I guess I had heard that this was the direction DC was going with the New 52 business, but I must have either blocked it out or forgotten it. (I could easily have forgotten it - current superhero comics have pretty much fallen off my radar screen.) Actually reading an in-continuity sequence that showed this as the status quo was bit surprising. This is just such a stupid idea that seeing it actualized makes me feel a bit like I am peering into the Bizarro world.
I am sure that the comixweblogosphere (or what remains of it) is all abuzz with deconstructions and interpretations and criticisms pro and con, so I will offer only two succinct arguments:
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane published by National Periodical Publications 1958-1974.
Sixteen years, 137 issues, moving close to half-a-million copies per issue in its heyday.
Excerpt from "For the Man Who Has Everything" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons,
published in Superman Annual #11 (1985) and, as far as I am concerned,
the last, best word on the subject.
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