Yeah, but who the hell was Superboy-Prime, anyway? I'm all for giving respect to characters with history, but the thing here is this: at least as a villain Superboy-Prime has a personality...and something to do. It's not like he was Hal Jordan, who is universaly beloved and has a history of writers giving him a strong characterization and a real personality, and who, further, fulfills a niche in DC ecology.
I shed a tear when HAWKWORLD and LONGBOW HUNTERS made Hawkman and Green Arrow unrecognizeable and conceptually divorced, not to mention unoriginal trend-trollers. But why are we getting all sentimental about Superboy-Prime, anyway? My attachment is to the Pre-Crisis DC history, and Superboy-Prime was a character created for Crisis that didn't survive Crisis.
Hmmmm. How to explain.....Look at him
SB-Prime is the closest thing we are ever going to get to the original Superboy...THAT is what it is all about. He had the same personality, everything except the history (the original Superboy knew who and what he was from a young age)
SB-Prime could have slipped into the role easily and would have been accepted. And would have been better than what we ended up with...Kon (superpunk) El....gag.
When they did this to him...they soiled the image of the original Superboy.
So it was not so much Superboy Prime they destroyed...it was the Image he represented to many fans...the TRUE Superboy.
That's reason enough to be disgusted, don't you think?
Dylan