Smallville #1 – Review

By: Bryan Q. Miller (story), Pere Pérez (art), Randy Mayor & Chris Beckett (colors)

The Story: Somebody save me…I don’t care how you do it…Just save…save…Come on…I’ve been waiting for you.

The Review: Smallville was one of those oddball, hybrid shows the WB tends to produce: a bit too weird and geeky to get mainstream appeal, yet not radically weird enough to achieve cult status with actual geeks.  It was a show centered around Superman mythology, and yet a lot of the times, what went on in the show had little to do with Superman.  Though I watched and enjoyed it at times, I can’t say I ever got invested in it.

Still, it didn’t surprise me when DC decided to go the Buffy/Angel route and spawn off a comic-book spin-off for the longest running Superman live-action series on television.  I probably never would’ve looked at it twice if Miller’s name wasn’t attached to the project.  I greatly enjoyed his lively, irreverent style of writing when he did Batgirl (featuring the unsinkable Stephanie Brown, whom I still miss every day), and since none of DC’s new 52 offer quite that same flavor of story, I decided to eat the sword and check out what Miller could do with the Smallville gang.