Quote: Frank and I have our own way of integrating all the previous takes but we don't dwell on the origin or the early years, so it doesn't really affect what we're doing. Our story catches up with Superman as he is now. Everybody knows the basics anyway, so we'd rather do something new.
Now that's what I'm fucking talking about. Integrate and move on at the same time. The only way to do something worth reading in superhero comics is accepting the genre's past AND moving forward. Examples: Madman, Animalman. And by accept the past I don't mean it in the anal retentive continuity way: I mean accepting what the character has actually been, in real life, as an icon, through the years. A continuity bigger than all continuities, more real, and, for once, actually important to real people.
They tried this with Birthright last year, remember? A combination of DC's ineptitude and anal-retentive continuity puritanism sank the series like a boulder in quicksand. I don't see where this will fare any better, especially since Morrison, like Waid, has been tarred and feathered for daring to appreciate the pre-Byrne Superman and trying integrate it into the modern comics.
I'll give this a shot, as it sounds like something I myself would like (as was the case with Birthright and the similarly maligned Trinity), but I don't see it being a hit by any means. The fandom is too selfish and exclusive to allow any kind of break from the 1986-onward way of doing things.
