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Originally posted by Kilgore Trout:
With rare exception Superman is currently dealing with THE VERY same characters that he dealt with in his previous incarnations.

Or did you think John Byrne invented Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen and the Daily Planet? How about Lex Luthor, The Toyman, and any dozens of other bits directly imported from various ages?
No, I don't think he created them. Don't make this a personal fight, ok? There's no need to insult me like that...

It's one thing to use the same characters, it's another to reshash the same situations.

Lex and Clark knowing each other doesn't add anything to the current version of the character, it detracts from it.


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Originally posted by Kilgore Trout:
They are somewhat updated or tweaked or in the case of Jimmy Olsen, lifted directly with no discernable changes.
Only since Loeb. Before that the character was growing up.

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Originally posted by Kilgore Trout:
The whole John Byrne reboot was, as you put it: A “rehash”… of previous concepts.
He used characters, not plots. Clark and Lex being friends as kids is a plot, a reshash of an old idea, not using a character.