Originally Posted by
Superfly Frankenstein
I like your idea, but I think we might have to expand on it. Let’s do like you said and basically give us a slightly tweaked Post-Crisis timeline. We know by using other timelines, the penultimate chapter in Superman’s life is Doomsday and it happened “roughly” 10 years after his debut. It is easy to shoot the wedding of Clark and Lois about a year later and we could tweak it to where she gets pregnant shortly after during the ElectroSupes storyline.
So, putting a KonEl that doesn’t age right away in Reign of Superman, we can put the Death/Return saga at, say, year nine. Jon is born in year 11. Superman debuts at age 22. This would make him 43 (which works, because that would give him the time to be the epic character he is), if KonEl began aging, we could put him physically at around 19-20. Jon would be right at 10. Basically, everything after Lex becoming president would have Jon somehow in the picture, but living with The Kent’s in Smallville to keep him out of harms way with Clark and Lois flying out to visit four-five times a week.
This way, you could tweak other corners of the universe as well. We know Tim Drake was Robin during Death/Return of Superman, so let’s slightly age him down to 12. This would make him early 20s as well using this sliding timeline. We have Barry die in Crisis around year 6, meaning he was around long enough to be a legend and it gives Wally about 8-10 years as The Flash before he returns. Kyle became GL in year 10, and held that mantle for about 5 years as the only GL. Infinite Crisis happened around year 16 (which makes the line about the last time Superman inspired anyone was when he died from Batman hit harder), Final Crisis year 17 followed by Blackest Night, Flashpoint, etc.
If they used something LIKE this, you could find a way to please all fans. For example, some or all of the silver age stories could be tweaked and folded into those first 5 years before Crisis.
Just a thought.