His drive to save the world? That’s perhaps his most natural instinct. His clumsiness is only amplified now that he has to try and impress a cute girl, which gives him a fun dichotomy to play with. This take on Clark can be fairly buffoonish - he breaks alarm clocks and tears door handles off, the masterpiece of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster reimagined in pure himbo style. Superman dealing with his newfound emotions regarding Lois humanizes him a great deal. In the DC Animated Universe, which has loomed over every other attempt at superhero animation made since, Lois was befuddled by Clark’s infallible amiability and fascinated by Superman, the “ Nietzschean fantasy ideal all wrapped up in a red cape.” Inevitably, she grows to love both sides, but My Adventures With Superman opts to skip past the will-they-won’t-they and makes it clear from the beginning: These two kids have a crush on one another. In the 1978 film, Lois was curious about Clark but immediately smitten with Superman. Lois Lane’s budding relationship with Clark Kent/Superman has taken a variety of forms over the years. Their connection is one of the most energetic aspects of the show, and it’s where the vibrant take on the Superman character begins. On the way to his first day of work, he runs into Lois Lane, a stroke of destiny and also a meet-cute that will inform their entire relationship. In this essay, I will…) He’s getting used to life in Metropolis and also life as a guy who wants to help people while wearing a primary-colored costume. (The series sees them still living in the same room in their 20s, a reflection of the dismal pay inherent even in fictional media industries. The series takes place in the early years of Clark Kent - he’s a new intern at the Daily Planet with his pal Jimmy Olsen. Creating a Superman that is an actual great character is a bit tougher. Creating a Superman is easy the blueprint has been laid out for almost 90 years. And it’s something that the creators behind My Adventures With Superman, the new cartoon on Adult Swim and streaming on Max, seem to know as well. Why wouldn’t we like him? He’s… nice.īut just “being a good guy” does not make for an interesting character, something that even Reeve knew as he imbued the Man of Steel with a cheeky sense of charm. Even when recalling the most respected on-screen take on the character (that of Christopher Reeve in the original 1978 Richard Donner film), we typically focus on Superman just being kind of a good guy as his most alluring attribute. With such a foundation, it becomes easy to take his character for granted. From there, he moved to Metropolis to be a reporter and use his extraordinary powers for the good of humankind. He is the last son of the doomed planet of Krypton and was raised by a pair of hardworking farmers in Smallville. As comic book mythology, Superman is pretty much chiseled in stone.
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