Review: My Adventures with Superman “More Things in Heaven and Earth; Adventures with My Girlfriend”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Clark continues his relatively normal life with Lois and Jimmy, but new signals from a crashed Kryptonian ship give him a chance to finally speak with the dying hologram of his biological father, Jor-El. He informs Clark that his home planet, Krypton, was once a conquering empire that was beaten and wiped out, aside from Clark and his cousin Kara. Later, Clark and Lois go looking for a kid’s missing father and end up finding a secret facility where Amanda Waller is holding Lois’s father in prison.

OUR TAKE

The adventures with Superman continue with the second of the already produced seasons! Not to undercut the show getting renewed, but that does seem to be the strategy we’ve seen from recent WB made cartoons. But unlike Velma and Clone High, who went from weekly releases in the first half to dumping the second out all at once, My Adventures with Superman’s second season continues to get weekly releases on both streaming AND television, which hopefully indicates to the higher ups that there’s plenty of interest in this show continuing for awhile longer. Then again, we’ve seen a big cleaning of house regarding DC Comics related shows to get ready for James Gunn’s DCU, so we’ll see where this one lands. Anyway, we’re getting another two episode premiere, which does plenty to build on everything we saw with the first season. Clark finally knows more of his alien origins, but is now on the lookout for his cousin Kara, AKA Supergirl. Amanda Waller has taken control of Task Force X from Sam Lane but is in danger of losing it to the up and coming Lex Luthor. Lois has seemingly inherited some of her father’s alien paranoia, which may put a strain on her seemingly stabilized romance with Clark. And Jimmy…well, he’s probably going to burn through his five million dollars by the end of the season.

And just like last season, this kick off to Season 2 shows how much this show really gets its material and is not afraid to take some steps outside the box, but it also seems a bit too reliant on the anime aesthetic to the point of it having some major tone clashing at times. As for the creative liberties, having Krypton actually having been an outright evil empire is certainly a choice (as was giving Clark’s mom the cliche “dead anime mom” hair). Not necessarily a bad one, though I wonder what it can add. Most I can think of would be to somewhat justify the xenophobia that Sam Lane and Waller would have against Clark, as well as possibly having Kara an arc to go from being a Kryptonian supremacist to liking Earth. And we gotta talk about the twist that surprised literally no one with the reveal that “Alex” from last season was actually, and you’re not gonna believe this, LEX LUTHOR. We’ll see where the rest of this goes in the remaining eight episodes, but we’re off to a pretty solid start.