Superman is giving up his once-promising career in
journalism.
Alter ego Clark
Kent is resigning from the post of star reporter at the Daily Planet, the
Metropolis newspaper where he has worked since the first Superman comics were
published in the 1940s.
DC Comics,
which publishes the Superman stories, says Kent will walk out in protest that
hard news has given way to too many "soft" entertainment stories.
The move has
been prompted by the Daily Planet's takeover by a conglomerate.
The publisher
has hinted that the Man of Steel might even go the way of many journalists and
become a blogger, in an effort to get his views across to a wider audience.
"Why am I
the one sounding like a grizzled ink-stained wretch who believes news should be
about, I don't know, news?" says a disillusioned Kent, according to a
leaked panel from Wednesday's edition of the comic that appeared on the
Newsarama.com website.
New Superman
writer Scott Lobdell told USA Today newspaper: "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."
Source: BBC
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