Batman? Superman? Equals? REALLY?

It's really been the dirty little secret of the DCU for, like, ever: could Bruce and Clark really be friends? A regular guy with a flying rodent fixation and an alien so powerful he can barely pretend to be human?

The guys over at College Humor get it.  They have reeled out the most honest speculation about The Friendship That Could Never Be. All we have to do is witness, brethren and sistren. Witness. And it also makes persistent fun of the climactic line of The Dark Knight that, frankly, honestly, we never really understood in the first place.

Okay, I forget now: can you guys breathe in outer space?  Or not?

 

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.