WHAT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
whether you knew it or not

This week I finally got the haircut I've been threatening to get for years now. My apologies to all those of you who kept this at bay for all my college years. YOU'LL GET OVER IT.







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A tv series that has caught my eye, again - Smallville. The idea of the story of the adolescent Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman, sort of interested me from the first considering he was my childhood favorite super hero. Had the original action figure that's now a collector's item. Anyway, there's something I think this series is doing right. So far it's featured two of the DC Comic super heroes along with Clark, The Flash last season and in the last episode, Auquaman. What they're doing right, thatI appreciate, is that the superheroes, or at least the actors playing them, are specimens of human beings. Aquaman is possibly more built than Clark Kent, who has already got that superhero build. (The Flash was just a scrawny kid, but he's not supposed to be buff.) He's tall, got the massive chest and arms, and has the square jaw and strong face of a superhero. He's also wearing his signature colors, orange and green. That's another thing this show is doing, by the way. Colors. Clark is almost always in some combination of blue and red. Barry Allen, i. e. The Flash to be wore his red and yellow. Very, very cool. So we've got actors with the classic, comicbook superhero profile. I think that's terrific. I severely dislike comic book movies where the guys don't look like superheroes, where they don't havethat massive, iconic physique, so go Smallville.

This episode was also cool because it had several shots with Clark and Aquaman profiling together. That stacked, profile shot. Oh so cool! That's yet another cool thing about this show - all the foreshadowing / meaning they pack in with really cool shots that you don't expect to mean anything until the camera zooms out (or in, or around) and all of a sudden you realize, "Oh man!"

Go go superhero team-up!