Conan O’Brien was there but he was posing as the Watchtowers maintenance man. More pressing – how do I answer my four year old son who I’m playing the family friendly Lego game with? I can tell him who Adam West is, he’s seen the old Batman series. Kevin Smith though? He has never directed a DC superhero movie, he’s never played one…he sometimes writes comics that he doesn’t write the ending to because he’s stoned…what is he doing there? Is that Kevin Smith? What the hell is he doing there? We’d seen Adam West kicking around…he was filling the same role Stan Lee did in the Marvel game.
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