Writer: Bryan Q. Miller
Artist: Jorge Jimenez
Colourist: Carrie Strachan and Gabriel Eltaeb
Letterer: Comicraft’s Saida Temofonte

Previously, in Smallville Season 11: After tricking Superman into saving a crashing orbital platform, Lex Luthor doused the Man of Steel in a radioactive isotope that enabled him to be tracked anywhere in the world. Now, Superman must operate 24/7, or risk Luthor discovering his innermost secrets by stopping to rest at the Fortress of Solitude, or worse, with his wife Lois Lane. Despite their separation, Lois proves integral during Superman’s team-up with the Batman of Gotham City, working closely with Batman’s sidekick, Nightwing, to find crucial information about the killer of Batman’s parents.

Living inside Luthor’s memories is the remnant of his dead sister, Tess Mercer, who has been trying desperately to get a message to her allies in the real world.  Meanwhile, Chloe and Oliver have had two new discoveries – first, the Chloe of Earth-2, who crossed dimensions to warn them of an oncoming Crisis; and, Chloe is pregnant. And, Bart Allen has been operating as part of the Justice League since its inception, but he barely ever stops running to take a breath; what haunts his steps across the planet, and will it mean the end of Bart?

Writer: Bryan Q. Miller
Pencillers: Jamal Igle, Chris Cross, Axel Gimenez, Kevin West
Inkers: Marc Deering, Diana Egea
Colourists: Wendy Broome, Carrie Strachan
Letterer: Saida Temofonte

Previously, in Smallville Season 11: Lex Luthor’s space station launch was in fact a ruse to paint Superman with an irremovable substance that allows the evil genius to track him from anywhere on the planet. Superman is forced to spend his entire waking life avoiding all of his friends and family, including his love Lois Lane. He also cannot return to the Fortress of Solitude, for fear of revealing its location to Luthor.

Lex himself has been plagued with nightmares. His sister, Tess Mercer, whom he brutally killed, has somehow started haunting him, and taking over his body at night in an attempt to alert Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, to Lex’s plans. Oliver and Chloe have their own problems when a spaceship from Earth-2 arrives with Chloe’s Earth-2 counterpart –- she warns them of the Crisis which wiped out the entirety of Earth-2 before dying herself.

Writer: Bryan Q. Miller
Artist: Pere Perez
Colourists: Chris Beckett and Randy G. Mayor
Letterer: Comicraft’s Saida Temofonte

After ten seasons, Clark Kent’s adventures in Smallville came to an end once he finally donned the cape and distinctive red underwear of Superman. Defeating Darkseid and the invading minions of Apokolips, it seemed that Smallville’s existence was done and dusted. And then along came DC Comics, and we can now see what happened with our favourite characters once Superman finally took to the sky.

Smallville writer Bryan Q. Miller, as well as his Batgirl collaborator Pere Perez, have teamed up once again to helm this series, which is released in weekly digital installments, and then three chapters are released as a single physical issue. The first four issues were released and now you can collect the entire first arc, titled Guardian. Is this series a worthy successor to the ten season show, or should Smallville have stayed untouched?

Due to Warner Brothers working with the Batman character during Smallville’s development, the character never appeared on the small screen alongside Tom Welling’s Clark Kent and friends. That will all change this September when the Caped Crusader appears in the digital-first continuation of the show, Smallville Season 11.

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Clark’s journey may have finished on our TV screens, but his adventures as Superman will go on.

DC Entertainment have announced that they will be continuing the show through an upcoming comic series titled Smallville Season 11.

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