User blog comment:Baneares/countdown to Usual Suspects/@comment-4958495-20120412085315/@comment-1038387-20120412090815

1. I'd love to see the Kents. We haven't seen much Smallville so far.

2. Uhm... Black Manta is black. He has been black since (IIRC) the moment he was created. In the comics, he regularly recruited black henchmen and promised them a land of their own under the ocean surface, without the white man keeping them down. Cal Durham was one of them, though he defected.

2b. And I wouldn't call Sha'lain'a white. She's ambiguously brown.

3a. She could be half-white/half-green. J'onn has hundreds of nieces, he doesn't know all of them.

3b. I think it's pretty obvious the trials thing was a lie. After Secrets, two of Greg's answers suddenly made sense to me: "How long has M'gann been on Earth" was answered with "a month", and "When did the trials take place" with "NO COMMENT".

3c. She sneaked aboard. What made him take her? Maybe he didn't find out until after he landed?