Metropolis 90210

Smallville ended it’s eleven-year run earlier this year, although if you’re anything like we at Crisis On Infinite Midlives are, it ended for you a couple or three years earlier when you realized that you could no longer watch any of the episodes that weren’t the one a year written by Geoff Johns if you were even remotely sober. I mean seriously: Doomsday is a paramedic who makes a pass at Chloe Sullivan, who was originally supposed to be Lois Lane before Lois Lane showed up and who became super-intelligent after being kidnapped by Brainiac who looked like Spike from Buffy, and just typing that made me want a double Jack Daniels.

The point is: Smallville is over. I tuned in to watch it finally roll over and die. So I win, right?

Right?

…[S]tory editor and writer for the [Smallville], Bryan Q Miller, also recently of Batgirl until the DC Relaunch, is to write a new novel, tellling the story of what happened to the Smallville cast after the end of the TV series, in continuity. A Smallville Season Eleven, if you will.

But… we already know where the cast ended up: day-player guest spots on crime procedurals and (probably) direct-to video b-movie horror sequels!

Look: I like Bryan Q. Miller’s stuff. I thought he was solid on Batgirl. He’ll probably do okay with what he has to work with here, and if you’re a Smallvill fanatic, the franchise could be in worse hands. But for myself, I can’t imagine spending the time to read a novel about what happens to Clark Kent after the events of Smallville. I, personally, am gonna hold out until they relate those events in, I dunno… a comic book or a movie.