Super-Bad: The Day Costumes Killed the Justice Society

We checked in over at Smallville this week. Been a while since we stopped by, and boy, have things changed. Superboy -- d'ah, Clark -- still refuses to fly or wear the stretchy suit, but Lana's gone and Lois Lane, annoying reporter, is in, and Lex is 'dead' -- uh -- and there are so many characters from the DC Universe running around even veterans of the Comics Division of The Rush International need a scorecard to keep up ... especially when the versions we're seeing here are all funhouse-mirror versions of the characters we know and love.

It's the costumes, y'see. The costumes freak people out, including the producers. And the costumes in the recent episode called "Absolute Justice," starring Smallville versions of the Justice Society of America, including Hawkman, Dr. Fate, Stargirl, and others showed just how bad it could get.  The costume design for the episode pretty much ruined and otherwise promising premise by DC writer-superstar Geoff Johns. Get the details of what went wrong and just how wrong it went (which is filed under "Very"), with the full article in Contrariwise.