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The ending of KC has them in the restaurant. You might be thinking of that JSA storyline where he goes back to his home Earth and I thought that was Kon. Or his descendant. I know that the end of KC has a slice of the cake that he baked when he left Smallville but that's more of an Easter egg type thing. I know that the Jor-El and Lara in the fortress was the post-Crisis one but being out of continuity means it can be whatever you want.
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And the JSA story was Ross and Geoff John’s if I remember correctly. Waid didn’t have anything to do with it.
I've never bought a Black Label book, but this team and character might change that. It's actually kind of exciting to think about the possibilities, especially if this story doesn't have to tie into main universe continuity.
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I could be remembering things wrong, but was it Waid or Ross who wanted the ending to originally be Superman being the only the survivor? So the “happy ending” may not be what he wanted in the first place. He’s said Kingdom Come was supposed to be what happened when things went spectacularly wrong, so the idea it ends in the Legion, Clark’s legacy of greatness, doesn’t really fit the theme of the story. It fits more with his comments that most people miss the point of the book entirely.
Given all that, I think it’s unlikely Waid will revisit Kingdom Come at all going forward, much less connect Birthright, his vision of pure classic Superman to a story where he fails and everything goes wrong.
Think it was Ross. Waid wanted Superman to stop the bomb because he didn’t want Superman to fail. I believe it was Ross who was pushing to have Supes do a lot of the bad stuff he does simply to get across that Clark has lost his moral compass. Waid didn’t want Superman to be so consistently wrong lol. Yeah I don’t see him connecting the two, although I also think Waid is still proud of KC. Morrison has also complained about people taking ASS as empty “feel good Silver Age nostalgia bait” when that wasn’t at all what they intended. You can be disappointed at what people take away from your story while still being proud of the work you did.
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