He completely killed my interest for anything he does with this one. What a chode.
this is the worst possible scenario for SBP. He's returned home as he wanted, but things are no longer the same. Far from it in fact. And he has no powers plus he reads about the further adventures of Conner as Superboy when SBP fully believes HE is the one, true Superboy. He's gone from one of the most powerful forces in the universe to a bratty teenage who sits in his basement and frequents message boards. This is a living hell for him and a much more original solution. It's better than chaining him to the wall of the Source or having him kill himself on the moon with a Kree ray gun or getting blasted by Omega Beams or even having Bullseye ram a sai thru him. This is the kind of solution, IMO, that Alan Moore or Grant Morrison would come up with. And, IMO, its pretty permanent.
The more SBP reads of the stories in the DCU since his departure the more nuts he'll get because he isn't a stable person and he obsseses about all things Superboy. I just hope that every so often we can get a shot of him tearing up an issue of Adventure Comics or pounding away on a keyboard. Or better yet, having his dad pull a Red Forman and threaten to put a foot up his..well, you know.
It didn't look like his dad was going to be doing anything like that soon. Both his parents are terrified and it sounded like he probably killed his old girlfriend Lori. Great punishement if they had left him de-powered at the end.
Just from what I saw at the reviews it would appear he has powers: the glowing eyes, the terrified parents, the remark about killing his girlfriend. I think Johns was going for a quasi-
Twilight Zone scenario where you have the "kid" with powers keeping his family trapped in his home and terrified. However, that begs the question why he's sitting in his basement typing on a computer and not taking over the world or trying to pierce the interdimensional barrier.
Edit: In fact, now that I read the synopsis of that "Zone" episode and remember more about it, I'd say that Johns is overtly saying that SBP is in almost the exact same scenario:
- Six-year-old Anthony Fremont looks like any other little boy, but looks are deceiving. He is a monster, a mutant with godlike mental powers. Early on, he isolated the small hamlet of Peaksville, Ohio. In fact, the handful of inhabitants do not even know if he destroyed the rest of the world or if it still exists. Anthony has also eliminated electricity, automobiles, and television signals. He controls the weather and what supplies can be found in the grocery store. Anthony creates and destroys as he pleases, and controls when the residents can watch the TV and what they can watch on it.
The adults tiptoe nervously around him, constantly telling him how everything he does is "good", since displeasing him can get them wished away "to the cornfield", where they are presumably met by a less-than-happy ending.
My guess is that SPB is "trapped" in his own personal Peaksville, able to use his powers against the people there but completely isolated and forever immature.
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