(Image from Minnesota Wildflowers)

Basically I'm concerned because while I think the friendship backstory was slowly evolving into something more interesting in pre-crisis before it was cut off at the knees, especially under Maggin's purview, most Superboy stories haven't used Lex well in practice (i.e. he was either Superboy's helpful friend or mini supervillain with no in-between.)

I have this awful suspicion that Last Days, as an homage to Maggin's take on Lex, was Waid getting it out of his system. I'm worried what we'll get from him in a take set in main canon is going to be more aligned with what we've seen from other Superman writers. Currently Clark and Lex's Smallville origin is in this odd in-between status of being canon and not... "They knew each other in Smallville but they weren't friends". And I find this wishy-washiness really frustrating because it misses the point of having Lex there.

And Waid's already made some decisions in this run which run counter to his previous Clark and Lex stories. It's treating Smallville as the idyllic place where Clark feels accepted, at least as Superboy. I thought the stuff about him feeling isolated as Clark because he had to differentiate him from Superboy was interesting. But I'm kind of worried he's pivoted away from the idea of Clark actually being an outsider, now that he gets to shunt that onto Clark Kent. He's always treated the crux of their relationship as both being outsiders and now how Clark feels about that is up in the air.

Though, it is interesting that Clark (and possibly the Kents) don't seem to be aware that he's an alien yet.