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Superman may have more time to fight crime since he's out of a day job: His alter ego, Clark Kent, quits his job at the Daily Planet in 'Superman' #13.
Clark Kent is quitting the newspaper business in a single bound.
Superman’s alter ego leaves his post at The Daily Planet - a post the character has held since his 1938 debut - in an issue hitting comic book stores Wednesday.
Moreover, in a twist that’s sure to get Perry White to cry, “Great Caesar’s Ghost,” Kent quits in the middle of the Planet’s newsroom while giving a Aaron Sorkin-style sermon on the media.
“This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that aren't really his own," Scott Lobdell, the writer of “Superman” issue #13 told USA Today.
"Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and treating him like the least important person in the world?"
Kent’s career move is part of DC Comics’ so-called “New 52” - a reboot of their entire line last year to unshackle writers and artists from 70 years worth of dense continuity and allow them a chance to take the super heroes in new directions.
The new-look Superman, for example, has yet to date Lois Lane and wear his trademark red trunks.
"We knew we were making big changes, we knew there would be fan outcry, but the thing that really guided us was the cool, great possibilities that could come out of something like this," DC co-publisher Jim-Lee told the News last year.
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