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The Man Of Steel returns in My Adventures With Superman

- JEFF SPRY

BILLED AS A FRESH coming-of-age tale, new animated series My Adventures With Superman hopes to leap competing superhero shows in a single bound with the internship trio of nerdy Clark Kent (Jack Quaid), an ambitious Lois Lane (Alice Lee) and the camera-toting Jimmy Olsen (Ishmel Sahid) teaming up to forge an investigative reporting squad at the Daily Planet.

"The core thing that's different all ripples out from Clark," says showrunner Jake Wyatt regarding how this series compares to previous Superman fare. "There's the famous Kill Bill monologue about how Clark Kent is the mask and Superman's the real guy. We started with the inversion of that. He's Clark. He was raised by Ma and Pa. It's the name he's answered to his whole life."

This version of Clark also has less information about who he is than others: there's no Marlon Brando's Jor-El here, popping out of a crystal to deliver the suit and his name and tell him his Kryptonian origins.

"He's slower to turn into Superman, so the centre of the show is the relationship between Clark, Jimmy and Lois. Jimmy is as if Fox Mulder was on TikTok," Wyatt adds. "He loves the paranormal and wants to believe. Clark feels safe with him, knowing that if Jimmy ever found out about his weirdness he'd think it's great. They encounter Lois Lane who's looking for the story that's going to make her career, and she finds a flying guy.