Just when I thought that they couldn't mess up Superman any more...

[ffutures]

...they're making him quit the Daily Planet

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/10/22/clark-kent-daily-planet-quitting/

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Can't be any worse than when he became a news anchor in the 70's.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I don't really recall - wasn't that just for a few months?

[agent13.livejournal.com]

It started in '71 with Superman #233, and Clark remained a TV anchor until Crisis in '86, I believe.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Good grief - but I wasn't reading many comics in that period, I guess I missed most of it.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Did they ever have Superman exist in the same universe as George W Bush?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think that would have been the Luthor presidency.

[ymfaery]

Didn't he leave the Planet to be an editor at a different newspaper at one point? But that turned out to conflict too much with his superhero stuff and had to go back to the Planet? I'm not sure when this happened, just remember reading about it in a Lois & Clark-themed graphic novel.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Don't remember that one, but there have been all sorts of short-term changes. This looks like a bigger deal.