From the Counselling Session with Dido...
Q: Why has Super Boy's Prime's origin been changed from being adopted by a career couple (in his origin story) to farmers (in the Secret Files)?
DD: Between the Continuity Waves and formation of the single “New Earth”, the origins of the two Supermen and Prime melded and now, for the most part, they share a similar timeline.
'Melded... and share a similiar timeline'? So what, Superman-Prime is maybe now retconned as a version of Kal-El from the past, when he was Superboy? Kal-L is now instead retconned as an older version of Superman from the future? BAFFLING. :shock:
Q: On "new Earth" will Clark Kent have been Superboy?
DD: Hmmmmmmmmm………….
WHAT?! ...is he Superboy now or isn't he? Batman and Wonder Woman get their rightful origins restored, but not Supes? Why the ambiguity?
Will be picking this up on Friday, but I have to say disappointing. A sad and crushing end for Kal-L, and an utterly disappointing one for Prime and Alexander Luthor... three of whom were heroes pivotal to the the ultimate defeat of the Anti-Monitor of the original Crisis. I had hopes that the multiverse would be restored, that the post-Crisis Earth would function as the template for the rebirth of the Mutliverse which would have been brought about by the energies released after Luthor's tower was destroyed, (and we would learn that it was scheme all along set up by the Monitor before his death. Hence the twist, it was not the Anti-Monitor, but his double behind it all!). As such, Kal-L, Prime and Alexander would be sent back to their respective universes as they were before the original Crisis, (in my imaginary scenario, Kal-L would be reunited with a happy and healthy Lois on Earth-2, Prime would be his young, teenage self, and with no memories of either Crisis on Earth-Prime and Alexander would be reduced to being a newborn baby of Lex and Lois Luthor on Earth-3).
Sigh... fanfic anyone?