in a HOT TUB--!

[buggery]

This probably isn't news to devoted Smallville fans -- and while I'm still a fan, yes, I'm not what I'd call devoted. I don't typically know about, say, Michael Rosenbaum's birthday or Tom Welling's upcoming movie unless I see an entry in somebody else's LJ, or an advertisement on TV. I don't go hunting spoilers or scripts. I'm a lowercase-f fan.

Anyway.

There's a series of DC-authorised novels based on the TV show (two series, actually, one that's targeted to a juvenile/teen/"young adult" audience and one that's... not). I've had bad experiences with these sorts of books, and besides, I'd rather read the fanfic, so I've been tangentially aware the books exist but wasn't much interested in them.

One of the forthcoming novels is called City, and was written by Devin Grayson (of Gotham Knights, Nightwing, and other comics-scripting fame). Here's part of what Devin had to say about the project in an interview back in November:
(yes, November, I did say this isn't exactly breaking news)

...you can imagine how bummed I was to find out that “adult series” merely means, “as opposed to the teen series line,” not “the XXX series,” as I was hoping. I did, however, manage to squeeze in a scene with Lex and Clark sharing a hot tub...

Yes. Sharing a hot tub. And if you know anything about Devin, you know hardly anybody is better at layering in the maximum amount of homoerotic subtext DC allows its house writers to get away with.

I may actually buy the damn book now. It's supposedly due out next month.

Pre-ordering for City available through amazon.com here.

Quote taken from this interview at The Comic Fanatic.com per that site's fair use guidelines.

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[laurab1.livejournal.com]

This is the blurb, which is on the listing for the book on amazon.co.uk:

Before the legend ... Before the icon ... There was the teenager named Clark Kent ... When Clark visits Metropolis with Lex Luthor, his super-senses become overwhelmed by all the human drama in the sprawling, crime-ridden city. Unfortunately for Clark, it's at a time when he needs his powers most. For the pair are being hunted by kidnappers, hitmen, and a psychopathic alien hunter. And it seems there will be no escape - unless Clark reveals his powers to the world ...

And I'm confused, because the book *this* is by has the Young Adults cover art.

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[buggery.livejournal.com]

Well, the cover image looks like a mock-up, rather than an actual photo of the finished cover, so that could just be a marketing fubar. I figure Devin knows which set of guidelines she had to write within -- she's used to dealing with the Comics Code, after all. In the end, so long as she gets the guys in a hot tub...