Comics

"Smallville: Season 11" Comic Book Index

2013

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #28 [Digital Comic] (January 4)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Axel Gimenez, Diana Egea
  Superman and Martian Manhunter are overseeing construction of a base on the moon when Superman gets a distress signal and has to leave. Later, Manhunter returns "home" to Metropolis and his life as John Jones, detective with the Metropolis Police. He encounters a neighbor and her son, helps her carry her groceries and gives the boy a bit of a lesson in duty and obligation. Then, alone again in his own apartment and reminiscing about his lost Martian family, Manhunter is overcome with some kind of mental/emotional aggravation and uncontrollably morphs into his true Martian form as he writhes on the floor in apparent agony. Over in Gotham City, Batman and Nightwing are busy busting up a gang called The Mutants when Nightwing encounters a large alien creature in the middle of strangling a homeless man. She intervenes and is dealt a savage blow before Batman arrives and startles the creature into fleeing. Batman returns with Nightwing to the Batcave, sedates and stabilizes her, and proceeds to try and decipher a message the alien left behind. Just as he concludes that he can't decipher the message because the language is not of this Earth, John Jones arrives and declares that the language is in fact Martian.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #29 [Digital Comic] (January 11)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  Together in the Watchtower tower, Oliver wants to be Batman while budding ace marksman Chloe doesn't want to talk about why they haven't told anyone about the pregnancy. Westbound over the Atlantic Ocean, meanwhile, Bart tells Clark about the demonic creature he has been seeing while using his superspeed and how it started when he was trapped by Lex in that cage and forced to run incessantly lest he be electrocuted. Getting Clark to race him around the world, he says, was a test to see whether Clark could also see the creature and, thus, whether he is "crazy." Clark assures him he isn't and commits to finding a way to confront the creature. Meanwhile, Lois, convinced Lex is up to no good, is investigating an abandoned Luthorcorp industrial site, which has apparently remained demolished and unreclaimed all this time. At the site, where Lois has just arrived, a cleanup crew finds some kryptonite, the smashed glass walls of Bart's old cage and some weird red, yellow and black crackling energy on the ground. One of the crew members bends down to investigate and is encompassed in a kind of multi-colored-energy cyclone. Lois yells for somebody to call an ambulance and then rushes to help. But the crew member is dead... his body aged considerably!

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #30 [Digital Comic] (January 18)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  Lex continues to threaten Tess. It's all in his head. Emil looks to get after-hours help from his S.T.A.R. Labs associates and Superman and Impulse are on the way in for help investigating the Speed Demon/Black Racer. Lois, in blue collar disguise complete with baseball cap, infiltrates Lexcorp and snags Otis's keys, which get her into Lex's office. But not ahead of Green Arrow. Bart flirts with one Sivanna of the research team, then he and Clark mount specially-designed treadmills in an effort to confront the Demon Racer together. They push the limits of their speed until Clark finds himself alone and face to face with the Demon Racer, who tells him his speed is not pure. Then suddenly knocked back into his normal reality, Clark tells Bart he'll find some way to save him, adding "I have to."

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #31 [Digital Comic] (January 25)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  Lois Lane, eating take-out with Superman on the Daily Planet rooftop, informs him about the Lexcorp employee who was aged to death by the speed force and that similar incidents have occurred all around the world in places, Superman deduces, where Bart has been. He needs to talk with an expert. Lois's intern then arrives, scaring Superman away, and reveals that handwriting consultants have determined that the "Help" note Lex Luthor wrote and passed to Lois in his office was written by Tess Mercer. Over at S.T.A.R. Labs, Oliver Queen and Emil Hamilton prepare to attempt one of Lex's "mind dives," using Chloe and the corpse of Chloe-2. The idea is that they're going to see whether Chloe can access any of her counterpart's memories in their efforts to come to terms with what the "Crisis" is. Superman and Impulse, meanwhile, go to the Justice Society of America headquarters/museum, currently under the care of Ma Hunkle, to begin a search for Jay Garrick, the original Flash. Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, the mind dive works and Chloe is witness to deceased Chloe-2's startling memory of seeing Lois-2 disintegrated by the laser from an alien spaceship hovering about the city.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #32 [Digital Comic] (February 1)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Axel Gimenez, Diana Egea
  Bruce Wayne and Detective John Jones are in the middle of a stand-off. They battel back and forward, before Jones extends a friendly hand to Bruce. Below Gotham in the sewers, Bruce, now as Batman, takes Jones to meet Commissioner Jim Gordon and to see where his fight with the White Martian took place earlier that night. Batman reveals that this specific glyph that appeared during the fight has shown up throughout the country dozens of times in the last 18 months. Jones reveals that the symbol is a representation of his true name, J'onn J'onzz. Batman states that it is good that Jones lives alone; otherwise the White Martian may come to attack those he cares about. Realizing that he's not the only one who lives in his apartment building in Metropolis, he quickly flies back to check on his friends. Batman, caught off guard by Jones's sudden leave, calls Chloe at the Watchtower and asks for Superman to help with the situation. Unfortunately, Clark is currently in Utah, so Alfred sends the Bat-Jet in to take Bruce to Metropolis. In Metropolis, John's neighbor Billy hears a noise in Jones's apartment and goes to check on him, only to be attacked by the White Martian. John arrives just in time to save Billy as Batman, who has also arrived, rushes everyone out of the building. John beats on the Martian until it pins him, calling Jones a "murderer". Batman throws a grenade at the creature, which blasts it outside. Bruce asks why the alien called him a "murderer", to which John replies, "Because I am".

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #33 [Digital Comic] (February 8)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  A boy in Mumbai reaches to retrieve his wayward soccer ball, which lies in the grass amid crackling speed force. In France, that same crackling finds a police car, and then the policeman leaning against it. At the Watchtower, Oliver and Chloe are monitoring these fatal "speed incidents," which are apparently increasing. Oliver gets Superman on the line to keep him posted while he and Impulse are out in the Utah desert in search of original Flash, Jay Garrick. Meanwhile, Chloe slips into a kind of trance, reliving Chloe-2's six-year-old memories of Ultraman/Clark Luthor slaughtering meteor freaks in the hallways of Smallville High School. Back in Utah, Bart explains he has no memory of having stolen Jay's identity or anything else before gaining his super-speed. Bart asks Jay if he knows about the "Black Racer." Jay, it turns out, has an intimate familiarity with the "monster," to the point where he stopped running (presumably by allowing a broken leg not to heal correctly) to avoid the encounters. Superman tells Jay that "speed storms" are breaking out everywhere Bart has been, killing people in the process. Jay says he survived the Racer by stopping running. When Bart says that's not an option, Jay tells them the answer is simple: "The boy has to die."

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #34 [Digital Comic] (February 15)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  A few things have gone missing from the Lexcorp building, including Lex Luthor's "mind dive" device, security tapes and even the security guards. Lex suspects Oliver Queen. Switch to Earth-2, two years prior. Oliver is target practicing in the Watchtower while Chloe drinks whiskey on the couch. Oliver is dating Lois, says he plans to propose, and is obviously also very intimate with Chloe, who is better at archery than he is. Back on Earth-1, Chloe tells Oliver about the memory. In Utah, Superman and Jay Garrick discuss Bart's limited options for avoiding or defeating the Racer. The speed incidents are the result of the Racer trying to create a new speedster on which to feed. Bart gets angry at Jay for not having confronted the Racer himself. Chloe calls Superman about a large speed storm in Las Vegas. Emil Hamilton has created a special containment suit designed to augment Superman's speed so he can catch up with the Racer. The suit is blue, and glows. In his new blue suit Superman arrives in Vegas to take on the Black Racer.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #35 [Digital Comic] (February 22)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  Lois Lane finds Otis at a Metropolis watering hole. Psimon had called Lois to tell her that Tess had asked him not to "dig around" in Lex's mind. But Otis says he neither knows Lois nor trusts her, and isn't about to talk. Lois phones Barbara Gordon and asks her to come to Metropolis and try to get the information out of Otis. Meanwhile, out in Las Vegas, Superman is busy saving citizens affected by the speed storm, the effort charging his new special suit so that he will be able to move fast enough to confront the Racer. When he finally can, the Racer acknowledges his presence and says that while Superman is not "of speed" he will be consumed anyway. They charge each other and bystanders on the outskirts of town are witness to the force of the collision. At Jay Garrick's house in the Utah desert, Bart decides to head to Vegas. Before he leaves, Jay tells him he had the same experience as Bart when he got his powers: he woke up and had five names in his head - his own, Barry Allen, Max Mercury, Wally West and Bart. Jay tells him the same thing happened to them all, and that Bart is not alone. Bart says he's always alone but that "the only kind of family" he has needs his help. And off he races toward Vegas.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #36 [Digital Comic] (March 1)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Axel Gimenez, Vicente Cifuentes & Diana Egea
  Long ago on Mars the Green and White Martians were at war with one another. J'onn J'onzz fought against the White Martians, but is now the last of the Green Martians to survive. He tells Batman that Jor-El of Krypton found him after this was and give him a purpose again. Back in the Batcave, Alfred gets a call from Bruce asking how Barbara is doing. Batman is relieved she's doing fine. The two discover that the first murder by the White Martian happened at a cabin in the Rocky Mountains, which is conveniently close to Checkmate's base, the Castle. When Batman and Martian Manhunter arrive, they find it still in ruins from when General Zod destroyed it. Batman then throws his Echobats into the Castle and they build a map based off of their scans. They find a launch pad with a rocket inside. But that's not all they find as John stumbles on a dead man's body and Batman upon a child's doll. Batman deduces that when Zod brought the Castle down, that it trapped the man in the launch bay with no way to get out. They find the man's phone and play a message. In the message, they find out that the man is Doctor King Faraday and in his final moments he begs whoever is watching to take care of his daughter.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #37 [Digital Comic] (March 8)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Axel Gimenez, Diana Egea & Coral Martinez
  The White Martian lunges off its platform at Batman and John Jones. John shapeshifts back into his Martian Manhunter form as Batman tells him to keep the White Martian busy and zips to the platform above. John then, while fighting the creature, has a telepathic conversation with the White Martian. Batman finds the Martian's "nest" and finds Faraday's key-card with a picture clipped to its back. It's revealed that Faraday had a daughter and because of that loss, he bonded with the White Martian over their loss. John then goes into the Martian's mind and sees her memories. We see how she was sent away during the Martian Civil War, we see her landing on Earth and being found by Faraday, and we see how she shapeshifted into Faraday's daughter to help him grieve. Batman disarms his weapons and John proceeds to comfort M'gann. Later at the Batcave, Bruce and Barbara begin to train in the Cave once again, with Alfred smiling at the sight. Back in Metropolis, John and his "niece" Megan go back to his apartment before later flying together in space, John and Megan shift into their natural martian forms of J'onn J'onzz and M'gann M'orzz and fly off to Mars to learn more about their family history.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #38 [Digital Comic] (March 15)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  On Earth 2, in Chloe's memory, Oliver has called a press conference to reveal that Ultraman is really Clark Luthor and to announce that Queen Industries is going to provide every citizen of Metropolis with a personal amount of "meteor rock" with which to defend themselves from the villain. Meanwhile, Chloe-2 is waiting with a sniper rifle and a Kryptonite bullet with which to shoot Ultraman, whose appearance on the scene is fully expected. And appear he does, fully aware that it's a trap, and snapping Oliver's neck when Chloe fails to shoot for apparent fear of hitting Oliver. On Earth 1, Chloe sheds a tear from the flashback and doesn't want to talk about it with Oliver. She's too busy tracking Bart, who is running faster than he's ever run before, around and around the world, gathering up the speed from every speed force outbreak. At one point, he seems to have some speedster companions who want to talk with him, but they are not identified. Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, Superman continues to fight the Black Racer, who seems to be gaining the upper hand just as Bart arrives, prepared at last for the final showdown and his reckoning with the speed force.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #39 [Digital Comic] (March 22)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  Bart races Superman away from the Black Racer and explains he knows how to end the fight. As Bart then races back into the city, Superman tries to catch him. Superman shouts for Bart to slow down but Bart, tears streaming down his eyes, says "Not this time, amigo!" The Black Racer sees Bart heading his way and is ready for the battle. But Bart stops suddenly, giving all of his speed to the Racer, which causes an explosion that effectively obliterates both the Racer and Bart. Flashback to Smallville, two months ago... Chloe has just shot the mysterious pilot she and Oliver had been tracking and is knocked clear upon physical contact. Then we see the full conversation between the pilot (Chloe-2) and a Monitor before the Monitor kills her (which we saw in Chapter 11). Chloe-2 is "roiling with bleed" from having been touched by her Earth-1 counterpart, and while the Monitor is impressed at the lengths to which Chloe-2 travelled to warn Earth-1, he's not about to spare her life. "The Monitors maintain order. Existence is chaos. And so all existence shall be brought to an end." Back in the here and now, Chloe rouses from the memory as news of Impulse's sacrifice comes in from Superman. How, she asks Oliver, are they going to raise a child considering the lives they lead? Oliver says he doesn't know. Later, at the JSA brownstone, Jay Garrick and Superman talk about Bart, about Hawkman, and about how everything ends. Then Emil shows up and reveals that the excess Speed Force that Bart exposed Clark to "might have done more than just save the world..."

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #40 [Digital Comic] (March 29)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Jorge Jimenez, Jorge Jimenez
  Lois Lane isn't expecting the knock on her door while talking on the phone to Superman, who says he doesn't think he'll be doing the flybys anymore. That's Clark Kent at the door. They embrace and Clark explains about Bart's super-speed eliminating the radiation. Lois offers thanks to Bart but tells Clark to change back into the Superman costume as they have work to do. At Lexcorp, Lex Luthor finds the lights aren't working. He calls out to Otis but is greeted instead by the red glowing eyes of Superman. Green Arrow is there, too, and remarks that Lex used to buy nicer scotch. The two heroes have come for Tess, whom they now know to be alive and well. But it's Lois who does the dirty work of rendering Lex unconscious. When he wakes, Lex demands to know where his sister is. He finds a note, which features Superman's S-shield and the words "thanks for the memories." Meanwhile, Emil Hamilton has developed the means to upload Tess into a hologram projector. She proves grateful to be free of Lex at last. Clark then notices that Chloe isn't around, and finds her on the balcony. They talk about the Crisis and Chloe tells Clark about the pregnancy and how she and Oliver have to leave Metropolis at least until the baby is born. Clark understands, as usual, and everyone but Lex is happy.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #41 [Digital Comic] (April 5)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Cat Staggs, Carrie Strachan
  Lois Lane is flying over the Atlantic Ocean on an assignment for the Daily Planet when she is spotted by a little girl. When the girl starts asking Lois about Superman and what he's like, she starts answering her questions up until she is asked if she is in love with him. Lois then, after hinting at her answer, walks to the lavatory and is stopped by two flight attendants who recognize her. They also bombard Lois with questions about Superman. In London, Mr. Perry White, a member of England's own Daily Planet, gets a call from Lois (who has now arrived in Africa) telling him that she got into a fight with both a flight attendant and an Air Marshall. Lois reassures Perry that she's not yet on the "No-Fly" list before getting in an army transport vehicle. In the vehicle, Lois is questioning the troops about the mysterious "Angel of the Plateau" who has been taking down African warlords bare-handed. But before Lois can get more information, they are ambushed. Lois is told to stay in the car, but she does just the opposite and as a truck is blown, Lois is trapped under it. As she pulls herself free, her Superman signal watch is removed. As her and a soldier are running away from the war-zone, another truck is blown up and is headed toward Lois. Suddenly, the truck is caught and Lois is saved by none other than... Lana Lang?

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #42 [Digital Comic] (April 12)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Daniel HDR, Daniel HDR
  Something is chasing a group of men across the Antarctic tundra. Booster Gold arrives to save them, but his Legion ring decides not to work for him. Blue Beetle arrives to save the day. In Metropolis, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are showering together before Clark hears a distress signal, finishes putting on his Superman costume, and flies off. Later, at the Daily Planet, Cat Grant is not happy that Clark hasn't returned any of her calls - she's been trying to let him know that Booster Gold has been waiting for him. Clark and Booster head to the roof to talk, Clark annoyed that Booster is finding him at work. Skeets is happy to meet "Mr. Superman" and Booster admits he knows about Clark's "hiatus" but is eager to discuss the Legion ring. He tosses it to Clark, whereupon its "voice" is heard again, declaring "Authorized user present. Prepare for mandatory recall." There is a lot of purple light, neither Clark nor Booster knows what's happening and then, with a "Pop," they are brought forward in time to the 31st Century, leaving Skeets behind and finding themselves standing before a giant - and toppled - statue of Superman.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #43 [Digital Comic] (April 19)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Daniel HDR, Daniel HDR
  Skeets misses Booster. At Watchtower, Digital Tess is at a loss. Skeets has informed her of his situation and sayd he needs to purchase land with a thousand-year lease. Clark and Booster, in the 31st Century, are confronted by Skeets who has been waiting in a time capsule in that very spot for 1,000 years. Clark wonders where the Legion is. An enflamed spaceship is falling down on top of them. Meanwhile, aboard that very ship, Lightning Lad and Brainiac 5 are trying to escape from agents of Earthgov. Superman catches the ship, but Booster's efforts to evacuate the area meet resistance from a few people who question whether Booster is even human. Until they see the ship nearly on top of them. Then they run. Safely on the ground, Lightning Lad and Brainiac come up and Superman. They ask him what he's doing in the future and he says he was hoping they could tell him. Just as they're clarifying the circumstances of their involvement with the crashing spaceship, a group of armed and masked men arrives and commands them all to submit themselves to custody. Superman asks whether the Legion is at war with Earth, to which Brainiac responds that it's not quite that simple. Earth is at war with the new planet in the solar system. New Krypton.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #44 [Digital Comic] (April 26)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Daniel HDR, Daniel HDR
  Booster Gold tosses Skeets like a football into the air above the group of EarthGov agents surrounding Superman, Lightning Lad and Brainiac 5 - Skeets gives off some kind of electric pulse and down go the agents, allowing the heroes to go free. Brainiac recommends a disguise for Superman - different hairstyle, glasses and a red jacket. They discuss the Legion Ring protocol message, and Brainiac tells them that the protocol doesn't exist. Brainiac then wants to know who Booster is, but Superman interjects and forces the conversation over to the matters of his accidental time traveling and this so-called New Krypton. Turns out the Kandorians have returned - in the form of their descendants, who have flourished on the planet Clark sent them to, Argo, for the past thousand years. Their struggle with Earth began when they were denied membership in the United Planets, but has since escalated thanks to certain other actions EarthGov has taken... Meanwhile, over on an EarthGov Holding Facility, Minister Kirt Niedrigh is demanding of the governing council that the prisoner be moved to a more secure location. Just then, Superman rips through the facility's wall. They use a red sunlight flashbang on him, but that only delays him momentarily. He's just there to free the prisoner, he says. He's just there for Supergirl.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #45 [Digital Comic] (May 3)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Cat Staggs, Carrie Strachan
  Lana Lang deflects a bunch of bullets shot at her by child soldiers. She stops the bullets and tells them that they don't have to live the way they are living and don't have to be soldiers. She then proceeds to take them to her Sanctuary as Lois Lane follows, trying to get her story. That night, Lana explains to Lois that with the powers she has and with what happened in Metropolis, she had to go somewhere where she could make a difference. She tries and tries to stop the bloodshed and sex trade, but she cannot stop it completely. Even with her contact, David, she doesn't always succeed. Lana explains that the reason she brings the kids to the Sanctuary is because she wants them to have a childhood, something she herself didn't fully have in Smallville. In Tinasha, a bunch of the warlords are meeting together to discuss destroying the Angel of the Plateau. After a brief fight and the murder of one of the warlords, one of them brings up an easier solution. In order to destroy a threat from the west, pit it up against another from the west. In this case, they have hired a mercenary that has a connection to Lana, a mercenary named John Corben aka Metallo.

• Smallville: Season 11 Chapter #46 [Digital Comic] (May 3)
  Bryan Q. Miller, Cat Staggs, Carrie Strachan
  At Lana's Sanctuary, Lois finds Lana's Superman scrapbook. Lana begins to ask Lois about Clark, which initially makes Lois uncomfortable. Lois tells Lana about the radiation ordeal that Lex put her and Clark through, but reminds her that they "made it work". Lana moves on and offers Lois some stew that one of the kids whipped-up before talking about what her new mission in life. Just then, there's noise outside that infers trouble and Lana super-speeds out, only to be attacked by John Corben aka Metallo! Lois runs outside and exchanges a word or two with Corben before explaining to Lana who Metallo is. Corben brings up that Lois had given him a Red Kryptonite powered heart, but it didn't work as well as the Green. Corben continues to explain that when he worked for Toyman's Marionette Ventures, he was excited about his gig. Although he never fought Supergirl, he was given a new Green Kryptonite heart, which can absorb Meteor Rock aka Kryptonite. With her suit in danger of being absorbed, Lana lunges at Corben to defend Lois and the children, but then put in a choke-hold by him as he starts to absorb her Kryptonite laced nanites. Lana, shoved to the ground, is lifted up by Lois as they watch the Kryptonite nanites reform and upgrade Corben's body into a new and improved version of Metallo!

Smallville Comics Index

Introduction

When the television series concluded after 10 seasons a new comic book titled Smallville: Season 11 was introduced in April 2012 as a weekly digital comic book series. The online chapters are also collected in a print periodical released weeks after the digital issues.

The Writer, Penciller and Inker for each issue are listed within the Comic Index pages, directly below each title's name and number.

Note: Remember, the dates listed are from the issue covers, not the actual date when the comic was on sale.

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