Originally Posted by
SuperCrab
I liked the bit with "Clark" in the Daily Planet newsroom. Felt like a really warped version of old times. They've got to find a way to get the real Clark Kent back there doing his thing. After the whole Truth arc, one of the things I was looking forward was getting back the investigative reporter day job dynamic, and it looks not only will our Superman not be alive to be doing that, but that the fake Superman they're bringing in isn't taking the job either. When's the last time we've had a Clark Kent, any Clark Kent, who's also Superman, coming into work 9 to 5 at a newspaper? Rebirth is reportedly, at least to begin with, moving away from that dynamic just as the pre-Rebirth stuff was. It's like they want to ditch it, but they know they have to toss their fans a bone and tie the occasional story in somehow to the old setting and cast.
I wonder if this convict turned psuedo-Clark Kent winds up actually taking on Clark's DNA and becoming the non-Super Clark Kent of the post-Rebirth books. Maybe just the Clark Kent half of his spirit generates himself a new body. Although, really, somehow bringing the convict into it would be a decent take on the whole "It's never too late to do the right thing" Superman redemption type theme.
Wonder Woman showing up at the end at the Fortress asking why the hell hasn't Superman told her about what's happening yet is a good question.
I don't really have much comment on the Supergirl stuff. It got them from point A to point B, and set up her book. I won't be reading her book (If I'm reading any of these books after Rebirth, which is unlikely right now), but I understand why they wanted to set it up a bit here. Obviously, it's well within character for Kal-El to track her down, "rescue" her, and give her a key to the Fortress.
Actually, the future of the Fortress of Solitude is an interesting question. By all rights, it really should be Kara's. She's the last Kryptonian on earth from this universe. It's her heritage. Superman is her cousin. SuperDad is not from that Krypton, it's not from his Fortress. I understand that when you're telling a Superman tale, it makes logical sense that whomever your Superman is gets Superman's traditional home away from home, but whether it'll make storyline sense to give him a key is a different story. Locking out Superdad from stuff like that might be a good way of getting across that this is not our Superman continiously, if they want to remind readers of that to prep for (hopefully) the return of this universe's real Superman. On the other hand, if as I fear, this is a permanent change and they are going to try to quickly move past Superdad not having been there as this universe's Superman all along, you can expect him to be in the Fortress of Solitude as if he's been using it for decades pretty quickly. It'd be pretty funny if he tried to approach and it shot him down.