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Opening Arguments

So long to the mild manners

I guess it had to happen:

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.

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"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."

The most powerful man in the world, sitting at his computer terminal in pajamas to write snarky blog posts. It's a sad day, I tell ya.

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