I’m going to give this another shot, I think. I’ll be skipping over the origin story and jumping into a later point in Superman’s life.

The set-up:
Superman has been working mostly under-the-radar for about 10-12 years now. He’s still been doing hero stuff, but he became rather elusive. He unfortunately abandoned his traditional blue and red attire for a black suit (don’t worry, he’ll go back soon). People have spent over a decade pondering what he’s doing, and some people have become paranoid that he’s turning evil or something (he’s not).

Clark and Lois Kent moved away from Metropolis to a farm in Kansas (maybe inherited from Clark’s parents, maybe a different farm in a different town, we’ll see). Lois works at a small local paper, while Clark runs the farm, with the help of his son Jonathan Kent. Clark notices that Jon is developing into his superpowers, and wonders if it would be a good idea to not only re-introduce himself to the public, but to introduce the new Superboy into the greater heroic world.

I’m taking most of my inspiration from the first few issues of Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s wonderful ongoing run on Superman and erased the shoddy New-52, with elements of Dan Jurgens’ mini-series Lois and Clark, and other bits and pieces from Super-history. Of course, I’m trying to avoid all of the multiverse stuff that was necessary to erase the New-52, and various other elements that are leftover from that dark age of DC.