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Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk:
I haven't read Birthright (yet), but the Smallville thing fucking annoys me. Lex and Clark are friends
Which is from the old comics. All Waid did was go full circle there.

Besides, Byrne' original plan--by his own admission--was to just copy and paste the Krypton from Richard Donner's Superman into his reboot, but he was barred from doing that thanks to Marlon Brando's contract on the film. He was no less of a "copycat" than Waid allegedly is.

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There is no reason, other than his inflamed ego, that Mark Waid couldn't have told Birthright as an Elseworlds. There is no reason he had to, yet again, alter Superman's already long-toothed past.

A talented AND non-self-righteous writer can work within continuity and bring new, interesting stories that are both inspired and respectful of a character's past. For every good story that goes against what's been written, I can give you five or ten wonderfully original stories that stayed true to the stories of yesteryear.

And the fact that you, you, and you like it the change is not an excuse to destroy the history others have worked to establish.
This argument can be applied to John Byrne's revamp, too. He didn't show any respect for what came before him, and he didn't think anything of "destroying the history others worked to establish." He "had an inflamed ego" and was "self-righteous," too, because he just tore everything down instead of building on it.

And the excuse that Byrne was hired to do what did is 100% invalid, because Waid was hired to do what's he's doing, too. But that's not what you want to hear, is it? After all, God forbid anyone expose the hypocrisy of those who bash Waid for doing the same thing their great messiah Byrne did. [...rassamnfrackin...]