If I get time, I'll try to dig up those back issues and see what happened. Or, maybe I'll surf over to the Superman homepage and see if they've got commentary on the story up there.

Alright, here's what I got from the Superman Homepage info:
So, we've got Jor-El and Lara 'alive' on this 'new Krypton' at the end of the story, with a boy who looks like young Clark (which would be the now grown-up Clark we have in this story, explaining why we have both Clark and Superman in the same place at the same time).

Jor-El and Lara are apparently androids, though, which would explain the yellow fluid and no blood when Equus rips Jor-El in half. It would also explain why when Jor-El asks Equus what he is, Equus responds 'Alive.'

You know, I'm starting to think that re-reading that story would help this story make a lot more sense ...

So, the sphere that caused the 'Vanishing' has somehow managed to just send people onto this phantom universe Krypton that Kal-El and Jor-El created ...

Now, I'd like to know how Zod and Ares are linked ... and, I might be wrong, but I think that Zod's new armor looks a lot like the armor that Ares traditionally wears. Compare Ares' new 'Clix sculpt to the last page where we see Zod.

I don't think this is the "return to Krypton" Zone, I think it's THE Phantom Zone and Superman constructed "Metropia" as an emergency evacuation point should Earth be threatened. He constructed a Jor-El defender (so he wouldn't have to do it) and somehow distilled the Clark persona out of himself. I'm really hating this story now. Go to the DarkCrisis review thread to see me take a dump on it.

Two dogs named Zeus and Apollo?? That'd be the groundskeeper on Magnum PI, Johnathan Quail Higgins. I always wondered what happened to him... now I know.

After going back and re-reading the details of the Return to Krypton story, I'm liking the For Tomorrow story a lot more.

Remember, the Krypton of the 'Return to Krypton' story was inside (or, at least 'through') the Phantom Zone.

It would appear that, as a result of the discussion that Kal-El and Lois had then, Superman created Metropia within the Phantom Zone on the Krypton that we last saw Jor-El, Lara, and their son on.

We have no idea how quickly time passes there, but it would be reasonable to think that 'Clark' there is the son of Jor-El and Lara 'all grown up'.

Metropia is clearly Kryptonian architecture.

Is the story perfect? No. Not by a long shot. We took way to long to get to where it is now, and there were too many things just 'thrown in' for no apparent reason.

But, the story's considerably better if you go back and look at all of the threads that Azzarello is tying together in it.

The Superman Homepage reviewer says that the story is bad, not because it's not good, but because it makes the reader 'do the work' and, 'in America, Joe Reader is led by the nose, or not led at all.'

Having gone back and 'done the work' (or, at least a little of it), the story is really making a lot more sense.

OMG! I thought of posting someting like this earlier, when Jacin first posted that about Ares. I just could not, for the life of me remember Higgin's name!

ROTFLMAO!

Actually, at the end of that, wasn't it revealed that he wasn't the groundskeeper, but the guy who actually owned the place ... ?

that is what I always say to my friends and they say "nooooaaaa, can't be"

He hinted he was really Robin Masters, problem there was, a few years before, they showed the Real Robin, tho not his face, it was Orson Welles' voice. And Magnum knew him then.
The big question is, does this mean Higgins was really Ares all along?

on the side, did Bendis write the last story? cause saying Higgins was/is Masters seems some how flawed, knowing Masters had shown up a few years before.

hmm, that might not be Zod afterall, it might be Tom Selleck, cause every job he's taken since Magnum, he's bombed in.

I dont care to much for this new ZOD. I wish they would have made the one from the SM movies. Man I hope I dont pull him

Well you know what they say, want in one hand...............

Anyway, this the Zod that we are getting is IMHO an awesome character, worthy of the name.

Then, they'll get all the Zod's together and let them duke it out, to the death, last one standing is the ultimate Zod... err... maybe not "ultimate", as Marvel would sue someone over that, but you know what I mean.

And Zod loves you