COMICS: Superman Renounces His American Citizenship In Action Comics #900

Fox news sucks! : P

Good ol' Supes! ; D

An interesting move. I wonder whether this will carry through to the awful "Grounded" arc in the main Superman title. I've not been reading Action Comics, but just like Detective Comics is better than the main Batman series, I might have to pick this up instead.

I think it's a great move to establish Superman as Earth's hero rather than an American Icon.
I'm Irish, and I've been absolutely inspired by the character since my birth.

He's bigger than America.
But keep the denouncement a positive move, it shouldn't be an action out of anything negative.

Should be interesting to see how this news and having cast a Brit for MOS affects domestic US sales.

What does this mean for Supes involement in JLA?

[frick] you Goyer for exploiting this and making it an issue.

Btw, Ror, you can't be anymore "un-American" then to renounce your American citizenship ;p

about time

@ manthingnitsuj
Red Son is a great book,totally agree :)
I'm diggin this development.It makes perfect sense.
@Denn1s
Well said and accurate mate! :)

That's very risky! But, if DC Comics can't take a risk with their most iconic character (actually the most iconic character of any comic book company) then nobody can.

I have mixed feelings about this, because Im so used to Superman being an all-American hero (hell, everybody's used to that!) but it does make sense, and Superman is probably the only character capable of protecting the entire Earth, not just America. Hopefully this doesn't change too much, except maybe more overseas adventures for the Man of Steel, or maybe a nice new story arc featuring the U.S army vs Superman, or even something similar to Marvel's Civil War, with Superman and some other anti-establishment heroes vs the US government and government endorsed superheroes. Actually, I'm pretty excited about this news, and I hardly ever read comic books! (More of a fan of the characters and their history than actual arcs)

I'm also pleasently surprised that there hasnt been a major American backlash on this feed, with a bunch of Americans saying "[frick] superman!" and "[frick] DC!". I'm impressed!

U.S. still have Captain America. *lol*

@superman7, it's SUPERMAN that's renouncing his citizenship, Clark Kent will remain an American Citizen, as the government in the comics would recognize them as two seperate entities (Clark's identity isn't government knowledge, is it?) so it wouldnt affect his marriage, work, etc.

And Superman, as many have said earlier in the comments, was sent to Earth to protect Earth, not just America. And he kind of does need to renounce his american ties in order to protect the rest of the world, if only to remain as a neutral party who is only interested in protecting the world from evil (if he went to a country at war with the USA to save them from a disaster, while being an American citizen this could cause problems, while being nationless would make him more of a figure for Earth's protection, not just America).

Superman belongs to the world, but Clark Kent can still be American couldn't he? :P

Superman7, from what I gather he isn't turning his back on ANYONE, he is simply distancing himself from the American government, not the American people. Now I haven't read the whole issue so I can't go into it too much.

He has to be careful now: Maybe he will be shot down now while trying to land in America witout landing permission... :))

Here is the Fox news article. Wow you people are way off target. How many of you read the article before commenting on it?

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/07/01/new-wonder-woman-loses-patriotic-costume/

BTW, why is Superman using his 4d vision while saying this? (blue and green eyes)?

The Justice League International in the 80´s used the United Nations flag.

They were quite sucessful here in Brazil. Ice and Fire were my favourites along with Blue Beetle and Buster Gold.

The U.S.A. already has enough illegal immigration, so good riddance. Superman lives in the north pole anyways.

Ahem, does Iran and Iraq even exists in the DC universe?
So what happened to "Qurac", the ficctional country that replaces those arab countries? Does David Goyer knows basic DC universe backstory? I think this is reason enough to deport him, since he is lowering the quality of american comics.

@stack: I believe the comments were aimed at the various talking heads at Fox News that fill out the cable channel with their opinions on everything, rather than the dry reporting of the article.

As a liberal American who has no problem with anyone criticizing the government no matter who is in charge of it, I have to admit I don't care for this story idea. It sends the message that it's impossible to be from here and have the larger interests of the world at heart. It also suggests that, if America is unpopular in the world, disassociating himself from the country that raised him is simply easier than serving as a counter example that we are not some form of homogenous hive-mind.