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The exciting hero doing mundane slice of life schtick can work, if it's written well and focuses on other sources of drama besides having superpowers. The entire Dragonball franchise features several episodes where the all-powerful, world destroying characters are just dicking around and interacting with their families. One Punch Man builds an entire series premise on a man who's so powerful, all of his fights end in easy victory, so the plot has to focus on his day to day living struggles and his interactions with weaker superheroes. The "hero doing mundane things" schtick can also be harnessed for comedy. Zim Eats Waffles is exactly what it says on the can, an episode of Invader Zim where Zim does nothing but eat waffles, much to the chagrin of his enemy Dib, who is hoping to catch Zim doing something nefarious on camera so Dib can expose him as an alien. Although most Brits would hesitate to call it a "comedy," My Hero was a Britcom about a superhero from a planet of superheroes who fell in love with an Earth woman. The series focused on their relationship and almost never went into George's work as a superhero.
What Bob wants to do just isn't interesting enough to revolve a Superman story around. Clark Kent doing gonzo journalism or finding out that nefarious groups are stockpiling kryptonite sound like they'd be good elements in a bigger story; they do not sound like they'd make a good story all on their own. And boo to Bob for wanting to make Superman "relevant" and topical by having him "do a media story". You just know that Bob wants an excuse to write a story where Superman parrots his own shitty political takes.
What Bob wants to do just isn't interesting enough to revolve a Superman story around. Clark Kent doing gonzo journalism or finding out that nefarious groups are stockpiling kryptonite sound like they'd be good elements in a bigger story; they do not sound like they'd make a good story all on their own. And boo to Bob for wanting to make Superman "relevant" and topical by having him "do a media story". You just know that Bob wants an excuse to write a story where Superman parrots his own shitty political takes.
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