#the fact that the nightwing mantle COMES FROM KRYPTONIAN LORE is pretty important in comics canon

[luthwhore]

sometimes i think about the smallville season eleven comic series and i deeply wish it had spent more time focused on the actual main characters of the series and less time doing random stories establishing what other DC characters were doing in the smallville verse, both because i feel like it introduced too much too soon in a way that felt very strange for a comic that was supposed to be working with year one of superman being in metropolis and also because, if i’m being honest, i don’t think i could tell you a damn thing about what clark did in that comic outside of the ONE arc where he actually got to interact with lex.

i have some gripes with bqm’s characterization of lex, but for the most part, lex’s story was the most interesting part of the comic (which i guess is faithful to the experience of watching the show), and i did like the comic actually addressing lex’s shit mental health and self-destructive tendencies. probably the best thing about the comic was, god help me, lex’s relationship with otis, a character who in every other iteration of him appearing is always just treated as a joke.

frankly part of me always wants to recommend the s11 comic because i want to talk about lex’s relationship with otis, but i can’t in good conscience recommend them to most smallville fans bc 75% of the comic is dedicated to like, green lantern lore or batman or fucking booster gold, to the point where i really have to wonder who the smallville comics were even meant for, bc they certainly weren’t meant for smallville fans.