I used to watch Smallville every week up until the end of the fourth season when Lana Lang got to be so awfully passive aggressive that I couldn't stand watching anymore. I thought about going back when I heard she was leaving the show but at the same time I heard there would be no more Lex Luthor either so I didn't bother.

So now two seasons in a row I've tuned back in for two reasons; Zatanna and Geoff Johns. The only two episodes I watched last season were 'Hex' and the episode with the Legion that Geoff Johns wrote and now this season I recorded and watched the Justice Society episode and last week's episode where Zatanna came back. I really liked all of these episodes so now I'm starting to wonder if I should start watching again. Superman has always been my favorite superhero and I really like how the show has turned into Clark and his junior Justice League.

Now that they've gone all out with there being other superheroes in costume and the show's original creators being long gone they don't have any reason to keep around the whole 'no flights, no tights' rule that made sense when it started.

So here's what they need to do:

-Erica Durance as Lois is perfect! I figure the best way to keep going is for Lois to find out about Clark's powers instead of Clark telling her. Lois being Lois, she'll want to write the biggest headline ever but instead comes around and convinces Clark to come out as a superhero. After a lot of hand wringing and talking to Chloe they decide that Clark should be the poster boy for the new age of superheroes and he shouldn't wear a mask so people will trust him. Hence, Clark gets the classes and the whole mild mannered reporter disguise in his regular life.

-I'd like to see more with the Justice Society. They already did a two hour episode of Smallville, so how about a series of TV movies? Superhero TV movies could be the new serials. I know we haven't said many good things about the old Captain America serial from the forties but, unlike the JSA Smallville episode, they decided to ignore everything about Cap. I would gladly tune in every few months to watch a two hour made for tv movie about Hawkman or Stargirl or any other superhero if it aired on the CW or SyFy.

-Last but certainly not least, more Zatanna please. I guess that's more of a personal request. She's one of my very favorite characters and I'm looking forward to the Paul Dini/Stephane Roux Zatanna series when it comes out in May. How about a spin-off starring Serinda Swan as Zatanna? I would call it 'Zatanna's Magical Mystery Tour' and she would travel America and later the world going from city to city performing magic on stage and the going off to fight crime. I would definitely watch it.

No text here. Just another Zatanna picture.

BJ Dowd


'Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.'