well if you go with the original comic he didn't get the suit until he went of to metropolis. DC changed that after they started to really use superboy. I have always kinda viewed the original superman and superboy as alternate realities. One where his first experience as a super hero is when he goes to metropolis and another where he's had amazing adventures as superboy and as a member of the legion. The series seems more real to me, especially how their dealing with his feeling that the problems in smallville are his fault. The onlything that is bothering me is how young his parents are but that's just because I'm used to seeing them as much older visually. In order for costumes to work they need a reason for being. Spiderman got there because he's a wrestler, the x-man movie dealt with the costumes as uniforms, the batman movies went with an armor aproach. I like the superman costume but I want to see how he rationalizes wearing the outfit. The scene when he's hazed in the cornfield sets up the idea of the "s" on his chest as something from his past. And later when he's called "superman" it will be a way of relating to an event from his past and turning it into something possitive.I always thought that an alien planet with the same alphabet as earth was week. Although I do like the Alex Ross Kingdom come take on the symbol, it's just abstract enough to be believable.