Come to Canada, Clark Kent

In a bold move last week, (i.e. something that slipped by all the higher-ups) DC Comics had Superman announce that he was renouncing his U.S. citizenship in the 900th issue of Action Comics, the series where the Man of Steel first appeared back in 1938. As is always the case when fictional characters change, the U.S. media lost their minds, with everyone from Bill O’Reilly to Mike Huckabee weighing in on this horrific turn of events. The very handsome hero from an exploded planet justified this decision in-story by saying, “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” which is a reasonable enough justification and an amazingly boring thing for Superman to say.