Over at the DC blog today Smallville Season 11 was announced. I’m not quite sure how this is going to work but I’ll give the first installment a try. As the Smallville TV series wrapped up, Clark finally ended the decade long costume tease and became Superman. I know there is a history of continuing movies and television in comic books but this just feels like ANOTHER Superman family title. The show ran its course and came to an ending that pleased many vocal internet fans.

I must ask the questions everyone always asks: Will this bring in new readers and will the people that watched the show hear about this new incarnation? The new readers have unfortunately been minimal as far as we know with most comics but with a few well-placed ads in Entertainment Weekly this might take off like the hugely successful Buffy series did for Darkhorse Comics a few years back.

The decision to release this digitally before print just solidifies DC’s commitment to the digital medium. Having former Smallville show writer Bryan Q. Miller on the project along with 11 other creators including Gary Frank can’t hurt. You’ll be able to read the first chapter April 13, 2012, with new digital chapters released weekly after that via COMIXOLOGY.