This is occurring 32 years after Superman debuted so things are naturally different in many ways.
Well that shoots down all my theories. At first I though this was going to be a offshoot from Clark being in Luthor's cage.
I missed anything telling us it was so far in the future. I wonder how it is that Lex Luthor is still around and has become President in a L&C 'verse?
If Clark has been missing 10 years, that still gave him 22 years to do something about Luthor.
