This week, everyone in Smallville/Metropolis just happens to be hanging out at a Comic Book/Sci-Fi convention.  Lois Lane is on assignment, clunking around in a Storm Trooper costume. Yet, she still makes time to encourage Chloe to stop obsessing with her ridiculously bulky brick of a phone and start prowling for dates again. Sheesh, it hasn’t even been a year since Henry “Jimmy” Olsen has been cold in the ground or since Chloe stopped boinking Doomsday on the side. Good call, Lois.   

Meanwhile, a 12-year old kid named Alec Abrams steals a collector’s comic that’s under lock and key in a glass case entitled “Warrior Angel.”  After speaking aloud the words “Angel’s Might,” Alec turns into a super hero, just like Warrior Angel.  And also like the comic book superhero, the protagonist is really just a kid who, after speaking the magic words aloud, is transformed.  (This seems to be Smallville’s continuation of nods to the DC Universe, with Warrior Angel being eerily similar to “Shazam.” Continue Reading