DC Entertainment announced that they’re taking Smallville beyond the confines of a TV show and moving forward with a comic book franchise, continuing the saga of young Clark Kent. The digital comic will be titled Smallville Season 11.
Smallville Season 11 takes place six months after the events in the series finale of The CW’s Smallville and will include characters Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Chloe Sullivan-Queen, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, and General Lane.
Behind the digital series will be former Smallville screenwriter Bryan Q. Miller.
The title will have new digital chapters released weekly after it’s premiere week of April 13, 2012. And keep an eye out for the online chapters coming out in print, starting May 16th, 2012. The print editions will also have an episode guide to the show.
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DC Entertainment landed a press release in my inbox at around 5:30 A.M. today (Feb 1, 2012) announcing a series of prequel comic titles based on the Watchmen franchise, called “Before Watchmen.” Check out the thoughts and details we have on it, here from the Cinema Static column on Brusimm.
The 2009 Watchmen film, to me, is a wonderfully detailed and gritty movie that takes a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a vigilante superhero. It took a look at their lives behind the scenes and introduced us to the idea that not all heroes are perfect. They have their… issues.
Working in an alternate timeline did not hurt the movie at all, but rather, helped the movie going world become a part of what was built up within the franchise of the Watchmen to gain a better foothold on fans’ imaginations.
(And yes, I’m not mentioning the comic book series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons that came out in 1986/87 that was the source of the movie, Watchmen, because I never read it. My only exposure to the franchise is via the Warner Bros. Pictures movie that was directed by Zack Snyder, and starred Jackie Earle Haley & Jeffrey Dean Morgan, amongst many.
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