As someone who loathed HoxPox and how treated he Cyclops, I wouldn't be feeling any different towards him had he actually gotten the chance to write...
So if Earth 167 is the "official" Smallville universe does that mean that Clark went through TWO Crisis on Infinite Earths? Because that was the plot...
Tough one to identify exactly where he slots in. Mark can't come close to the best of them, but there are a loooooooot of them. Someone other than me...