| Posted: 05 October 2026 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | 1
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I came on at just the right time as a reader to not really 'miss' Superboy. By the early 80's, Kara had become the 30th Century visitor, though even there she was only an infrequent presence - meaning that her death in Crisis as told in the Legion of Super Heroes wasn't about HER as much as it was about Brainiac 5. As an aside, I don't know that Kara herself ever got the elegy she really deserved in the comics or (more importantly and tellingly) fandom at the time.
For an event that was intended to clear up a confusing* continuity, it sure feels like DC Editorial went out of their way to re-confuse it from the get-go. About the best take on its legacy was in (of all places) Grant Morrison's Animal Man, which picked up the thread of the Psycho-Pirate's lone recall of prior continuity and how it dovetailed with Buddy's old existence, all pretty elegantly. Though Morrison later became the second-greatest perpetrator of exhausting continuity-porn with X-number of follow-up Crises, a good example of an author not knowing when to move the hell on.
*Confusing is, of course, an entirely subjective condition and is really on the reader to sort out their response.
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