Grownup Swim’s My Adventures with Superman was a pleasing shock when dropped in final yr, and certainly one of DC’s greatest animated outings in a while. Audiences actually appeared to get on board with the romcom antics of Superman and Lois Lane, and DC’s profiting from that momentum by giving it its personal comedian miniseries.
Revealed earlier within the week, the equally titled comedian can be set after the finale of season one and the premiere of the eventual second season. Written by present co-creator Josie Campbell and drawn by Pablo Moreno Collar (Rogues), the comedian sees Clark, Lois, and Jimmy in Metropolis in the course of the holidays investigating a sewer creature capable of take up no matter it touches. Per Campbell, the story was one thing initially deliberate for season one, however needed to be lower for time. Nonetheless, Campbell—who beforehand wrote The New Shazam for DC, together with a number of Surprise Lady points and tie-ins to occasions like Knight Terrors and Lazarus Planet—mentioned the comedian would have the identical qualities of the present.
“Being the producer of My Adventures with Superman and bringing Clark Kent to TV screens world wide has been nothing however a dream come true for me,” she wrote. “So I’m completely thrilled that Pablo and I get to carry followers even extra adventures with Superman, this time in comedian e book type! Prepare for love, comedy, super-powers, Jimmy Olsen speaking rather a lot about how he’s super-rich now, and all of the goodness of the present bundled into this action-packed miniseries.”
“I used to be utterly in love with Adventures the minute I noticed the announcement of the collection,” added Collar, “and I jumped on the probability to work with Josie on the comedian. Superman has all the time been the reference and the image of all that’s good in us, and being a part of one thing like this can be a dream come true, and the entire staff will give it our greatest.”
My Adventures with Superman (the comedian) debuts with its first subject on June 4. As for season two of the present? No ETA at time of writing, however its first season remains to be over on Max.
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