Quote Originally Posted by Vordan View Post
I hate to tell you man, but that kind of arguing over continuity is the norm. Spider-Man fans are still to this day arguing over the marriage and whether it should come back. As for Clark himself there were lots of arguments over whether he should reveal his secret identity or not. The current incarnation isn’t really the John Byrne Superman, and hasn’t been for a long time. Our current setup is more like the Busiek/Johns Post-Infinite Crisis guy. Just like how the Pre-Crisis version could be divided into different “Ages” I consider there to be two Post-Crisis versions: Byrne and Johns/Busiek.

The argument over the costume is really an argument about the character’s core: is he outdated or not and if he is, what kind of revamp does he need?
He really hasn't been Byrne's Superman since right around 2000 and the Loeb/Kelly run. They tried to retcon huge chunks of Byrne's vision of Krypton. It just took a couple years until Man Of Steel got retconned away officially,although it's safe to say anything after and including EXILE is back in continuity after the merger in REBIRTH. at least on a surface level. If one goes in too deeply and scrutinizes the lose continuity threads left from taking Byrne's run out of the equation then it all unravels.