Geoff Johns is amazing – but I’m sure you all know that by now! He is featured in a “New York Times” article today where it talks about his current projects, including Smallville’s “Absolute Justice” movie event on February 5th.

You can read it here. Thanks to “sv_awareness” on Twitter.

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L to R: The Flash, Hourman, Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite & Wildcat

An animated version of the Justice Society of America will air on the Cartoon Network’s “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” on the January 15th episode, which comes at an ideal time, since the highly-hyped 2-hour “Smallville: Absolute Justice” movie airs on February 5th.

“They were basically Batman and Black Canary’s mentors,” says producer Michael Jelenic. “We see a little bit of them of from their heyday—in our world about the 1940s, although it’s not specifically stated. There’s a villain named Per Degaton, who they defeated [back then], who suddenly reappears in the present. And the aged Justice Society, with the help of Batman and Black Canary, now have to take him down before he dominates the world.”

Read the full article at TV Guide here.

It’s week five of Superman Wednesday Comics, a weekly collection of 15 newspaper-sized comic strips from DC Comics in USA Today.  The complete package is on sale every Wednesday for $3.99 at comic book shops.

In last week’s issue, Superman was feeling alone and that he doesn’t quite fit in.

To read today’s issue, check it out on USA Today here.

It’s week four of Superman Wednesday Comics, a weekly collection of 15 newspaper-sized comic strips from DC Comics in USA Today.

The complete package is on sale every Wednesday for $3.99 at comic book shops.

To read today’s issue, check it out on USA Today here.

It’s week three of Superman Wednesday Comics, a weekly collection of 15 newspaper-sized comic strips from DC Comics in USA Today.

The complete package is on sale every Wednesday for $3.99 at comic book shops.

In last week’s episode Superman began doubting whether he belonged on Earth.

To read today’s issue, check it out on USA Today here.

Okay, how ironic that I just posted the Aquaman trailer with Justin Hartley, because I could totally see him as Aquaman in the movie!  Also, a Bizarro Superman movie – now that would be cool!  Read below:

FIRSTSHOWING.NET:  The Hollywood Reporter has published an article looking at all of the DC Comics movies in the works and a bit of news about hiring on a few DC writers as consultants. It looks like DC might finally be setting up their game to compete with the ever-growing Marvel Studios.

Warner Bros has been changing the way they work with DC Comics over the last year. One part of that reorganization involved secretly hiring three of DC’s biggest comic book writers – Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison and Marv Wolfman – to act as consultants and writers for its superhero movies in the works. Johns, known best for his work on the on-going Green Lantern comics, has been working on a new version of a Flash script, that was first written by Dan Mazeau. Johns will also produce, but no director has been hired yet for that. The projects Morrison and Wolfman have been working on haven’t been revealed yet.

Here is a better look at exactly how these writers are involved, as they’re not just sitting on the sidelines.

The process involves one writer taking point, though the trio do collaborate on projects, reading one another’s materials while hashing out a story that will be at once accessible to nonfans yet still adhere to each character’s long history. The writers also work in tandem with producers, writers and the Warners execs overseeing the projects, showing them treatments and providing notes on scripts.

“The creative process is by and large a true partnership,” DC’s Gregory Noveck said. “They’ll ask us a ton of questions, and we’ll give a ton of answers. We will talk back and forth. We’ll discuss writers and talent, but ultimately it’s their decision.” Other DC projects that they’re developing include Aquaman and Adam Strange. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is developing the Aquaman movie, however, Warner Bros is still hearing pitches those two. There is also a Constantine sequel still in the works, a few Green Arrow projects like Super Max, and the Shazam movie that director Pete Segal has been attached to for a while.

Read the full article at FirstShowing.net.

It’s week two of Superman Wednesday Comics, a weekly collection of 15 newspaper-sized comic strips from DC Comics in USA Today.

The complete package is on sale every Wednesday for $3.99 at comic book shops. In last week’s episode, Superman was confronted by an alien in Metropolis.

To read today’s issue, check it out on USA Today here.

USA Today debuted the Superman strip from DC’s Wednesday Comics this morning in its print and online editions (read my earlier post here).  The Wednesday Comics web page sports a DC Comics logo and head shots of Superman, Green Lantern, Batman, Sgt. Rock and Wonder Woman. The brief article below the Superman comic includes a link to Diamond Comic Distributors’ Comic Shop Locator.

The New York Daily News also covers the launch of the 12-week miniseries, whose format and approach pay homage to the golden age of Sunday comics: The 16-page comic unfolds from 7 inches by 10 inches to 28 inches by 20 inches. Each of the 15 stories get its own 14-inch by 20-inch page.

“It’s either old-fashioned or it’s cutting edge, or it’s a little bit of both,” DC Comics Executive Editor Dan DiDio tells the Daily News.

To read today’s installment (above), go to USA Today here.

SOURCE: USA Today, Comic Book Resources

Since being announced that Brian Austin Green was cast in Smallville as Clark’s newest nemesis Metallo, I’ve been doing a bit of digging to find out more about the krypto-cyborg villain.  

There are a few different versions of Metallo…I provided a short summary of the most popular version below from DC Wikia, although it could very well differ from Smallville’s Metallo.  Check it out:

John Corben was in a terrible auto accident that nearly ended his life. Fortunately for him, he was discovered by scientist Emmett Vale who brought him back to his laboratory. Vale replaced all of Corben’s skin, bone and internal organs with cybernetic components and covered the frame in a Plastex sheathe. He also replaced his heart with an artificial pump powered by Kryptonite.

Powers

• Matter Absorption: Metallo can assimilate volumes of metal into his body in order to maintain a desired physical size.
• Mechanokinesis: At one point, Metallo was able to control robotic technology based on his modified hardware and have it act independently of his body. By doing so, he was able to construct robotic drone soldiers which responded to his commands.
• Metamorphosis: Metallo can morph his physical body into any form or shape that he desires. His only limitation is the quantity of mechanical mass available to him.
• Superhuman Strength: Metallo’s strength level is augmented by his cybernetic components.
• Energy Projection: One of Metallo’s lesser abilities, he can emit subtle waves of Kryptonite radiation from his eyes, and he can expose his Kryptonite heart, allowing the ambient radiation to bleed out into the immediate vicinity.

Strength level

• Metallo has superhuman strength

Weaknesses

• Metallo’s brain is one of the few biological components left in his body, and as such, represents his only true vulnerability. So long as his brain is intact, Metallo will always be able to generate a new body for himself.

It will be very cool to see Green as part of the Smallville panel at Comic-Con next month (Sunday, July 26th).  Hopefully we’ll hear soon which of the Smallville cast will be present for the panel.  As you recall, Smallville Executive Producer, Brian Peterson did mention we’ll get a sneak peek at the newest villains coming to Smallville at Comic-Con  (see my earlier post here).  So I guess we’ll find out more about Metallo and other villains making there way to Smallville for season 9 at the Con – can’t wait!

Okay, so this is not exactly a Smallville story or news, but what a great story it is!  A Brooklyn special education student who wrote an essay about his personal hero, his teacher, landed both him and his teacher a role in a Superman comic book. 

Thirteen year old Hakeem Bennet, an eighth grader at Public School 36 in Brooklyn, NY won the Stone Arch Books national essay contest that encouraged kids to write an essay about their real life heroes, and Hakeem chose his 8th-grade teacher, Matthew Brown.

“He’s a role model to me,” Hakeem explained. “He helps you if you need help with anything. He’s always there.”

Brown is blind in one eye and has tunnel vision in the other. Hakeem writes in his essay that the courageous way Brown lives his life, despite his disability, makes him a true hero.

The book is called “The Kid Who Saved Superman.”  The glossy, colorful book features Hakeem and Brown as characters and chronicles a school field trip that goes awry when earthquakes rumble through, trapping students in a mountain.  Superman shows up to rescue the students but needs help when he is weakened by Kryptonite.

Enter Hakeem, who saves the day.

Read the full article at the NY Daily News.