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To get your Smallville-premiere Thursday started right, here's a smidge of news to warm your Super-cockles: James Marsters aka Spike aka Brainiac is back says E! Online's Kristin aka Wanda aka Hottie McHotRumorster:

“Just a little giddy good news to help ring in the new season of Smallville, which starts tomorrow night.

Reliable insiders tell me—and the CW confirms—that James Marsters (swoon, Buffy’s Spike) is returning for four episodes of the superseries during the new season.

We last saw Marsters’s character, Dr. Milton Fine (aka Brainiac), in Smallville’s fifth season finale.

While it’s unclear exactly how James is returning, I can tell you he’s reprising the exact same character, he’s returning to set very soon and his episodes begin airing in January. He also appears on CBS’ Without a Trace this season.”