Smallville #2 – Review

By: Bryan Q. Miller (story), Pere Perez (art), Chris Beckett (colors)

The Story: In which the 1% find that you can’t occupy a building if it’s in space.

The Review: I feel very safe in saying that Smallville (the TV series) disappointed nearly every one of its devoted fans when it ended without a single, concrete image of Tom Welling in the cape and tights.  After all the time invested in the show, the only appropriate reward would’ve been seeing Clark take on the heroic guise he was destined to take.  No wonder this title sported a big, splashy cover with a photo-realistic Welling in complete blue get-up on its debut.

In the same way, while Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor had some strong storylines—and make no mistake, he was consistently one of the best things to come out of that show—he never got the chance to engage in those grandiose plots his incarnation in the comics became famous for.  Here, Miller cleverly uses the show’s continuity to bring Luthor to that next level of ambition, where he becomes, in his father’s words, “extraordinary.”