Tess is imaginary to lex. Like bats and sups assessment of each other. The story is lame, trying to figure out who is providing guns. Battles prankster and mr freeze

I loved this: Batman vs Superman. And then they were working together, and I saw a different version of Barbara. I really enjoyed reading it, still wish the show was still on though.

Even better than the first one. I'm loving these so far.

Creative S vs B story

The writing is an improvement over the first volume. It feels like Miller is getting the swing of writing the Smallville characters. Most notably, he's managed to write what feels like a fresh (and enjoyable) take on both Batman and Nightwing! I'd love a Multiverse "Smallville" Batman, Mattel... don't make me go to ebay for a custom!The big drawback of this series remains the art. The likenesses are lazy and half-hearted. And by that, I mean the likenesses of humans, much less the actors who por...

Finally, what every fan wanted to see on the screen has happened on the pages. Smallville's Superman teaming up with Batman. To say I was stoked, would have been an understatement, but after a few read throughs, I left the pages feeling a little let down. It seems to me that they did such a great job of creating Green Arrow on the show that Batman wasn't as unique a character due to them making GA more Batmanesce (since that was what they really wanted to do originally). Yes, he's brooding and m...

Painful to read.

Smallville season two continues with this latest "episode" with a fanstic guest starFollowing from the events of volume 1, Lois and Clark are unable to spend time together due to Lex's tracking of Superman's radiation signature. With Clark unable to clock off, he's spending more and more time keeping down crime in the city of Metropolis. In doing so he comes across a criminal gang using expensive and advanced technologyMeanwhile in Gotham city, the Batman and his sidekick Nightwing break up a ga...

These are so hard for me to rate and review. I love finding out what happened next in the Smallville universe, but I'm really not a fan of the art (sorry) and some of the characters don't seem like themselves. It was cool to see Batman, but it feels a little early to be introducing him - almost like the author is already running out of ideas. I'll still try the next one, but I might call it quits on this series if it doesn't improve after that.

3.5. Sigh it has happened a few times where comic books based on a tv show try to make the art show the character's likeness only to drop that in the next installment which is what happened from volume 1 to 2. Not that I have anything against the art here, but I quite like being able to imagine the characters speaking in the actor's voice in my head but my brain is too lazy to do it if the art doesn't match with their look anymore. Then again it has been a few years since I finished the show. An...

I usually digest my comics and manga very slowly, so as to fully appreciate each panel of illustrated goodness and savour the sensation. That being said, the freebie I scored of this one as a Goodreads giveaway…made me wish I had back the hour I spent with it.---SPOILER ALERT!---Artistically, they pulled a few punches and dulled down the expertise: Mr. Freeze’s speech bubbles were horribly pixelated; Barbara Gordon’s hair goes from blonde the entire issue to red once she ponytails it as Nightwin...

Well, the things I enjoyed about the first volume of this continuation of the Smallville TV series are almost completely missing in the second volume. The introduction of Batman into this mythos is a fine idea but it was poorly executed here. The storyline read like a 60s Batman TV series in terms of corniness without the nostalgia. The art seemed like it was from ideas instead of a script and storyboard. Almost seemed like art and writing weren't matched up. Overall, this was a sad disappointme...

I love it…

Batman has now moved from Offscreensville to Smallville - er, Metropolis. Honestly, this gets a big fat sigh from me. I'm not totally The Batman (really?)'s biggest fan so for him to show up and show off his most annoying traits right off the bat (heh), left me cold as always. Having Barbara be Nightwing is an inspired choice (if we ignore the whole Dick getting the idea of becoming Nightwing from Clark himself). Her characterization is very much in the vein of Burnside, even though this predate...

Love me some Smallville! I wish the series never ended but these graphic novels are pretty good too!

Volume 2 of Smallville: Season 11 introduced Batman and Nightwing to the mix, as well as the Prankster and Mister Freeze. It's a pretty decent introduction to the Batman lore -- even if it does feature the bizarre usage of Barbara Gordon as Nightwing -- and continues to utilize Tess in an interesting way despite her outcome at the end of the TV series.I really wish WB had let them use Batman on the TV series properly, because I would have really liked to see him introduced into the mix. I also w...

It took them forever, but they finally got Batman into Smallville. It's just a shame the story wasn't more epic after the long, long wait.

During the decade that Smallville was on the air, that television program (and others to a lesser extent) was denied the use of various characters from the Batman franchise. This was largely because Christopher Nolan, the producer of the Dark Knight Trilogy, and other DC Comics' execs, didn't want the characters to appear in too many adaptations. The fear was of a saturation of Batman-related media that might take away an appetite for the future films. I think the fear was pure bunk, as Batman n...

bruce and clark besties 3

As a fan of Smallville, watching from when the pliot first aired to the series finale the one question I wanted answered was "When is Batman showing up?" It's finally answered here. It's bittersweet. On one hand its great to Smallville Clark meet Batman but the other hand is disappointing that it isn't the live action meeting Smallville fans were hoping for. The story works, love the villain combo, and the introduction of Barbara Gordon as Nightwing was pretty cool. The artwork is much improved