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TV Guide has reported that the Justice League will be returning to Smallville this season, and earlier than you might have expected!

The season 8 premiere entitled “Odyssey” will feature not only Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, but also three returning special guests on a journey to find a lost friend.

The article goes into more detail on the overall theme of the season being about “dual-identities” and how Clark’s new occupation will lead to his overall profession.

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The Charactors of Tess and Davis “Doomsday” Bloome have been cast for the upcoming season 8 of Smallville.

Davis Bloome, will be played by Battlestar Galactica alum Sam Witwer, who played Alex “Crashdown” Quatraro on the series, will be a bar tender at the “Ace of Clubs”, struggling with the secrets of his past.

The role of Tess will be filled by Cassidy Freeman, who was in the CW pilot Austin Golden Hour, will be taking over in the absense of Lex Luthor. Tess has complete control over Lex’s estate. She claims to be forever in Lex’s debt for saving her life.

The San Diego Comic Con staff has been announcing all of the scheduled panels throughout the day and so we now have the official date and time of the Smallville panel at Comic Con!

The Smallville panel will be held Sunday, July 27th, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

And with that welcome news, we here at SHoE are breathing a collective sigh of relief. We were losing sleep wondering whether or not our Podcast panel would conflict with the Smallville panel, and thankfully we DO NOT conflict with any of the headlining panels at Comic Con this year, including panels for our other shows, Heroes and Terminator!

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It’s been a long time coming, but we now have our own official House of El T-Shirts! We’ve partnered up with Sam and Nate to bring you these quality shirts at great price, and with fast shipping!

Get your own SHoE T-Shirt!

About The Shirts

Shirts are available in all sizes in both Regular and Ladies fits, and they’re made from 100% preshrunk cotton. On the front is our standard SHoE shield designed by Derek and Graham, and on the back is the new Fortress design created by Stuart Baldwyn.

We hope you guys like the new shirts! If these first shirts sell well there will definitely be more shirts with new designs down the road.

Thanks everyone!

It has been confirmed, Justin Hartley will return to Smallville in season 8, as a series regular. That’s right, E! Online’s Kristin Dos Santos is reporting that in season 8 The Green Arrow will appear in 15+ episodes.

It seems as though Oliver’s story arc will deal with his past rather than his identity as the Green Arrow. At any rate this is great news for Smallville fans.

Warner Home Video has released their full press release for the seventh season DVD of Smallville. The new listing has plenty of new details about the release coming this September, including a full release of special features. Click after the jump to see what they are!

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Well, it’s the summertime here at SHoE, & that means several things, including a lot less traffic here at the site due to a certain lack of news regarding Smallville & Superman goings on. We’re going to be bringing you random posts over the summer to keep some interest alive, keep you smiling, & keep you coming back for more. They may not always be comic related, but they’re definitely something that we enjoyed and felt like sharing with you.

One thing I’ve been watching over the past few weeks over at Flickr is the troopies365 project. Project365 is where you take an image, every day, for a year - and in this instance it’s LEGO Star Wars Stormtrooper figures in amazing situations. We enjoy keeping an eye on it, and hopefully you will too. Check it out here.

Capcom and /Film have provided the web with the first look of Kristin Kreuk (Smallville’s Lana Lang) in the upcoming theatrical release of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Kristin is playing the titular role in the film, which is set to release February 27th, 2009; based on a series of video games from the late 80’s and early 90’s. The film also stars Michael Clarke Duncan, Moon Bloodgood, and Chris Klein.

Filming of Street Fighter is taking place in Tibet, where Kristin has been the past four months, preparing for the role, explaining her departure from Smallville after “Veritas”.

Warner Home Video has announced a release date for the seventh season DVD set of Smallville. This will be made available September 9th, 2008 and you can pick up a copy with the ease of the SHoE website. Clicking the banner up above will get you to the standard definition version via our associate Amazon.com where you can make the 6-disc set your own for only $41.99 - or click here to pick up your set on BluRay 3-disc at a great price of $55.95

Both sets will include 2 featurettes (Jimmy and Kara) and the “Chronicles of Kara” Sprint mobisodes. No mention has been made of deleted scenes or audio commentaries, but we’re holding out hope. Purchasing through SHoE supports this site so give it a whirl. Typically season 8 begins one to two weeks after the release of a previous season set, so look for season 8 to premiere on or around September 18th or 25th! Also, as of this posting, pre-orders have resumed on Amazon - so go support SHoE!

Season seven has now come to a close, and was one of the biggest (if not short-lived) seasons in Smallville history. There’s all kinds of discussions about Veritas, the Traveler, the “Omegaheddron”, Michael Rosenbaum’s farewell performance, and “Arctic” in general over at our forums so why not jump in now and get the ball rolling on your thoughts for season 8, which will premiere late September on the CW.

In the mean time, don’t forget you can pick up your season 7 DVD’s on standard definition and BluRay that will release just in time for the 8th season in mid-September, with 20 episodes, deleted scenes, documentaries, and episode commentary. Also, your order will help support this site so it’s win-win!