![]() My Adventures With Superman premieres on Adult Swim July 6 and starts streaming on Max July 7. So seeing the Superman mythology framed in that context, heck yeah, count me in, because it looks like Lois Lane and Clark Kent are going to have one hell of a summer working the city room at The Daily Planet. (And to get old bastards like me to wax poetic about it, too.) I was a college newspaper intern, oh man, 30 years ago, and even those days were the adventure of a lifetime, at least in my memory. It’s the college intern angle that seems particularly novel, though, at least as a way to help a younger generation relate to a very old story and character archetypes. Ace lens Jimmy Olsen and grumpy editor-in-chief Perry White are also here to complete the picture. My Adventures With Superman looks like an updated take on the classic, platonic Lois-and-Clark mystery, with Supes (Jack Quaid) as a himbo ringer playing straight man to Lois (Alice Lee), the steely-eyed investigative reporter who is still missing that one last source to nail Superman’s actual origins for the 1A exclusive. So here we have a new animated series from Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and Max. Superman’s best narrative conflict has always been internal - Why is he even here? Why is someone this powerful bothering with our pitiful troubles? - and the secret identity, manifested as a newspaper reporter, whose job requirements have always been public service and altruism, has resonated across generations of readers and fans since 1938. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.My Adventures With Superman looks like my kind of fun, entirely in faith with the ideals of America’s original superhero. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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