Take This Job and Shove It!
METROPOLIS—“The Daily Planet has a new job opening. In Superman issue 13, the Man of Steel’s alter ego, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, quits the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the DC Comics superhero’s earliest days in 1940. . . .
“‘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,’ [comic author Scott] Lobdell explains. . . .
“‘I don't think he's going to be filling out an application anywhere,’ the writer says. ‘He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from.’”
—Brian Truitt, “Clark Kent makes a major life change in new ‘Superman’: Mild-mannered reporter leaves The Daily Planet,’” USAToday, Oct. 23, 2012
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