Comments on: The Funniest Things About Smallville: Absolute Justice

By: Justin Mohareb

Justin Mohareb — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:29:40 +0000

Pam Grier’s performance reminded me of Rose coming back in Dr. Who. I knew they were capable of a better performance, and am willing to assume they had dental work before their shoot.

Either case, it was not a good example of either actor’s work.

By: danboman

danboman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:01:57 +0000

I was impressed with Brent Stait’s performance out of costume, but the whole time he was Dr Fate was very underwhelming. Shanks and Irving, though, really nailed their characters (even if the Hawkman voice was annoying). I’m shocked to see people praising Pam Grier…I thought she was absolutely the worst part of this episode, ever more so than Icicle.

Also, mgk, I’m disappointed you didn’t notice the reference to Radu’s in the very beginning.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:23:37 +0000

Darkseid will be a hobo whose “Omega Effect” is strangling people with his bare hands.

You know the Hobo Darkseid twitter? It will be exactly like that.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:16:12 +0000

You know, I hesitate to say this, but maybe Johns should be writing for TV instead of comics? Think about this: four million more people know who the JSA are now. Four million more people are aware of Hawkman, Dr. Fate, and Stargirl thanks to this episode. You can say what you will about the way those characters and brands were handled (…not great), and how cheesy Smallville is (definite truth), but hey, the show worked to make the JSA seem important.

What I’m saying is, Johns’ lame reverence actually works much better for TV when you’re trying to get a new concept across to people. As bad as Smallville is, that episode got across the major points about the JSA in a digestible fashion and made the group and characters appear significant. So that’s kind of a win, right?

Also, Pam Grier is such a great Amanda Waller. She needs more roles period.

However, what Johns needs is someone else to write his dialogue. Holy God some of those lines were awful. Purple, expository comic book dialogue only works on a page, and even then it takes a bombastic, winking personality of the Stan Lee variety to sell it.

I did catch a line I liked, though: Hawkman telling Green Arrow, “You don’t want anyone to know they’re important to you, so you act like a jackass.” Could’ve been tightened, but a nice, incisive remark that immediately reflects back on Hawkman. Wish the rest of the script had been that terse and relatively natural, especially the rest of the Arrow/Hawk bickering (ugh, Green Punching Bag).

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:21:03 +0000

WEll, after the Watchmen 2 news of last week, people wondered what Geoff John’s Watchmen would be like.

Now we know.

By: Dierna

Dierna — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:00:42 +0000

Lister:
The Black Panther toon has aired in Australia. It’s not that bad…it’s um…well…Juggernaut makes up for everything else in it. The X-Men are whiny (except for Storm who actually DOES something). The theme song is the best thing of the entire series. The animation is in between being a motion comic and regular animation.

As for Absolute Justice. I actually loved it. Pam Grier was perfect as Amanda Waller. My main complaint was Michael Shanks’ lame copy of Christian Bale’s Batman voice. oi! But hey we finally got Martian Manhunter in his TRUE form. If only for a brief moment.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/Dierna/Screen%20Shots%20and%20Promo%20images/MartianManhunter.jpg

By: marvinmartian

marvinmartian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:03:29 +0000

Just think how in the future we will fondly reminisce how Geoff Johns invented The Fourth World mythos for Smallville.

How happy we will be!

By: Grant Goggans

Grant Goggans — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:10:47 +0000

Actually, the funniest thing is that 4 million people watch Smallville and 50,000 read the JSA comic book.

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:58:07 +0000

Kal: The Black Panther cartoon is based off the Reginald Hudlin comics, being produced by Hudlin and shown on BET, the tv station Hudlin owns.

Basically Hudlin is going to ejaculate on paper and call it a Black Panther series.

i.e. It’s going to suck on toast.

By: kny789

kny789 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:53:10 +0000

Cracked me up almost as much as mgks post…

igns review http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/106/1067310p1.html

By: Skwid

Skwid — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:25:24 +0000

Smallville cracks me up, and I totally watch it for that. I am terrified of the idea, though, that there are people out there watching it who are belaboring under any preconception that it is good in any way.

By: VersasoVantare

VersasoVantare — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:07:08 +0000

Damn Dan, why you gotta hate your own kind?

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:54:15 +0000

That should have been, “When are we going to get around to flushing this fucking nerd Johns, once and for all?”

By: Kal

Kal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:12:20 +0000

Oh boy. The irony is that I hate anyone who is hating on this nice little gift in all our lives. Yeh, it was imperfect. Nothing ever can make everyone happy. But didn’t you all just find yourself smiling at so many points throughout it that anything ‘bad’ about it could be forgiven for once? Come on guys. If we stop all the bitchin’ we may just get more and more of these cool attempts and there will be one that will knock it out of the park for all of us. Do any of you remember when NOTHING like this existed anywhere other than the paper comic source material? There are so many things out there for a superhero fan from animated features, television cartoons (WOW to Black Panther, anyone??) and collected paperbacks? GAH! Stop it for once will ya?

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:21:32 +0000

Seriously comics, where are we going to get around the flushing this fucking nerd, once and for all?