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As I was drawing the buildings I was a bit concerned my forced perspective wasn't going to work. I find forced perspectives to be much like my nighttime cityscapes, where I am not really sure they're going to work until they are finished.

Happily, I think this one works!

Like giving us a glimpse of Franklin as a teenager, perhaps endowed with his father's mind as well as the Cosmic Powers.

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There's a problem built into concepts like this. I have talked about what I call the "Superboy Syndrome." That's where writers try to build suspense -- "Will Superboy Survive the Kryptonite Death Trap?" -- which is impossible as long as we can check any issue of Superman's adventures to make sure young Clark survived.

Do a story set in the Future, and it is necessary to avoid all references to the rest of the Marvel Universe (no appearances by a white haired Tony Stark, for instance), or turn the whole universe into a series of Superboy stories.

And what's significant, I think, is that I accomplished this without any radical changes to the character. Didn't have to give her an extra dose of cosmic rays (a la Phoenix), or put her thru some kind of mental trauma (a la Guy Gardner). Just applied her established powers logically.