Geoff John talks "Society"

At Comic Con it was announced that comic book genius, Geoff Johns who wrote the well received episodes, "Legion" in season eight will be coming back to write an episode about the Justice Society of America. Recently Geoff Johns shares some new details on his upcoming episode but the article was quickly taken down. I was lucky enough to capture the article and thought it was interesting enough to share with everyone on here. This article is originally from comicbookresources.com:


Last year, Geoff Johns closed out Comic-Con International with news that gave long-time Legion of Super-Heroes fans a cause for rejoice and, if they didn’t have one already, a reason to watch “Smallville.” The superstar writer contributed a script to the CW’s primetime powerhouse that placed the Legion smack dab in middle of the “Smallville” mythos. Well, he’s at it again. It was announced last Sunday at San Diego’s “Smallville” panel that this season, Johns is shifting his focus from a superhero team protecting the world thousands of years in the future to comicdom’s original superhero team – The Justice Society of America. Johns, who wrote “JSA” and the re-launched “Justice Society of America” for nearly a decade, told CBR News that the producers of “Smallville” approached him shortly after the ninth season was commissioned by the network to see if he was interested in writing another episode. And he said yes -- with one caveat. "I said I‘d be interested if I could bring another DC property that’s never been brought to live action, to live action. And so we talked a little bit and I pitched them my idea on how I thought a JSA episode would work because I wanted to remain faithful to what JSA’s all about but still work within the context of the show. And they liked it.” Johns said it was way too early to discuss specific details about the episode but noted he was excited to be heading back to Vancouver for another project. “The writing staff working up there in Vancouver is excellent. And I’m really excited that I’m going to have the chance to work with everybody again. And of course, I’m really excited to be bringing the JSA to Smallville.” Because the Legion members featured last season were heavy hitters – Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy – CBR News nudged Johns for at least a tease of which JSA members we might be seeing. “I cannot to tell you that yet. But I can tell you there might be a character or two that you won’t expect,” teased Johns. No airdate was announced for the episode, but Johns said, “I think it will be around the same time as last season, maybe early to mid-January, but we haven’t locked down the exact airdate yet.”

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Not a whole lot of information but know how good of a writer Geoff Johns is, I am eagerly anticipating his second Smallville episode. It was also revealed during Comic Con that Jeph Loeb, who wrote some of the best episodes in past Smallville seasons such as "Red," "Insurgence," "Legacy," and "Unsafe", is considering writing another episode or two for season nine (perhaps even season ten?) and is in the process of working something out with the show producers.

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