A few Smallville news bytes today:

1.  A new BTS promo picture from the episode, 8.13 “Power” has been added to the gallery featuring Allison Mack. Thanks to “ChloisOrg” on Twitter for the image.

2. The 2-hour “Absolute Justice” Smallville television event will air again on a special night – Thursday, May 20th (via “WBNX-TV The CW“). So mark your calendars!

3.  Check out the following Smallville articles:

- “Where is our Wonder Woman Smallville?” at io9.com
- “Remembering Early Smallville” at SciFiNow

4.  James Marsters (Brainiac) has been tapped to play Steve McGarrett’s reoccurring arch-nemesis in CBS’ Hawaii Five-O pilot. Read the article on “ScreenRant” here.

5.  Sam Jones III (Pete Ross) attended Radar Online’s one year anniversary party on March 10th. Check it out at “Life.com” here.

6.  And finally, I added a couple of awesome fanmade Smallville videos by “YouTube friend”, “SkullSkar”. Check it out on the right sidebar, and be sure to visit his channel here on YouTube.

Two new BTS promo pictures featuring Tom Welling and Allison Mack from 8.13 “Power” have been added to the gallery.

Thanks to “Mundo Smallville” for the images.

Image courtesy of Comics Alliance

Smallville “Legion” and “Absolute Justice” writer, Geoff Johns teased the return of “JSA” at the end of this season. Johns, who attended a Q&A session at the Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle, Washington earlier this afternoon had this to say:

Geoff Johns on seeing the JSA outside the comic: “They do appear again at the end of season on ‘Smallville.’ The hope is for every DC character to appear outside the comic book. Correctly.”

Read the full article at “Comics Alliance” here. Thanks to “SV_Awareness” via Twitter for the heads up!

The official episode description for 9.16 “Escape”, airing on Friday April 2nd:

“SMALLVILLE” — (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)
“Escape” (CONTENT RATING TBD) (HDTV)

DC COMICS’ CHARACTER SILVER BANSHEE INTERRUPTS A ROMANTIC GETAWAY FOR LOIS AND CLARK — Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois (Erica Durance) head out of town for a quiet romantic getaway, but their plans are thwarted when they run into Chloe (Allison Mack) and Oliver (Justin Hartley) at their Bed & Breakfast Inn. The couples’ awkward moment is interrupted by the arrival of the Silver Banshee (guest star Odessa Rae), who sets her sights on Clark and Oliver. Meanwhile, Tess (Cassidy Freeman) faces off with Zod (Callum Blue) with a surprising result. Kevin Fair directed the episode written by Genevieve Sparling (##3×5266).

SOURCE: SpoilerTV

Smallville composer, Louis Febre talks Smallville with “Talk Geek” on BlogTalkRadio.com. In the 45-minute audio interview, Febre discusses what has gone down in season nine, and also chatted with the fans about the show.

Listen to the audio interview at “BlogTalkRadio” here.

SOURCE: Superman Homepage

There isn’t much going on in Smallville land today. I’ve gathered up a few tid-bits throughout the day:

1.  As I tweeted last night, we tuned into “CSI NY” Wednesday night to catch Kyle Gallner’s (Impulse/Bart Allen) guest star appearance on the show. I was surprised and delighted to see Aaron Ashmore (Henry James Olsen) also make an appearance! It was nice seeing both Smallville alums back on the tube again.

2.  Catch Alaina Huffman (Black Canary) in the new trailer for “Stargate Universe” here, which will debut the second half of season one on “SyFy” on April 2nd.

3.  Erica Durance and Cassidy Freeman are both listed on KTLA’s “The Hotties of The CW”. Check out the full photo gallery here.

4.  “Yellow Brick Road”, starring Cassidy Freeman will be playing at the Atlanta Film Festival on April 19th & 20th. For more information, go to Yellow Brick Road’s official site here.

5.  Smallville is mentioned on The CW’s WBNX site regarding season ten:

“Smallville will need only 19 episodes next season (a full order is typically 22) to surpass Stargate SG-1 as the “Longest Consecutive Running Sci-Fi TV Show in U.S. History,” a milestone registered in the Guinness World Records book. Stargate finished its ten year run with 218 episodes.”

The latest scoop from EW’s Ausiello – check it out:

Question: Any juicy tidbits for the rest of the season on Smallville? —David
Ausiello: Clark and Zod will have an inevitable (and rather spectacular) showdown before the end of the season. And look for Lois and Perry to team up on the Kandorians story.

SOURCE: EW

An audio interview with Smallville executive producer, Brian Peterson, a season ten wish list, and a Smallville writer and producer tweets “Sacrifice”, and Smallville is mentioned in a LA Times article this morning.

1.  Check-out an audio interview at “EarthsMightiest.com” by Smallville executive producer, Brian Peterson which was conducted shortly before “Absolute Justice” aired on February 5th.

In the interview, Peterson discusses how this season embraces the Superman mythology, Absolute Justice, bringing back past Smallville cast/characters, introducing Amanda Waller & Checkmate, and finally when we will likely see the Superman costume.

Listen to Peterson’s audio interview here.

2.  “IGN” has a list of what they would like to see in Smallville next season – read it here.

3.  Smallville writer and producer, Al Septien briefly tweets about episode 20, “Sacrifice” this morning:

“Buenos Dias. a shout out to director Kevin Fair (ODYSSEY, TURBULENCE, ROULETTE, ESCAPE, etc) as he begins work today on SACRIFICE”

4.  “Smallville” and “Tom Welling” are mentioned in a “LA Times” article this morning titled, “Christopher Nolan Takes Flight With Superman: We Have A Fantastic Story”. Read it here.

5.  Just a reminder that Kyle Gallner will be guest starring in CSI NY tonight on CBS at 10/9c.

A new article on “CrunchGear.com” is stating that Smallville MUST not be allowed to break Stargate SG-1’s world record:

We MUST stop this. Somehow Smallville must be canceled before it surpasses Stargate SG-1 and becomes the longest running Sci-fi show in North America’s history.

Read the full article here.

I added 8-more LQ season eight promo pictures of the lovely Smallville ladies to the gallery. There are two different frame versions, so be sure to check it out under “Episode Promo Photos”.

Thanks to “Mundo Smallville” for the images!