This week, in the latest issue of Action Comics, there is a scene of Lex Luthor standing in front of the statue that was created when Superman died. However, it was now next to a statue of Superboy, seemingly having died in Infinite Crisis... BEFORE the final issues of Infinite Crisis were to come out.
A quick commentary on this thought process...this would technically be the first POST SUPERBOY era issue, thus making it the clear collector's item, however, it won't be...the issue of Infinite Crisis where both Superboy (E1) and Superboy Prime collide and die will be the collector's issue.
What I wonder is...does anyone really care about Conner Kent? The fact that he was a clone of Superman's DNA mixed with Lex Luthor's DNA was a huge shock element, and the fact that he turned on his peers due to the words that Luthor hid in him was cool. Mix that with the fact that him and Wondergirl just had their first sexual experiences together (thus leading to the possibility of a child) and more, this character was getting interesting...but getting interesting is not BEING interesting.
I worry that this happening was too early, since the character had only been created when the death of Superman occurred, meaning, he hadn't been around that long.
When the FLASH died in Crisis on Infinite Earths, he was a character with twenty years of TRUE history, and 50 years of Legacy. This Superboy was 10 years old (MAYBE) with no real established Legacy to anything other than the S wrapped in black.
Maybe I'm being hard on the creators, but this one seemed like it was done at the wrong time.
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