To be fair to Johns though, Lobdell and co were not all that interested with even exploring those ideas and were more concerned with the never ending crossovers of H'el on Earth/Return of Krypton/Doomed. Sure, Johns didn't need to drop all of it,but when the creators prior weren't either bothered with developing those ideas or weren't allowed to for whatever reason,I don't blame Johns deciding "I'm not interested in dealing with something that wasn't that well defined anyway." and just going back to basics for the story he wanted to tell. Heck for all we know that could have been Berganza's call as the PGN/Clarkcatopolis stuff originated with Matt Idelson.