A lot of people don't seem to like the Mephisto aspect, but I have to say, after twenty years of the comic being stuck in the mud, they could have had The Great Gazoo beam down from Bedrock and say "You're single again, Dum Dum!" and I would have been just as happy. Sometimes the ends justify whatever means gets you from A to B.

And anyone reading the last two years of books with all the crazy revelations and developments therein should have known they were just having a giant clearing house for all the earth shattering developments they couldn't possibly do unless they knew there was a giant re-set button ready to be pushed