fajrdrako | Ack! Excitement on the Smallville front. Oh happy day.

First of all, a debt of thanks to

adamliz for linking to the Kryptonisite page that has pictures from Legacy. I usually avoid spoilers, but not this time. I am thrilled. Thrilled. I am excited.

Second, looking at Kryptonsite (which I haven't looked at for a while) had this interesting tidbit:

This week's "Lying In The Gutters" at Comic Book Resources (a comic book gossip column for those of you unaware) makes mention that screenwriter Tim McCanlies (The Iron Giant) may be doing a young Bruce Wayne comic for DC Comics.

The comic would be "looking at the young life of a playboy, thrown out of every private school in Europe with Alfred having to bail him out of a London jail after a bar fight. It looks at Bruce's reluctance to return to Gotham City in order to inherit Wayne Industries."

Interestingly, this is the exact same concept for a Young Bruce Wayne series that was originally pitched by Tollin-Robbins Productions and McCanlies back in 1999, but was scrapped because the Warner movie division said "Batman is ours." Instead, of course, the WB decided to go with a young Superman series, and the rest is history.

We'd, of course, like to be selfish and have Smallville AND Young Bruce Wayne on TV... but since that won't happen, this might be a sign of what could have been. We'll keep you updated if this is true or not.

Now, The Iron Giant is a movie I absolutely love. And there are few characters in fiction I love as much as I love Bruce Wayne. (I'm not calling him that to distinguish him from Batman, I think it's a well-integrated character; though I always wish we saw more of the suave civilian Bruce Wayne in the comic.)

It shows that good ideas don't die, and personally, I'm as happy to see this in comic book form as I would be to see it on TV.