October 19 (5MSV: Five-Minute "Sneeze"+"Wither")

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

Green Arrow?

Yep. After repeated attempts by the producers of Smallville to introduce Bruce Wayne/Batman, which were constantly nixed by the powers that be because they were afraid of it interfering with Batman Begins (However that works), the Smallville producers decided to just give up and use Oliver Queen/Green Arrow. Not a bad idea, really, considering pre-1970s Green Arrow was basically a Batman clone, complete with Arrowmobile and Arrowcave. So any story ideas they had for Batman are probably going to be moved to GA.

Now whether GA will keep his post-70s ideology is yet to be seen.