quote:
Originally posted by thedoctor:
This is just DC making Smallville continuity for the title, that's all.

"It works on TV. It's gotta work in the comics!"
I predicted this would happen years ago, when Metropolis and Krypton got turned into the Animated Metropolis and Animated Krypton. I hope my prediction of Pete Ross turning black (or remembering he was black when he was a teenager) doesn't come true.

Sure, all this new elements (Lex and Clark, new Krypton) are a lot like the original elements, but that's just an excuse, what counts is the motivation behind the introduction (or re-introduction) of these elements, and that motivation is making the Comic Superman more like the TV Superman, to get the people who watch the show to buy the comic.

Anyway... I think it's great if they decide to revamp Superman. If it rocks, cool, if it sucks, fuck it, I just won't buy it (I'll buy old issues instead).
I love the Byrne-Wolfman-Ordway-Stern-Jurgens-Perez-Simonson-Kesel-Micheline-Immonen Superman, but it's over, it ended in 1999, and it's not coming back. At least not until the people influenced by this Superman start writing the book and make tributes, but I'd say that's at least a decade away.