Earth 2 #19

I finally figured out where I had seen the current incarnation of Earth 2 Superman. Back in 80's when Grant Morrison did a run on Animal Man, he introduced us to a parallel universe version of Superman where the Man of Steel hadn't been all that upstanding and contacted a super-STD which would drive him insane. Even the costume is vaguely similar. Aside from this little fun fact, this book just keeps confusing the stuffins out of me. Earth 2 is a fresh look at the heroes of the Golden Age. WRONG! Earth 2 is a new look at the heroes of the Golden Age if they had evolved into Jack Kirby's Fourth World. WRONG! This book is just a confusing hodge-podge of ideas. If Tom Taylor's storyline has a foreseeable ending point, I certainly can't figure it out and with each new character that is introduced, we get farther away from the whole Golden Age premise the book was suppose to be founded on. Lois Lane's consciousness in the body of a female Red Tornado? Jimmy Olsen as a threat to National Security because he has a photographic memory? A female Aquaman? Now I'm not unkind. I say let the currently storyline finish up at issue #25. Darkseid wins and the Earth (2) is destroyed. Then get me James Robinson on story and Don Kramer on art and lets get back to the 1940's where Earth 2 belongs!