Dead Chloe Walking: She’s aliiive!

Well, maybe. After getting blown into little bits and pieces—presumably—in the season finale, Smallville’s Allison Mack (Chloe) showed up over the weekend at the annual Comic-Con event in San Diego, California, sandwiched between the guy who probably did it, Lionel Luthor (John Glover), and the biznatch who’s eventually going to steal her man, Lois Lane (Erica Durance). Let me tell ya, it was better than Springer.

Naturally, as a hard-hitting, well-respected journalist, I set out to get answers to your burning questions: Is Chloe alive? What’s coming up this season? And will Michael Rosenbaum ever take me up my offer to bear his love child?

We’ll get to all of those, but first things first. When asked if she’s coming back from the crypt this season, Allison replied: "I think I’m probably the most boring person to talk to right now, ’cuz I don’t think I’m at liberty to say anything. But you know, it’s a great character. It’ll continue to be a great character. I’m leaving it vague."

"And the character that I play, Lionel Luthor, is responsible for her vagueness," John interjected. "Many people feel it was me who blew her up. But who knows? I thought I was blind, and I turned out not to be. You know, that Kryptonite is very powerful thing." So are confidentiality agreements, apparently.

For the record, these TV peeps are getting far too tight-lipped for the likes of this gossip hound (and sadly, no longer seem to respond to my truth lasso, which seems highly inappropriate, given the venue).

Howevah, I can tattle you this: (SPOILER ALERT! Read only if you want to know!) Insiders assure me Chloe will be back, "in one form or another," this season. And it sounds like LL Cool Cuz (that’s Lois) has something to do with her triumphant return.

Allison spilled what she could: "I think we established this last year that Lois Lane has no interest in journalism, but she is related to Chloe. We’re cousins, but the only two people that we had growing up. It’s a very tight relationship. So, when her cousin disappears, Lois, being the ambitious, hardheaded woman that she is, takes it into her own hands to come in and solve the mystery. So, it’s more about uncovering the mystery of her cousin and sort of finding a resolution in herself."

Erica, who said she’s "doing a bit of a new thing with Lois," doesn’t seemed too concerned about the rabid comic-book fans who are probably freaking out upon reading that. "I know how important it is to the fans, because they’ve been reading it since they were young," she explains. "Hopefully, people will be happy, but I can’t totally concern myself with all of that. I’m just going to have a good time and create."

Personally, I found no fault with Erica, and even felt a special kinship with her, as she belongs to the mile-height club. (Note the T, you dirty birdies!) As John Schneider recently told me, "She’s lovely, and she’s tall, so she won’t have to stand on a couple of boxes, which happens a lot in Smallville!"

John also gave me the word on Clark’s flight plan. "Our writers, who write so well, have managed to have Clark fly, yes," he said. "Tom Welling will fly. The question is really whether or not he’s Clark when he’s doing it."

Tricky, tricky! That convo with John went down at the recent WB party, where I watched my aforementioned future baby’s daddy Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) woo his way through a gaggle of swooning females. He is a ladies’ man like no other, let me tell you—a regular George Clooney of the WB. When asked if he’d answer a few questions for you lovely E! Online peeps, he stretched open his arms and said, "No, but I’ll give you a hug."

Disappointment. Dismay. Disgust. I’d be lying if I said I felt any of those things.