Yeah! I've been seeing a bunch of these around twitter along with just the general dying down of the "age him down" crowd, and it warms my heart. Chances are it means that the a lot of people interested in the book are totally new to either comics or worrying about Superman outside of a movie or two, and that's what I want to see from this book.
And with it being Jon specifically you can, ironically enough, introduce this new and young Superman to anyone without having to really explain much of anything. You literally just go "he's Clark Kent and Lois Lane's son, and he's Superman now because his dad had to leave Earth" then BOOM go! The space stuff, Legion stuff, and even aging up is all just window dressing as far as the pitch and draw for the book goes, and that's something that's genuinely unique to Jon-- his strength of concept. In the Superman myth that level of readability is only overshadowed by the The Guy himself.
So when I explain it to my friends there's never going to be a point where their eyes glaze over. And what's even nicer is that Taylor will be flexing those adaptation muscles of his and he'll be doing some streamlining with Jon's origin, and maybe other stuff too.
https://twitter.com/tomtaylormade/st...143601152?s=21
Taylor:
"We've tried to consolidate the three different versions of the birth into one 'prime' birth. "
I'm hoping that the fact that Earth-3 has been rebooted, it's not mentioned in the solicitation for issue #1 even though everything else is, and Taylor joked about how confusing the age up was in an interview means that he's been given the go-ahead to heavily edit it to maybe just being his time in space with Jor-El aging him up, or growing up with the Legion maybe?
I'm sure as someone who has produced and written a cartoon he's aware of how to navigate the situation for maximum readability for the viewer/reader. I plan on celebrating issue #1 by buying all my friends copies, and then continuing to buy them copies for the whole first arc. This really could be my guy, and I can't contain my hype anymore.