Warning: This article has SPOILERS for Action Comics #10, which hit stores earlier this week. If you haven’t read it yet and don’t want to know, turn back now.
Superman has abandoned the glasses, reporting career and his secret identity. In the latest issue of Action Comics, the Man of Steel decides it’s time to hang up his secret identity as Clark Kent, even going so far as allowing the world to believe Kent has been killed.
Written by Grant Morrison, the issue finds Superman confronting a child killer and threatening him with a heat vision lobotomy, reports ComicBook.com. Of course, the Man of Steel doesn’t go through with it. He later has a conversation with the Justice League about how the group should be addressing the problems of Earth and not just dealing with interstellar threats.
It all leads to Superman walking away from his secret identity. When Clark Kent gets caught up in an explosion, Superman allows the world to think Clark Kent is dead
But it appears that Superman won’t live long without a dual identity. The issue teases that we’ll see the Man of Steel take on a new secret identity in the next issue.
And while Kent is gone in one series, he still exists within the Superman universe. Action Comics takes place five years ago.
Didn’t you already leak a little spoiler with the headline?
You know, it’s about time that Supes picked a new identity. His near godly status and alien physiology would mean he’d outlive the humans around him. Clark Kent would stick out like a sore thumb , having not aged after 50 years.
There’s nothing new under the yellow sun. I can show you a humourous 1940s story in which Clark is apparently killed in an explosion so Supes experiments with a variety of different secret identities.
No more Clark Kent? That happened last year didn’t it?
I liked the one time take from either the 80’s reboot or the animated series that Superman was Clark Kent’s secret ID. That having grown up as CK, that’s who he actually was.