>>97587374I actually think that Clark and Diana could work really well - MANY decades later, when living much longer than a mortal and retaining their youth (to whatever degree any given variant of Clark does, since some seem to stop aging and others just age slower), and Clark loses a little of his 'self'/grows into whom he will be a bit more given his longevity.
Clark and Lois is for while he still 'feels' human, and is that farm boy. But people grow an change. No matter how wonderful that identity is it can't last much past living out all his friends and family and seeing the world change as much as it would, while he stands still, a lifetime of tragedies and triumphs behind him. See Superman One-Millions, though they had him as clinging to Lois. And to a lesser extent Kingdom Come Clark.
Diana actually goes through the same sort of arc. She may be ancient (or not, depending on the timeline/run), but she is new to mans world and a normal passage of time, so she too has to be a little more jaded and experience the same walk through life that puts her in the right place mentally.
The Clark of Kingdom Come, whether Diana is well written or not, is a pretty good outline for how it could work. Superman 'lives' while Clark eventually has to 'die'. When all is said and done, he and Diana will have shared a lifetime as the closest of friends, with definite attraction at times, and have (potentially) millennia or forever to figure things out.
I'm WonderBats and ClarkLois short/current terms, but SMWW makes sense in the future.
