[quote=@Lord Wraith]
Well we're almost a week into the IC and already on our third page so out of curiosity, what are the driving factors and influences in your story?[/quote]

Well, [i]Kingdom Come[/i] is the most obvious influence-- despite my utter loathing of present-day Mark Waid and everything he stands for, his book is still one of my absolute favorite stories.  Apart from that, I've wanted to do an "Old Man Logan" sort of take on Clark for a while now, and frankly over the last couple of years I've become pretty bitter and disillusioned toward the state of the cape-and-tights industry and fandom, so I figured I'd take a shot at it while I'm in this particular state of mind.  Some of the grumpy-old-man Clint Eastwood movies definitely have some influence on what I've got in mind, especially [i]Gran Torino.[/i]  And probably the biggest influence once the arc actually gets moving is Grant Morrison's [i]Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery.[/i]

The parallel-universe angle also means I can do that without overriding what Gowi wants to do with Kara, so I can tell this sort of self-contained story, an ending while everyone else's stories are beginning.  I have ideas for if I want Old Clark to stick around past one season, but I'm going into it with the mentality that this'll be a one-shot.