Scans: Smallville Season 11, "Detective"

Smallville Season 11: Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER, art by CHRIS CROSS

Smallville Season 11 is quietly continuing to be one of the best Superman comics available, and with the "Detective" arc it finally has Smallville's Clark meet Bruce Wayne!  The results have been a great deal of fun so far, as well as, well, pretty slashy.  Not that it takes much with me.

My only complaint with the series is the one that's shaping up to be my bete noir with DC Comics:  Nightwing was supposed to be Steph Brown, but at the last instant (actually rather after the last instant) the hammer dropped and Miller and Cross were told to make changes to turn her into Barbara.  This was actually the point where I dropped Birds of Prey and Batgirl, even though they're both solid comics:  I was just so ungodly sick of seeing someone called Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, someone who didn't even feel like Barbara Gordon to me.

But that aside (and that's not at all Miller's fault), the comic is great stuff.  Like how it starts with Bruce noticing whether Superman checks out any women--or men--in the crowd:



"Impressive," eh, Bruce?

( I think he likes me. )