>>104149558>You're projecting your need for this to fit into standard DC continuity.I mean, it could theoretically work either way, couldn't it?
If it's an Elseworlds (which I'm considering it as, incidentally), then it's an Elseworlds. If it's meant to be mainline continuity, then I figure King will probably want to follow up on it in some bigger event down the line (or specify this takes place in the future or whatever, didn't he mention a while back it was tied into Metal in some way?)
Way I look at it, just because it's an Elseworlds doesn't mean Superman and Batman and all the rest of the DCU doesn't exist. He goes out drinking with Ted and Booster at one point.
After he kills Darkseid, Metron appears and basically says "you're not where you're supposed to be, check it out", and now in the last issue we have him outright admitting that he's NOT where he's supposed to be, but he doesn't care because whatever the "real" world is isn't as real to him as the family he's made for himself.
You can make that "real" world the standard DC continuity or whatever else you want it to be, but that's what this story is about. Scott chooses to live in the place he's ended up (be it Heaven, Hell, something to do with the Anti-Life Equation, an alternate Earth, or whatever) rather than the place he supposedly belongs. And it's left ambiguous as to whether or not that's the right decision to make.
