> BIRTHRIGHT didn't take the everything you know is a lie route. That was intended more as a re-boot.

Time was altered by the events of Superman 200 and a new timeline -- the Birthright timeline -- resulted.  Nothing was revealed to be a lie ... things were just changed via reboot.

> Maybe you're thinking of the RETURN TO KRYPTON arc. Reportedly suggested by Walt Simonson, this story said that the Silver Age Krypton was the true Krypton and that the MoS version was a facade.

The RETURN TO KRYPTON  Kypton was a construct of Brainiac's design.  It wasn't "true" at all and it didn't supplant anything in continuity or *reveal anything as a lie."  IT was a lie, in fact.

_Frank Robert

QUOTE: EYKIAL **** Isn't he one of the Eternals?

I was thinking he was a Deviant.

I think sometimes you serve the book best by saying "It's only a comic book" and doing what needs to be done. Peter Parker was called "Peter Palmer" at some point in his origin issue. One way of dealing with that is to manufacture an entire second character with his own separate backstory and retcon  him into that world, carefully explaining how one got confused with the other with the obsessive forensic detail of Perry Mason just before the end credits.

Another way to go: acknowledge that it was a dumb mistake and pretend it never happened. Why waste time?

Imagine that back in the Nineties, an increasingly-desperate writer tried to save his book from cancellation by announcing that a character with 40 years of continuity was actually a gay vampire doppelganger controlled by aliens. It got cancelled three issues later regardless. Now it's ten years later. A new writer has a terrific idea for this character. Should he solve the Gay Alien Vampire Robot problem, or just assume that (a) almost nobody knows about that stuff, and more importantly (b) nobody cares?

Refusing to acknowledge past history is often just a lame, lazy way of avoiding having to come up with ideas. But sometimes, it's just the right thing to do.

And sometimes these charcaters mean something to someone. There are a lot of people who went...huh ? Vision ? Um ok....hes a robot again when WCA came out. And others who SCREAMED Byrne messed with the heart of the Avengers. Ethier way Byrne went through and researched all the orgin tales that had been told and made one cohesive story out of it. Would have been a lot easier to say,,,hey let's have She Hulk kill Hawakeye to sell some books...we will always find a way to bring him back later....it's just a comic book.

Some charcater is always someone's favorite, and just cause the writer doesnt care about them, doesnt mean they should get to write like they dont care about them. Every character has a backstory that someone at some point int heir life thought about and contributed to it. And to say....its onoly a comic book and no one cares about this guy anyways is just more lazt writing to me.