Superman Quits Day Job at Newspaper Daily Planet! What's Next for Clark Kent?

Clark Kent will relinquish his job at the metropolis newspaper, Daily Planet, in the forthcoming issue of DC Comics, "Superman #13", which is due for Wednesday release.

Kent, who has been working as a reporter, ever since the first Superman comic in 1938, will quit the job over quibble with his boss at Daily Planet. The development is touted to have scripted to point out the prevailing issues in the present day media industry, which is virtually staggering to strike a balance between news and entertainment.

Editor-in-Chief at Daily Planet will presumably influence Superman's alter ego reporter Kent's decision of quitting his day job. Morgan Edge, who controls the newspaper, yells at Kent for not bringing in enough scoops for the front page, prompting the mild-reporter take on the boss over the condition of today's journalism.

"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," Superman writer Scott Lobdell explains, reported USA Today.

"Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and treating him like the least important person in the world?," added Lobdell.

It seems like the new Superman writer wants to mirror the reality of blurring ethics in the field of journalism in the upcoming issue. "In Superman #1 Clark Kent, after a heated discussion with Morgan Edge (the owner of The Daily Planet's parent company, Galaxy Broadcasting), leaves his position as a reporter at The Daily Planet. This is the beginning of a multi-faceted storyline that will challenge Clark on all levels - personally and professionally, as both himself and as Superman. This is not the first time in DC Comics history that Clark Kent has left the Planet, and this time the resignation reflects present-day issues - the balance of journalism vs. entertainment, the role of new media, the rise of the citizen journalist, etc. Over the next several issues, readers will enjoy the many surprises in store for Clark, as the "H'el on Earth" storyline unfolds," the DC Comics said in a statement, according to Zap2it.com.

If you think that Kent will join the rival newspaper to revenge his ex-boss, think again. Lobdell hinted that he may start up his own online publication.

"I don't think he's going to be filling out an application anywhere. 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," USA Today quoted the writer saying.  

A major change in Superman's decade-old professional life is a result of publisher's "The New 52" revamp programme, which started last year to reboot its entire line of its monthly superhero comics. As part of the makeover, DC Comics suspend all of its existing titles, besides introducing 52 new series.