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Brian Miller
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Posted: 15 November 2019 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
( or Clark Kent unglassesed). Just saw a tweet that shows in an upcoming issue Superman tells Jimmy he's really Clark. Thanks, Bendis.


Even the execution of it is lame. 
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Jabari Lamar
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Posted: 15 November 2019 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
A bald man who thinks it's unrealistic that  someone with the powers of Superman would ever waste time pretending to be a normal human being. Where have I seen that before?
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Brian Floyd
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Posted: 15 November 2019 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I'm not up to date, but wasn't there a story swirling around that he was going quit being Clark Kent? I guess this is it.
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Joe Zhang
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Posted: 15 November 2019 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
DC's comics are $4.00 now? Are they still putting out their main books twice a month? 
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Mike Norris
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Posted: 15 November 2019 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Dumb idea if it's going to be the "status quo". 
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Steven Myers
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Posted: 15 November 2019 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Mephisto can undo it later.
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Greg McPhee
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Posted: 16 November 2019 at 10:00am | IP Logged | 7 post reply
After the debacle that was the new 52, Dan Jurgens and Peter Tomasi gave us a great Superman again.

Bendis just does his fan wank stuff again. I'm out.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 16 November 2019 at 10:26am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
THIS IS A GREAT IDEA!!! Brilliant! I fully endorse it!!
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 16 November 2019 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
Bendis being Bendis, is anybody really surprised?
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Adam Schulman
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Posted: 16 November 2019 at 1:40pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
Bendis said something to the effect that if Clark gives up being "a mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet" then it opens up the possibility for "a thousand new and different Superman stories."

Sure, Brian. But what if those thousand different stories are all crap?

Yeah, I don't approve. It means Clark never gets to have any semblance of a normal life. He's "on duty" as Superman 100% of the time, and that's it. 

So now he may as well be Wonder Woman or Thor or any other character who lost their civilian identity (admittedly without losing the "core" of the character in those cases -- those were just the first two that came to mind).
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 16 November 2019 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
Mr. Byrne... that was sarcasm, wasn't it? :P

Red kryptonite. It's GOTTA be red kryptonite.

Sure, the hot writer FOTM gets to write whatever he wants. My question is... where the damn editor on this? Who at DC POSSIBLY thought it was a good idea???
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Andrew Bitner
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Posted: 16 November 2019 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply
It appears to be true, a permanent change in the status quo (until the line is rebooted again, anyway) and a bad idea.
I guess it's about the notion of "secret identities" being less credible in this age of no-privacy, where facial recognition software and body language analysis can peel back the protection of a mask... but that doesn't mean a foundational trope of superhero fiction should be tossed aside.
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