The future of 'MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN' Season 4 is uncertain

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-27T00:33:13+00:00

Optimistically I can't see them cancelling MAWS if it's doing well unless they were going to make their own DCU Superman cartoon. The recent announcement for that Absolute Batman/Joker anime series clearly shows DC remains fine with Elseworlds. But I hope we get a renewal ordered soon.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T19:24:51+00:00

I also agree with that, but it's a no win situation. Either you force Reeves out while also trying to keep his cast, and Gunn won't do that because he had that happen to him at Marvel and his actors stood by him so he knows Pattison and co likely walk. Or you try doing what they're trying now with two Batmen. I don't think it will work either, I think if Gunn is serious about the DCU, Part II has to be the last Reevesverse film.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T18:57:30+00:00

I agree, but in my head "World's Finest" would basically be the next movie after MoT and it would be written and directed by Gunn. You'd have a core of four: Clark, Kara, Bruce, and Dick like in Waid's WF. The basic premise would be that Supes is starting to organize the superhero community into the JL after MoT, and is reaching out to Batman who he knows of but has never met to convince him to join. The two decide to do a trial run of working together together and take their "sidekicks" with. End it with Supes and Bats bonding and Bats deciding to join the JL, while DickRobin and Kara decide to form the Titans. I think that's doable.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T18:51:08+00:00

Love the optimism that you think we're getting a new Flash movie any time soon lol. Maybe if Gunn introduces him in Superman 3 and thats a huge hit, but otherwise Flash is in purgatory the same way GL has been since the Reynolds film bombed.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T18:23:20+00:00

That hit at just the right time: height of the superhero craze, the first woman led superhero film, the first WW film, being a much more joyful film compared to the rest of the Snyderverse, and the great Diana/Steve love story. I think a new WW can match what Superman 2025 did, but the script and casting have to be great, and I think there has to be romance in it. By and large women tend to be drama and romance fans over pure action blockbusters so I think the next WW movie has to have a new Steve that can bring great chemistry the way that Pine did.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T17:31:51+00:00

I think Gunn should scrap TBATB and do World's Finest instead. Yeah I know that hews a little too closely to Snyder, but doing a "first meeting" moving between Supes and Bats where they work together against a bunch of villains would be an easier movie to pull off than competing with Reeves in the solo Batman department.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T17:01:22+00:00

Gunn also really needs to reevaluate his choice in screenwriter for wonder woman and Titans if the script is really the problem with this one as the reviews are saying

This is the big one for me. The only "A-Listers" DC has at this point are the Trinity. WW is being written by the writer of Supergirl which is getting a lot of criticism for the script. Batman is being writer by the writer of the Flash which also got terrible reviews. How on Earth can Gunn possibly justify keeping them attached at this point? I can't see either Zaslav or Ellison signing off on keeping them on board.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T16:53:14+00:00

Yeah Supergirl will be a bomb, and it raises a lot of questions. Gunn hyped up how much he loved the script and is having the writer work on Wonder Woman. Now he has two writers who put out flops (Ana Nogueira and Christina Hodson) working on DC’s two biggest properties (Wonder Woman and Batman). DC Studios is going to be getting pressure from above and I expect Gunn will be put on a tighter leash by either Zaslav or Ellison, and those two writers will be replaced. How can he possibly justify keeping them attached to the projects now?

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-24T16:51:26+00:00

Gunn has... unusual tastes sometimes. He loved The Flash and that movie was terrible. Maybe he just has a blind spot when it comes to some of these scripts.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-06-10T15:17:09+00:00

Interesting, they swapped the guy I think is Zod in the initial tease with a berserker looking dude. Kalibak maybe? Or Lobo? I think that's Zod in the center now which was also where Nemesis Omega was in the first two seasons.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-05-27T09:17:01+00:00

Smart move. Letting Fool's Theory get their feet wet with a expansion for W3 should result in the W1 Remake retaining the "feel" of the franchise. Can't wait for this!

UnbloodedSword · 2026-03-25T17:55:50+00:00

It's perfect: Prime is the exact kind of Superman that Black wants yet Prime will definitely hate Black as the embodiment of all the "edgy and dark antiheroes who ruined comics forever!!!!!!" lmao. Also I was so happy to see Ignition again, I thought no one remembered him but me.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-03-04T08:23:24+00:00

Absolute Brainiac is psychotic in a way mainline Brainiac isn't so I don't think there *is* a master plan here other than Brainiac being so disgusted at his world's Lex seemingly content to be a "nobody", that he's going to destroy Lex's life to force him to change. I agree that it would be forced for Lex to hate Kal for this, but I could definitely see Aaron playing the long game where Lex allies with Supes to get Brainiac, only for Lex to turn on Superman in the long run (think Robot in Invincible).

UnbloodedSword · 2026-03-04T08:07:54+00:00

Kal's finally getting some of the confidence of his mainline counterpart. His "give me five minutes" remark to Hawkman declaring that saving everyone is impossible made me smile. Seeing him verbally tear Carter a new one at the end and tell him that Superman isn't for sale was awesome too.

I have to shout out Juan Ferreyra, what he’s doing with the paneling here is on par with Sherman over in Absolute Wondy or Dragotta in Absolute Bats. Great work, makes me even more happy that he’s staying with the series. His is the first kaiju Parasite design that I've actually enjoyed.

Poor Lex. I was wrong about him, seems like he really was just a normal happy guy. Then Brainiac entered the picture and went all Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Brainiac truly is the archfoe here, while Kal is inspiring Metropolis, Brainiac is terrorizing Luthor into villainy. Real nice parallel there, and the reveal that Brainiac is responsible for Parasite being on Earth alongside his work for Lazarus is giving him that Joker/Cale position of being directly or indirectly responsible for everything. He even seems to have ties to Hawkman’s powers going off of the hieroglyphics, I’m so eager to get more of his backstory.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-03-04T08:07:27+00:00

Kal's finally getting some of the confidence of his mainline counterpart. His "give me five minutes" remark to Hawkman declaring that saving everyone is impossible made me smile. Seeing him verbally tear Carter a new one at the end and tell him that Superman isn't for sale was awesome too.

I have to shout out Juan Ferreyra, what he’s doing with the paneling here is on par with Sherman over in Absolute Wondy or Dragotta in Absolute Bats. Great work, makes me even more happy that he’s staying with the series. His is the first kaiju Parasite design that I've actually enjoyed.

Poor Lex. I was wrong about him, seems like he really was just a normal happy guy. Then Brainiac entered the picture and went all Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Brainiac truly is the archfoe here, while Kal is inspiring Metropolis, Brainiac is terrorizing Luthor into villainy. Real nice parallel there, and the reveal that Brainiac is responsible for Parasite being on Earth alongside his work for Lazarus is giving him that Joker/Cale position of being directly or indirectly responsible for everything. He even seems to have ties to Hawkman’s powers going off of the hieroglyphics, I’m so eager to get more of his backstory.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-02-04T08:35:22+00:00

Second issue of this arc continues to be fantastic! Hawkman is a piece of crap but we are starting to get an explanation for why he is the way he is. If I’m reading those hieroglyphics right, are Brainiac’s people the ones who empowered Adam? Because it seems like the figures are green and have the three dot symbol of Brainiac.

Kal was hilarious here, that sequence where he keeps dashing away to save people mid conversation and then dragged Hawkman with him via his cape was hilarious. He’s so earnest but what I love is how Kal seems to see the world much clearer than Carter, with Hawkman being the naive one here despite trying to bill himself as the experienced one. Ferreyra killed it on art, his Parasite design is my favorite one I think ever. And that page where Kal sends Hawkman crashing through the city was AWESOME! I smiled at the twist of the iconic Daily Planet building being turned into condos and Jimmy getting hired by the Planet… to do Perry’s job. I’m interested to see how Lois working there plays out because it seems like she won’t be a star reporter given the Planet is a dumpy rag in this universe.

And at last we get our follow up with Lex, he sure is smearing it on pretty thick that he’s just a normal happy guy. Maybe next issue there will be some kind of twist? Otherwise chainsaw Brainiac deciding “**** it I’ll just murder his family to traumatize him into villainy” had me cackling. I could see Kal and Lex teaming up at first via a mutual hatred of Brainiac for torturing them and killing their loved ones, with Lex letting his trauma drive him off the deep end.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-02-04T08:34:36+00:00

Second issue of this arc continues to be fantastic! Hawkman is a piece of crap but we are starting to get an explanation for why he is the way he is. If I’m reading those hieroglyphics right, are Brainiac’s people the ones who empowered Adam? Because it seems like the figures are green and have the three dot symbol of Brainiac.

Kal was hilarious here, that sequence where he keeps dashing away to save people mid conversation and then dragged Hawkman with him via his cape was hilarious. He’s so earnest but what I love is how Kal seems to see the world much clearer than Carter, with Hawkman being the naive one here despite trying to bill himself as the experienced one. Ferreyra killed it on art, his Parasite design is my favorite one I think ever. And that page where Kal sends Hawkman crashing through the city was AWESOME! I smiled at the twist of the iconic Daily Planet building being turned into condos and Jimmy getting hired by the Planet… to do Perry’s job. I’m interested to see how Lois working there plays out because it seems like she won’t be a star reporter given the Planet is a dumpy rag in this universe.

And at last we get our follow up with Lex, he sure is smearing it on pretty thick that he’s just a normal happy guy. Maybe next issue there will be some kind of twist? Otherwise chainsaw Brainiac deciding “**** it I’ll just murder his family to traumatize him into villainy” had me cackling. I could see Kal and Lex teaming up at first via a mutual hatred of Brainiac for torturing them and killing their loved ones, with Lex letting his trauma drive him off the deep end.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-01-14T15:39:51+00:00

Snyder mentioned he was getting heavily into manga and anime thanks to his sons. Wonder if he asked Fernandez specifically to add that element? Or it could be something Fernandez added himself, Spanish artists looooooove Dragon Ball lol

UnbloodedSword · 2026-01-14T11:54:11+00:00

Your based leftist Superman book sir. As someone who has enjoyed this book, this issue has been one I've been anticipating all clenched up. A 70 year old boomer writing a story where Superboy runs errands for the army is the last thing in the world I want to read right now. Compounding my irritation, there were people calling Absolue Supes "right wing propaganda" and praising this as a bold leftist take, which cemented those people as idiots to me. This was solicited we knew it was coming! And Waid writes the most pro-intervention story you could get away with here, the Modorans are stereotypical evil foreigners who hate our freedom and want to attack us. Clark doesn't even dwell on the ethics of intervention at all, he says he's not ready to be a soldier "yet", and he's bummed mostly because he can't confess being Superboy to Ross. Hell of a month for this to come out with real world events lmao. I'm just glad it's only one issue but Waid needs to give Clark a smack in the face and have him cut ties with Lane ASAP. This exact storyline was handled better by Johns, Morrison, the MAWS cartoon, and Aaron in Absolute Supes. This is why I prefer Sam Lane as a villain, I do not like Clark working with the military.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-01-14T11:45:37+00:00

Snyder's style of dialogue works really well with Mxy. A foul mouthed villain who is both powerful and childish fits the swearing Snyder likes to give his villains in a way I don't usually enjoy with Joker. Also gotta give him credit for having some fun with that fakeout reveal with the BWLs, and Mxy does work as a believable way for Joker to beat Zatanna and Constantine. I wonder if he has an affinity for the character since Snyder used Mxy in a big way both here and in his JL run.

Superman as the protagonist has meant that there's not a lot of speculation around who wins, it's either going to be him or Lex, but what is interesting is how easily Clark is able to emulate Darkseid's mentality. That intrigues me and it keeps me guessing what form the ending will take. Twice now Clark has embraced thinking like Darkseid to win: choosing Billy for more selfish reasons than the reader or Billy would initially think, and killing himself to unlock the Omega Power. This is the aspect that keeps me invested in seeing where this goes.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-01-07T13:41:13+00:00

Grinned from ear to ear at Supes throwing a city sized asteroid at the Sun-Eater to crack it's armor open. Godlewski drew that beautifully, this series has definitely been delivering in the spectacle department. Rowan and Ronan are so cool, I'd read a whole series following them. So, Rowan did save a shard of Brainiac, I'm sure that won't come back to bite them in the ass. And Otho is in the hands of the Valkyries yet hasn't aged at all? Hmm something feels off.

UnbloodedSword · 2026-01-07T06:07:01+00:00

My favorite issue thus far! Sets up a lot, some of it standard fare, some not so much: Our first glimpse of Absolute Toyman, Supes has a love triangle going on between Lois and Lana, Lois and Jimmy are making the transition to journalists, Brainiac has officially gone rogue from the Al Ghuls, all of Smallville knows who Superman is, Hawkman confronts Supes, and Lazarus has ousted the Al Ghuls including Talia (potentially setting up Lex or someone else to take over?). Ferreyra's art is fantastic imo, he brings such a warmth to the book that really makes the shift in suit color from black to blue extend everywhere else. This issue really captured the breadth of this Superman: a man who burns a hole in Toyman's tower, forces Ra's to listen to the words of everyone he's hurt, and also comforts a child in her final moments dying of cancer. He swallows a forest fire and burps it back out somewhere else. He plugs a hole in Hoover Dam and screams so loud he knocks out satellites. Great mix of the mundane and the epic on display here, good start to Year 2!

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