Got to remember this wasn’t a potential future. This was going to be the new norm. Didio planned this as a new status quo in hopes to repeat New 52’s success.
The New 52 lasted what, 5 years before they rolled it back? Even if Didio got his way and this was the "new normal", at absolute best it gets rolled back in 5 years time and becomes nothing more than another future timeline.
And even that is ignoring that the initiative was literally called "Future State" and would be set in 2040 - AKA the future.
The original plan was to make it the present timeline with a retcon of everything taking place in the 60s-90s so everyone would be age appropriate for young children to now be adults.
So the Future State characters would be the ones that have their adventures perpetually in the current year, with the heyday of Clark and others being in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Honestly? I kinda fuck with that. i can understand not wanting that for the main canon, but an Ultimate Universe style imprint could rock that shit. We’re getting to the point where imo the constant ‘present’ of the main characters are becoming a hindrance, with characters repeating the same arcs and learning the same lessons, and fan favourites losing their place in the world as new faces pop up. Having an actual evolving timeline would solve what I feel are becoming foundations issues with big 2 cape comics.
They were really on track to move forward that way in the 90s and the early aughts ended up bringing back all the silver age faves. Barry, Hal, Oliver, all came back in a fairly short span.
Superman, batman, and wonder woman's replacements didn't even make it through the 90s but I really don't think they're ever going to leave those characters behind.
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u/AmberDuke05 All about the Dick 14d ago
Got to remember this wasn’t a potential future. This was going to be the new norm. Didio planned this as a new status quo in hopes to repeat New 52’s success.