User blog comment:SHTR/A possible way to handle the DCnU and the Original DCU/@comment-1038387-20110920180238/@comment-4471669-20110923015951

"DCnU is still New Earth. Can everyone just get over this?'

I disagree with this statement. Superman, to name only one, is a radical departure from the New Earth character. I still have the Man of Steel miniseries that I purchased in 1986 (along with every Superman comic since then), and feel that what little we've seen so far in DCnU is as far removed from that Superman as Byrne's take was from the Silver Age character.

Look at how much of the Post-Crisis Superman's back story is null and void in the DCnU. Not just the origin (which is still kinda TBD) but nearly every major story arc from then until now. He's a new character, with only some things in common with the '86-Flashpoint Clark. Hell, he's not even supposed to be primarily Clark now anymore, and that alone separates him from the Post-Crisis man of tomorrow.

Sure, events from the past twenty-five years are going to be incorporated into the DCnU. . . just as many Silver Age events were wrapped into the Post-Crisis DCU. But given the changes to his back story (namely the Kents' deaths, his beginnings in Metropolis and his more aggressive personality) I cannot view the DCnU Superman as the one I have known since I was in Grade School.

It's not a bad thing, by any means. I actually like this update a lot. But I do feel as if we have entered another "Age" of DC Comics. It's definitely a more profound change than the one from Golden Age to Silver Age, which was only a change in retrospect.

Some characters are radically changed, others barely changed at all, but the universe as a whole is an entirely different place. I believe that as the DCnU develops we will see that it's time for new profiles, leaving the "New Earth" characters as relics of the past like those from the Golden and Silver Ages.

Kinda like Alexander Luthor Junior said in Infinite Crisis #7, "This isn't Earth One, Superboy. It never really was."

Well, this isn't New Earth; it's something new born from the ashes of the old. That's my two cents.

By the way, I just made an account, but have been a reader for a long time. Great work here, ladies and gentlemen.

~Miz