DC Comics’ Smallville Season 11 comic book series is considered canon for the events portrayed in the upcoming Arrowverse crossover event, Crisis On Infinite Earths.
Marc Guggenheim, creator of The CW’s Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow was asked about whether or not the stories of the Smallville Season 11 comic book would factor into the Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover in any shape or form. Guggenheim responded with the following tweet:
They won't be directly referenced but we consider the comic to be canon (with one small "off-camera" repurchase of a certain farm). https://t.co/F95dUgUmaX
— Marc Guggenheim (@mguggenheim) October 4, 2019
Based on Guggenheim’s comments, while the events of Smallville Season 11 will not be directly referenced, the stories showcased in that series are considered canon leading up to Crisis On Infinite Earths.
Smallville Season 11 is a comic book series that picks up after the events of the series finale and follows Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and his adventures as Superman. It allowed for stories to be told on a grander visual scale thanks to the creative lengths comic books offer for creators and even involved other DC Comics characters that were not featured on Smallville.
Have you read Smallville Season 11? Even though the events won’t be directly referenced in Crisis On Infinite Earths, does the fact that the comic book series is canon to the show get you more excited for the return of Smallville’s Tom Welling and Erica Durance? Sound off in the comments below.
Crisis on Infinite Earths has been teased since the very first episode of The Flash, where a newspaper headline from the year 2024 revealed the Barry Allen’s fate was to disappear during a “crisis.” However, the fifth season finale of the Grant Gustin series accelerated this when the original newspaper headline changed the date of the event from 2024 to 2019. To add to this, the seventh season finale of Stephen Amell’s Arrow set up Oliver Queen’s role in the next crossover by having him join the Monitor on a mission to warn other worlds of the crisis, as part of the arrangement Oliver made in order to save the lives of both The Flash and Supergirl.
Crisis On Infinite Earths will span two quarters and consist of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman. The Arrowverse crossover will launch with three episodes in December before concluding with two additional episodes in January.
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Source: Marc Guggenheim