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Indiewire says<\/a> there’s animated series based on superhero fare that’s more interesting than the live action film adaptations, but unshockingly, they sugarcoat the presentations, beginning with what the Supergirl movie was adapted from:<\/p>\n \u201cSupergirl,\u201d the second film in James Gunn\u2019s developing DCU and one of the biggest box office bombs of an otherwise strong year<\/a> for movie theaters, isn\u2019t the worse movie I watched in 2026. But it\u2019s probably the most disappointing. An adaptation of an acclaimed standalone series called \u201cWoman of Tomorrow,\u201d \u201cSupergirl\u201d has a great lead in Milly Alcock and nothing else worth remembering. Whereas the comic it is based on is stunningly bright and beautiful to look at<\/b>, \u201cSupergirl\u201d is a murky, brown-tinted eyesore. Its generic plot strands the character in a sci-fi universe that feels microscopically small, populated by third-rate archetypes the \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d movies would barely have time for. There are interesting threads to unravel regarding Kara\u2019s grief and anger, but the story she\u2019s stranded in doesn\u2019t have time to do that in any meaningful way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I just don’t understand why we keep getting lectured about why the overrated Tom King’s tale is a modern “classic”. The artwork I’ve seen is certainly overrated. And King’s stories about “trauma”<\/a> are forced and contrived. And we’re not told anything in regards to that.<\/p>\n Even more galling: as \u201cSupergirl\u201d was tarnishing the character\u2019s reputation in movie theaters, a great adaptation of the character was airing on Adult Swim. \u201cMy Adventures With Superman,\u201d an animated series reimagining the early career of the most famous superhero on the planet<\/b>. Ostensibly, Clark Kent is the main character, but Season 2 introduced Kara (voiced in the show by Kiana Madeira), and the currently airing Season 3 \u2014 which airs its season finale this Sunday \u2014 sees her take center stage. And she rules: reimagined as a former brainwashed intergalactic conquerer attempting to atone for her misdeeds<\/b>, the show\u2019s Kara is charming, funny, badass, with a meaty arc about atoning for her misdeeds and a super cute romance with Jimmy Olsen (Ishmel Sahid) that slots right in with the show\u2019s bright, optimistic tone and focus on these character\u2019s day-to-day struggles contrasted with the sci-fi operatics. If \u201cSupergirl\u201d the movie only scratched the surface of the character\u2019s potential, \u201cMy Adventures With Superman\u201d takes the time to really examine what makes her tick.<\/p>\n \u201cMy Adventures With Superman\u201d is one of three animated shows adapting popular comic book superheroes that ran over the course of this summer, along with \u201cX-Men \u201997\u201d<\/b> on Disney+, which concluded its second season earlier this week, and \u201cBatman: Caped Crusader\u201d<\/b> on Amazon Prime, which premiered its second season in late July. Pitched to a slightly older audience than usual for an animated comic book series, teenage up as opposed to for children, these shows aren\u2019t flawless. But as comic book film studios continues to struggle to adjust to a world where they are no longer the center of the entertainment landscape (give or take \u201cSpider-Man\u201d), these shows demonstrate that these characters are better suited for serialized storytelling in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Would this be the cartoon where Jimmy was changed from white to black<\/a>? And where Lois Lane’s turned into a short-cropped tomboy? In that case, I regret to say, but this puff piece amounts to little more than misleading the audience by obscuring how the production is allegedly optimistic with strings attached. It’s also worth considering that, if Kara Zor-El was changed from an innocent girl to a former conqueror, brainwashed or not, that too, unfortunately, is tasteless. It’s also symbolic of the modern era’s inability to appreciate a simpler concept of a character who could be written with flaws and mistakes, but doesn’t have to be written as that guilty of wrongdoing as Kara sounds characterized here.<\/p>\n One of the major criticisms of superhero cinema for the past decade has been its resolute sameness<\/b>: while certain MCU movies may have loose genre window-dressing, they\u2019re fundamentally tonally similar in their quippy characters and excess spectacle<\/b>. But all three of these series have strong art direction and visions for these characters that feels spiritually true to the source material but also provides something fresh and new that fans haven\u2019t seen before, and are all radically different from one another<\/b>.<\/p>\n Heavily inspired by early 2000s anime, \u201cMy Adventures With Superman\u201d is the bright, zippy, lighthearted offering. The show takes the characters and their battles seriously, but it provides a wonderfully comforting take on Superman that also heavily foregrounds the love story between Clark and Lois; it\u2019s a rom-com as much as it is a series about fighting invading aliens. It works because of how well-drawn these versions of the characters are<\/b>, and because his relationship with Lois was always what made the seemingly invulnerable Clark feel most human. If the 2025 James Gunn \u201cSuperman\u201d film sometimes strained to reinvent the character\u2019s optimism for modern audiences, \u201cMy Adventures With Superman\u201d makes that challenge look effortless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n But again, we’re not being told about the character design, and that’s being dishonest with the readership, for the sake of virtue-signaling. They may not have done to Kara’s hair what they did Lois’, but that’s still no excuse, and that Lois’ ethnicity may have also been changed only further (she looks darker complected in the cartoon) confirms the disrespect the producers actually have for Siegel and Shuster’s creations. The writer also made sure to take a biased look at the aforementioned Marvel cartoon:<\/p>\n \u201cX-Men \u201997\u201d is another successor of a \u201990s kids\u2019 cartoon, albeit a direct sequel. The 1992 \u201cX-Men\u201d animated series that aired on Fox during the decade was a foundational series for fans of the Marvel superhero team, providing definitive versions of the mutant protectors in all their messy, soapy excess. \u201c\u201997\u201d picks up where the series left off, but again ages up the content for adults who grew up with the series for a much darker tone. The animation emphasizes fidelity to the original show<\/a> and the time period\u2019s garish aesthetic in general<\/b>, for a show that, more than almost any film, truly feels like picking up and reading five random issues of a comic run from 30 years ago.<\/p>\n Not all of these series are of equal quality. \u201cMy Adventures with Superman\u201d has been the most consistent<\/b> of the three, a nice good time throughout all three seasons without ever being exceptional<\/b>. \u201cCaped Crusader\u201d Season 1 was a promising start, but Season 2 ramped up the stakes and serialized storytelling for a much improved follow-up. \u201cX-Men \u201997,\u201d meanwhile, had a near flawless<\/b> debut season, but a divisive Season 2 that struggled with unfocused storytelling and weaker stakes, albeit with a standout fourth episode that ranks among the best of the series (the show\u2019s production was likely marred by the firing of head writer Beau DeMayo during work on Season 2 for allegations of sexual harrasment)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n No surprise they’d sugarcoat X-Men 97 as well. They made Rogue otherwise sexless, drew Storm with a mohawk forcibly, and even the treatment of Morph was reprehensible<\/a>. The part about the darkness predictably goes by without objectivity, and seriously, what “fidelity” is there truly here? And why does the writer talk about being “unexceptional” when Jimmy’s ethnicity was changed, while Lois was made to look unattractive, and Supergirl gets a questionable premise shoehorned onto her? Such dishonesty indeed.<\/p>\n I’d spoken before about why brightness and optimism can’t come with strings attached, yet that’s exactly what the producers of My Adventures With Superman did, and it’s disgraceful how Indiewire’s writer doesn’t have the courage to admit it’s ludicrous, divisive, and conflicts with entertainment value. Animation can certainly be a great venue for superheroics, but not if woke changes are forced onto established creations. There was once a saying that change must be consistent with what came before, and the Hollywood phonies who turned out these items certainly aren’t proving much different from the live action moviemakers who race-swapped and sex-swapped any of the characters in specific adaptations.<\/p>\n Labels: animation<\/a>, Batman<\/a>, dc comics<\/a>, misogyny and racism<\/a>, moonbat artists<\/a>, moonbat writers<\/a>, msm propaganda<\/a>, politics<\/a>, Supergirl<\/a>, Superman<\/a>, women of dc<\/a>, X-Men<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indiewire says there’s animated series based on superhero fare that’s more interesting than the live action film adaptations, but unshockingly, they sugarcoat the presentations, beginning with what the Supergirl movie was adapted from: \u201cSupergirl,\u201d the second film in James Gunn\u2019s developing DCU and one of the biggest box office bombs of an otherwise strong year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12035,105526,109950,152054,205693,152055,109705,182,152569,110517,205694,124956],"tags":[6119,14512,2338,2411,31145,5684],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7043248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-batman","category-dc-comics","category-misogyny-and-racism","category-moonbat-artists","category-moonbat-writers","category-msm-propaganda","category-politics","category-supergirl","category-superman","category-women-of-dc","category-x-men","tag-animation","tag-arent","tag-great","tag-spot","tag-subject","tag-superheroes"],"yoast_head":"\n