How accurate is Smallville with the Superman DC comics?

I haven't been following the Smallville series for quite a while. I started watching again this year. But I'm getting confused with the storyline of Lois and Clark?





Has the Smallville series been faithful in following the DC comics?





PS. How about Superman Returns... did it also follow the comics?|||1) For Smallville there are elements that are based on the comics but not faithful to them. For example, Chloe Sullivan doesn't exist in the comics. The way Lois Lane became a reporter is inaccurate. In Smallville she sort of stumbled upon it when she actually persued it in the comics. The character of Oliver Queen is actually based more on Bruce Wayne/Batman then the real Oliver Queen. Martha and Jonathen are older and live on the farm (although Jonathen just died in the comics from a heart attack). Lana was never married to Lex, but she did run Lexcorp for a few months about a year ago in the comics. In fact, Lana married Pete and had his child. DC writers have also admitted that they had altered some of the comic history to match with the show. For example, in the modern age history of Clark's highschool time Lana was interested in Clark but he wasn't interested in her. Flashbacks over the last few years now portray it as a mutual interest that was never really explored.





2) Superman Returns was not faithful. Clark never left earth for years and he and Lois never had a biological child together. Following the movie, the superman titles did introduce a kryptonian child (Chris) that Lois and Clark adopted. Some comic fans were quite outraged with the Superman Returns and the introduction of a biological child. Especially since in the last few years of comics it has been stated that Lois and Clark are unable to produce a child together.|||There are different version of the supes in the comic books, Smallville take elements form various moments and interpretations of the comic book, add a lot of their own, and mixed it.





For example in the Silver age there was histories of Superboy, when Superman was a teen and live some adventures in Smallville. In this Version Lex and Superboy (not Clark Kent) were friends and then they turn enemies.





Later in the eighties, John Byrne did an amazing revamp of the character, where he was never Superboy, but leave Smallville to do greater good a couple of years before turn into Superman. They never met Lex before he was a stablished Superheroe.





Actually there have been others interpretations, (like the awful Birthright), but have been discarded.





It is coming soon the definitive origin for this era of Superman, in the series Called "Secret Origins", where there is a lot to be explained yet.|||almost cero





i dont read superman comisc but i do read lot of dc comics and talk with people about it


and is very different





superman returns dont follow the comics either





but dont worry about it


when you read comics you have to develop a four dimensional way of reading


you have to think all versions of superman exist at the same time they are just alternative realities.