It’s been a month since Clark Kent entered the comatose mind of madman Lex Luthor, and amnesiac Kara was whisked out of Motown. Tomorrow night, Smallville returns with the first of three all-new adventures, and it’s a hum-dinger featuring Sam Jones III as “Pete Ross,” back in the Corn Capital after moving to Wichita 78 episodes ago. Recently, former scribes Jeph Loeb and Michael Green revealed that the series was originally penned as the story of young Bruce Wayne, but the studio squelched it because of the successful Batman film franchise. At that time, Warner Bros. felt they’d never make another Superman movie, so “you can take this property and see what you can do with it,” Loeb recalls on WizardUniverse.com. Smallville went on to become a network hit, and—you guessed it—the studio produced the 2006 film Superman Returns. For a time, Smallville was prohibited from adding Lois Lane to the cast or showing any Kryptonians, since they were to be part of the big-screen feature. And, as much as we’d like to see a “Bruce Wayne” cameo in Metropolis, this summer’s blockbuster, The Dark Knight, sinks that possibility. Still, many fans surmised that Ian Somerhalder’s six-episode arc in Season 3 was an inside nod to the Caped Crusader. Ian’s mysterious charmer was named “Adam Knight,” linking TV’s Adam West (Batman) with the Dark Knight. Coincidence?

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