Superman to Daily Planet, Take this job and shove it
By
fur_nes,
Posted on: 2012-10-22 20:52 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Circulation dropping again?
You know they've done stuff like this before. For years in the 70's Clark Kent was the news anchor on "WGBS" instead of a reporter for a paper. Eventually a movie or TV series comes along and they stick him back at the paper. They always come back around to the original concepts and situations for these characters.
Really, Clark being a reporter at all is a holdover from the earliest days of the character, where he used the position to get "breaking news" that he could act on as Superman. (Because there was almost nothing else. Radio news existed, but it wasn't big into investigative journalism)
These days, the idea that Clark works for a giant thriving big-city newspaper is almost more unrealistic than that he comes from space and can fly. Having him run a blog by himself also removes most of the "hur hur his disguise is a pair of glasses" criticism, since now his disguise is that he has complete anonymity to his readers and no co-workers to have to worry about.
... all that said, it's both sad to see the death of a long-standing aspect of the character, and, as Synergy One said, almost 100% certain to be reverted to the status quo when the next movie comes around. The Daily Planet (along with Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, and Lois Lane) is too tied in with the overall Superman mythos.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Synergy One
You know they've done stuff like this before. For years in the 70's Clark Kent was the news anchor on "WGBS" instead of a reporter for a paper. Eventually a movie or TV series comes along and they stick him back at the paper. They always come back around to the original concepts and situations for these characters.
|
I remember for a while he was doing both!
"And for us this is the end of all stories, and we can mostly say they lived happily ever after. But for them it was the beginning of the real story. All there life in this world and all there adventures in Narnia had only be the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of The Great Story which no one on earth has ever read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before" - C.S Lewis, The Last Battle.
I hate the whole DC reboot anyhow..all art no story.
Quote:
In some places there isn't even art....|
Originally Posted by fur_nes
I hate the whole DC reboot anyhow..all art no story.
|
I have to admit though, the opening salvo of the Batman "Death of the Family" arc was good. Let's see how the rest plays out.
Freedom
Blueside: Knight'Hawk, lvl 50, Scrapper
Yellowside: Dark'Falcon (Loyalist), lvl 20, Blaster
That Stinging Sensation #482183
Hahahaha. It isn't all bad. All he has to do is put some Wayne Enterprises click ads on his site and he'll be set for life.
If I were writing the book, I'd keep to the core parallels: New York City and the New York Times. The NYT still has a large readership as well as a significant online presence. Based on what I've seen, I don't think the current creative team is thinking about the overall aspects of these stories. Something that goes for all of the new DC comics I've encountered. (Admittedly I don't read any of them regularly, just ones and twos here and there.)
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
So according to this article. Issue 13 of Superman has Clark Kent quitting the Daily Planet and opting to report news via online blog posts. Not really sure on what to make of it. Think I'm going to wait a bit and let this bit settle in.
Paragon Unleashed Forums
Twitter: @Alpha_Ryvius