The Concept and Characters: It’s been a couple of decades (and a half) since the young Clark Kent put on the super-tights and flew around Smallville as a boy. This relaunched series doesn’t return to those days, but, rather, sticks with the Modern Age Superboy, the former high-top-fate sportin’, leather jacket wearin’, asymmetrical strap stylin’ Conner Kent, the would-be Superman who sprung out of the famous “death” of his namesake back in 1992.
Presumably, in the new DC continuity launching this fall, Clark Kent will never have been Superboy, so Conner (aka Kon-El) will be the one and only guy to go by that name. That’s been the case ever since Crisis on Infinite Earths (other than a brief exception when a young Clark started hanging around with the Legion of Super-Heroes), and if you lost track of Conner Kent after Superman returned from his not-quite death, then you would have missed out on plenty of excellent stories involving the boy of steel. The character went from a Metropolis-based Poochie the Dog to a character with real heart and substance.
So much heart and substance that Geoff Johns killed him off in 2006’s Infinite Crisis, giving that series the tragedy it needed to resonate. But don’t worry, Conner was resurrected (as is the custom with superheroes), and went on to even greater heights, most recently in an Eisner-nominated series written by Jeff Lemire.
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