Van's Inner Universe

Living For The Future

September 2007

  • The second part of the 2-part season premiere of the Legion of Superheroes has concluded with the return of the original Superman, who is a couple of years older, more experienced, more in control of his powers, and more muscular than he ever was in the first season. He meets his 41st Century clone, Superman… Read more

  • The 7th season of Smallville is upon us with the premiere episode, Bizarro. This episode is miles better than both Zod and Phantom put together in that it focused on the main character himself, Clark Kent. Most of the stories in the episode have been well-thought out unlike the anticlimactic Zod. This was one of… Read more

  •  The second season of the Legion of Superheroes animated series kicks off with a dark, gritty bang when the Superman clone from the 41st Century called Superman X arrives in the 31st Century needing the Legion’s help in defeating his arch-enemy, Imperiex. Most of the Legion are very skeptical of the Superman clone, especially Brainiac… Read more

  • Superman: Doomsday is the first of the DTV animated movies based on stories by DC Comics. Appropriately enough, they started with the one based on the best-selling story, Death of Superman. This year is the 15th Anniversary of the story so what better way to celebrate it than to do a DTV animated movie based on it.… Read more

  • Earlier today, Comics Continuum has posted their interview with Smallville producer, Al Gough, about the Season 6 DVD that will be released this week on September 18. The 6th season DVD will have many special features, but unfortunately will not have any commentary. But that’s not what my beef is. My beef is what Gough said about the… Read more

  • Remembering 9/11

    Today we celebrate the memories of the people we’ve lost on September 11, 2001, the day that the entire world changed perhaps forever. May their spirits live on forever. Read more

  • With the 7th season of Smallville coming up this month on the 27, I had the opportunity to look back on the pilot episode to point out the elements that made the show successful. Those elements are the following:   1) Clark Kent seeking out his destiny, searching for his identity, and his place in the world.  … Read more