Not too many opinions for me in this case, Carol - ditto everything you say, especially points one, three and six.
There was one point that
could have been taken from this arc, had the writers ever bothered to utilise it - of course, they didn't; once it was over they behaved as if it had never happened. It's the old 'nature versus nurture' argument. Why is Superman the way he is? Why is he driven by the desire to help others, to save humanity, to do good, to set a higher standard? Is it because he's from another planet?
Well, what the NK arc told us is an unequivocal
no. Put any of those New Kryptonians on Earth in Kal-El's place - even Zara - and not one of them would become Superman.
Maybe Ching would've been Batman, but that's another story...
Wendy
