C #
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Namor: Cousin, shmousin. It’s international waters baby, anything goes. What, incest is weirder than being a fish-person? Get over yourself!

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• So has #dexter learned enough life-lessons that he can get on with it and finally dismember John Lithgow this week? I’m ready for some closure. #
• #thingsIwouldtell12yearoldme Don’t worry, everything will work out fine. Nah, I’m just f&@kin with ya! Haha you are so gullible! #
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• #blackestnight - zombie Alex Luthor sums up the Internet all too accurately. #comics http://j.mp/8a5b6q #
• OK is someone spreading rumors that I’m president of NBC? I have like 50 new followers who won’t stop telling me shit their dad says. #
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• Yikes awk-ward - NY1 Newscaster “Many have noted my co-anchors absence - he has been convicted of a domestic abuse case involving his wife”. #
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OK so tonight’s Batman: The Brave and the Bold season premiere episode was pretty sweet - ironically, the animated series is infinitely better than the most recent incarnation of the classic comic from which it takes its name. The current volume of the Brave and the Bold has re-defined “lame” from issue 1, and with this weeks cover, it has reached an apotheosis in lame-ness.

That’s right, apotheosis. It’s a word. Look it up, you’ll en-smarten yourself.

Anyway, as nice as it is to have a decent Batman show back on the air, everybody knows that cartoon heaven happens Sunday nights at midnight, when we get new episodes of the Venture Bros.

Here’s a quick look at this week’s new Venture episode, Self-Medication.

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Ms. Hand learns that it’s not always cool to be ballsy.

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