Originally Posted by
Dataweaver
From YJ to TT:
• Tim made the transition with the least change; though just as in his own book, he started shifting from clever but humble to arrogant know-it-all.
• Kon was reinvented as a hybrid of Superman and Luthor, and went from brash to a generic jock. He also started manifesting more Kryptonian powers, rather than hanging all of his powers on Tactile Telekinesis.
• Bart got a personality makeover (e.g., a crush on Cassie that had never been there before; and irritation that he wasn't being taken seriously, which had never bothered him before), was given a photographic memory, and was maimed in an effort to make him less silly.
• Cassie was rewritten from a kid who got the job by impressing Zeus with her chutzpah to being one of Zeus's many illegitimate daughters. In other words, she was now “born special” instead of having earned her place.
These are some rather drastic changes. So I can definitely relate to Assam's position that Johns replaced the YJ4 with doppelgangers. The fact that Lobdell did so again in 2011 is still bad, but it's not unprecedented.