God that is such a stupid retcon. Makes Darkseid look like he is completely insane too when you consider the fact that at one point he had a conversation with a previous version of himself before blasting said version into oblivion. By making all the versions of Darkseid out to be Avatars of the same entity that more or less made that incident out to be Darkseid just playing around with his toys/avatars, or outright insane and talking to himself. It's like the writers didn't have a clue of the ramifications of such a retcon would have on previous events.
Be careful with respect threads dude. They tend to have scans taken grossly out of context and aren't generally reliable.