The House of El: Superman, Smallville & The DCU

May 14, 2009 –  Rokk returns from the 31st Century and informs Clark that Doomsday will kill him, and gives him a new Legion ring to transport Doomsday to the future. Instead, Clark decides to use black kryptonite to split Davis from Doomsday, and bury the beast a mile underground. Tess confronts Lois about stealing the Kryptonian orb, but as the two fight, Lois finds the Legion ring and is t...

May 7, 2009 –  Tess gathers a team of meteor-infected individuals to track Doomsday so that she can give Clark his location, and hopefully convince him to kill Doomsday. One of Tess’ team members pretends to be Chloe in order to trick Clark into killing Doomsday. Instead, Tess learns that Clark plans to use black kryptonite to split Davis from his Doomsday persona, and send the beast into the...

April 30, 2009 –  Clark begins to suspect that Davis is alive, and when the Metropolis police issue a manhunt for Davis, whom they believe to be a local serial killer, Chloe decides it would be best if they both just left Smallville. Clark informs Chloe that he can send Davis to the Phantom Zone using the crystal from the Fortress of Solitude; hearing this, Chloe lies and tells Clark she thin...

April 23, 2009 –  After saving Chloe from a carjacker, who turns out to be local mobster, Bruno Mannheim , Lois takes on the superhero persona of “Stiletto”, which she uses to get closer to the Red-Blue Blur and convince him to give an interview to “Lois Lane”. Jimmy is enlisted to take photos of Lois in her Stiletto costume, but his camera is taken by the mobster, who wants revenge on Stilet...

April 2, 2009 –  After doing some research, Tess informs Davis that he crash landed to Earth in 1989, during the Smallville meteor shower, alongside another boy. She tells Davis that he and Clark Kent are destined to fight and kill each other, and that Clark cannot accept his role as Earth’s savior until he kills Davis. Davis remembers that he was hurt by kryptonite as a child, and has Chloe...

March 26, 2009 –  A magician, Zatanna, grants Chloe’s wish to have Lois’s life, and as a result Chloe wakes up with Lois’s body. Chloe informs Clark about what has happened, and the pair track down Zatanna. Chloe learns that to reverse the spell she has to not want the wish any longer; at the same time, Clark inadvertently wishes to have a normal life, which deprives him of the knowledge of h...

March 19, 2009 –  Clark begins to embrace the idea of a double identity by wearing his blue shirt under his suit, carrying his red jacket in his backpack, and switching into his Red-Blue Blur persona whenever he needs to. Tess orchestrates an elaborate plan to expose Clark’s secret, which involves stranding the two of them on a plane on the verge of crashing. Clark manages to get the two to s...

March 12, 2009 –  Lois Lane returns to Smallville and is not happy to see Clark. Linda Lake comes back and threatens to expose Clark’s secret if he does not agree to provide her with the inside scoop on all of the “Red-Blue Blur” heroics he performs. Instead, Clark has Lois write his story as a means of controlling the inevitable. In response, Linda announces that Clark is part of an alien in...

February 5, 2009 –  Just as Oliver is announcing to the LuthorCorp board of executives that Queen Industries has bought controlling interest in LuthorCorp a bomb detonates in the meeting room. Clark and Lana investigate the bombing and discover that the bomb was made with kryptonite. Lana also discovers that her suit not only gives her strength and speed, but absorbs kryptonite radiation as w...

January 29, 2009 –  Believing that Lana has been kidnapped, Tess tells Clark that she believes Lex took her. She also informs Clark that the reason Lana left after coming out of her coma was because Lex had her taken into custody when she woke, and forced her to break up with Clark via a video. After Clark talks with Chloe, he realizes that Lana never returned because she was busy plotting he...

January 22, 2009 –  John Jones is shot by an unseen assailant while on duty, and Chloe and Clark suspect that the shooter was another police officer. Clark goes undercover as a cop to identify the shooter. Clark discovers that a group of officers are taking the law into their own hands, and killing criminals. The group realize who Clark really is, and frame him for John’s attempted murder. Be...

January 15, 2009 –  Clark is attacked by the Persuader in his barn, but before he is killed a trio of superpowered aliens from the 31st Century, called the Legion, shows up and saves him. While inhabiting Chloe’s body, Brainiac informs Davis that he will soon become the creature “Doomsday” permanently, and places him in an ice cocoon for the metamorphosis. Rokk, Imra and Garth inform Clark th...

January 14, 2009 – Here’s our interview with Smallville’s very own Cosmic Boy, Ryan Kennedy. Derek and Tucker talk with Ryan about his 31st century counterpart, Rokk, and what went into the casting and execution of 2009’s return episode, “Legion.”

December 31, 2008 – This Week On SHoE – SHoE’s back to ring in the new year right! It’s been over a month since our last episode and we’re to tell you what we’ve been up to, what’s going on as we speak, and what’s coming down the pipeline with Smallville and SHoE. Not only that but there’s a lot to discuss as we’re 2 weeks away from the January 15th return of Smallville!

November 25, 2008 – This Week On SHoE – Here’s your double dose of SHoE for this week to get you through til December! ‘Abyss’ and ‘Bride’ were so epic we felt the need to combine the two and discuss them in tandem. We’ve got full discussions for both including all the news leading up to the January 15th return of Smallville; plus news and a ton of email.

November 21, 2008 – Here is our interview with Smallville director Mairzee Almas who was at the helm of this seasons episodes “Toxic” and “Identity”. Mairzee also talks about the progression of the Doomsday story line from the start of the season, and a look at what’s to come.

November 6, 2008 –  Someone sends Clark the crystal to rebuild the Fortress, only, when Clark touches the crystal it activates and sends him and Lois to the Phantom Zone. There, Clark and Lois find Kara, who helps Lois escape back to Earth. Unfortunately, General Zod’s wife, Faora, also escapes and takes over Lois’s body. Faora sets out to find her son, who turns out to be Davis – Faora expla...

October 30, 2008 –  Lois and Jimmy are mugged on the street, and when Jimmy attempts to snap a picture of the mugger he catches a blurred image of Clark saving Lois. Jimmy goes on the hunt to identify the mysterious “Good Samaritan”, and Chloe tells Clark that he should use this opportunity to create an alter ego for himself like Oliver has with “Green Arrow”. Tess plants a new reporter, Seba...

October 23, 2008 –  A serial killer attacks a local club, injuring and murdering several patrons. Clark arrives and discovers Davis’s body, covered in blood and lying unconscious on the floor. Davis denies any memory of the event. While looking for clues, Clark meets John Jones, who, since losing his powers, has taken a job as a police detective. John and Clark work together on the attack, wi...

October 16, 2008 –  Chloe and Jimmy are kidnapped after their engagement party by a jeweler who wants to test their love. Using a lie-detector to quiz them, every time one is caught in a lie the other is punished with a surge of electricity. Clark and Lois discover that they are missing and pose as a couple to lure the kidnapper out of hiding. Chloe and Jimmy survive, answering the questions...

October 9, 2008 –  Tess and a scientist activate the crystal that built the Fortress of Solitude, which results in an energy beam being sent into space. An alien, Maxima, from the planet Almerac recognizes the beacon as Kryptonian and comes to Earth to search for the Kryptonian she believes sent for her. Maxima tracks the signal to Tess, and then mistakenly identifies Jimmy as the Kryptonian....

October 2, 2008 –  Oliver collapses at a fundraiser and reveals to Clark and Chloe that he has been poisoned and only has twelve hours to live. Chloe calls Davis, who attempts to find a cure for Oliver’s ailment, while Clark tries to find out who is responsible. Tess assigns Lois the job of uncovering the truth about Oliver’s “drunken fall” at the fundraiser. While unconscious, Oliver relives...

September 25, 2008 –  On Clark’s first day at the Daily Planet a bomb on a bus goes off outside the building. Chloe helps one of the injured passengers, Bette, and meets paramedic Davis Bloome. Bette, a homeless teenager, stays with Chloe while Davis contacts a friend who runs a shelter for the homeless. Clark discovers that there was no bomb on the bus, but that someone blew it up with their...

September 27, 2008 – He’s been called one of the best things to hit Starkville’s House of El since the beginning of the show, and now you too can have his lucid tones whenever you want! Steve Glosson and chocolate pie have become synonymous with SHoE since Steve started hosting late last year, and now we’re happy to bring you the remastered version of “Chocolate Pie”, made famous by Steve and...

September 22, 2008 – Here is our second interview with actress Alaina Huffman who portrays the Black Canary on Smallville. Huffman first appeared last season in the episode “Siren” and returns this week to talk in detail about her role in the Justice League with the season premiere.