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2011-04-28 Home Front: Culture Wars
Superman to renounce his U.S. citizenship
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Posted by tipper 2011-04-28 10:43|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 racist.
Posted by DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 2011-04-28 11:17||   2011-04-28 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 So...Superman leaves the USA, because the USA did nothing to help Iranian protesters and no longer has American Values?

Typical Kansas racist.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-04-28 11:22||   2011-04-28 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Clark Kent then quits The Daily Planet in protest over a failed attempt to organize for collective bargaining rights. He then moves to Key West to be with his life partner, Jimmy Olson, as he battles depression and substance abuse. He occasionaly pens an eco-justice column for the Huffington-Post - now owned by Lois Lane.
Posted by DepotGuy 2011-04-28 11:23||   2011-04-28 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 And they wonder why no one reads comics anymore.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-04-28 11:45||   2011-04-28 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The genius of Superman is that he belongs to everyone, for the dual purposes of peace and protection. He’s above ephemeral geopolitics and nationalist concerns, a universal agent unlike any other found in pop culture.

He's a fool not to realize that he's giving up his generous Social Security entitlement.
Posted by gorb 2011-04-28 14:16||   2011-04-28 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Clearly racist. Superman hates Obama.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-28 14:17||   2011-04-28 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 So the character introduced in the midst of the Great Depression that had the creed of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" is no longer an American? You will notice that they waited until all of the original writers and illustrators had died off to pull this stunt.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-04-28 14:44||   2011-04-28 14:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Pure cowardice.

If any of the original writers and illustrators were alive today, they surely would be dead by now if they have heard of this.
Posted by gorb 2011-04-28 15:10||   2011-04-28 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 The sales and marketing people probably think they will sell more comics into the "international market" if they strip Superman of his American identity.

Hope it bites them in the ass.
Posted by Leigh 2011-04-28 15:20||   2011-04-28 15:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Uhh, I thought Superman was DEAD?
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-04-28 15:51||   2011-04-28 15:51|| Front Page Top

#11 A few problems - 1. You can only renounce at US Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country and 2. Unless you have citizenship in another nation, the US will not normally accept the renunciation. The G won't make you stateless.
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2011-04-28 15:55||   2011-04-28 15:55|| Front Page Top

#12 ...couldn't come up with that Kansas birth certificate?
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-28 16:01||   2011-04-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#13 I guess he no longer supports truth or justice, nor the American way. So untruth, injustice and the unAmerican way. The Obama administration will love this guy.
Posted by The Other Beldar 2011-04-28 16:44||   2011-04-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I suppose those among us who own comic book shops out here in flyover country are pretty much screwed.

(I don't. Thankfully).
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-28 17:29||   2011-04-28 17:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Who gives a rattus norvegicus posterior about this crap?
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-04-28 17:44||   2011-04-28 17:44|| Front Page Top

#16 You mean this guy?
Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-04-28 18:10||   2011-04-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#17 Clearly racist. Superman hates Obama.

The trauma of discovering that Nobama was born in Hawaii after all was just too much for the poor guy.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2011-04-28 18:21||   2011-04-28 18:21|| Front Page Top

#18 ...and the bureaucratic nightmare of having to get a passport just to go to Canada or Mexico let alone the rest of the world which goes back to that birth certificate thingy.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-28 19:07||   2011-04-28 19:07|| Front Page Top

#19 ..and getting Mexican citizenship means the Fed's won't care.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-28 19:08||   2011-04-28 19:08|| Front Page Top

#20 So is it superman or Clark Kent that is renouncing? Because I never really imagined Superman voted or paid taxes and his only property was on the North Pole.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-04-28 21:20||   2011-04-28 21:20|| Front Page Top

#21 Superman never impressed me as the brightest bulb on the tree. Six bullets bounce off your chest, then you duck when they throw the gun at you?
What a maroon...
Posted by tu3031 2011-04-28 22:46||   2011-04-28 22:46|| Front Page Top

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