Though to me, the whole show had that very broad Disney Channel vibe. Which is very clearly a directorial choice, so I don't especially blame Hudgens. (Alan Tudyk was doing it too, and he's more than demonstrated a range of different styles.)

I don't think there was ever any suggestion that it was in the same world(s) as the CW shows. (Any more than the CW shows are set in the same world as the comics or the animated series or the movies.)

sucked like a Kirby

Maybe in inspiration. But since Damage Control is (initials to the contrary) Marvel, no one involved would admit it if so.

He's like reverse-Batman.

If not an "I guess we never thought to write him down on a list"-er.

That seems to be pretty common (see all the complaints about the offstage Superman in Supergirl season 1), but I don't share it. Using famous characters as background strikes me as giving the world depth, not inherently foreshadowing their appearance. (Especially in a show whose entire premise is that they're as far…

Yeah— I was more surprised to see Olympian show up on television than I would have been by the Legion of Super-Pets.

That was pretty much Bat-Mite in the Batman: the Brave and the Bold finale, wasn't it?

It was sheer elegance in its simplicity.

The premise of what was supposed to be the next episode sounded pretty good. (Lois Lane has apparently been killed, and so they come to the conclusion that their actions today don't count because Superman will reverse time to fix that.) I wish I'd trusted the show to live up to the concept.

"I expect you'll go far, Cadet." "Out of this world!"

Both "Man of Steel" and the Supergirl TV series recast the destruction of Krypton as an anthropogenic environmental disaster.

Well, you can't win them all. (At least that one wasn't Maggin's fault.)

I think Clark Kent, Lois Lane (and Lana Lang and Lex Luthor and Lori Lemaris and…), Dinah Drake, John Jones, Wally West, etc. might dispute that alliteration is peculiar to Marvel.

I know the story, and I agree it's a lot of fun. Pretty much any time Elliot S. Maggin brought in the Guardians and the GLC to interact with the Superman mythos it was a nice synergy— "Must There Be a Superman?" is also great, and ditto the Last Son of Krypton novel.

Since "Sandman: Endless Nights" establishes that Despair was responsible for bringing Krypton into existence in the first place…

Not just since the early 80s. St. Elsewhere had guest appearances and references to older shows, and so did the shows it connects to. (E.g., one of the doctors mentions knowing M*A*S*H's B.J. Hunnicut, St. Elsewhere connects up to "Mad About You" which featured Buddy and Sally from the Dick Van Dyke show, etc.)

In the Silver Age, Jor-El's dad was also named Jor-El (and Lara's mom was likewise named Lara), so…

And the theory was originated by (the unfortunately late) DC Comics superstar Dwayne McDuffie as a sendup/reductio ad absurdum of comics-style expectations of tight continuity shared worlds.