Our (Continued) Adventures with Superman

With the high quality of the first season we jumped directly into the initial episodes of the second season of the anime styled My Adventures With Superman when they dropped. 

To be honest, it did waffle a bit at first, but righted itself and finished strong.

The reimagined world where everything extra-normal is based around found Kryptonian technology, but maintaining the core of the characters worked extremely well yet again.

Initially, it did fall in a couple of holes that writers often stumble into for Superman tales.

A) The Lois and Clark relationship is threatened for dopey reasons usually built around a misunderstanding.

B) The trust the people of Metropolis have in Superman is threatened for dopey reasons usually built around a misunderstanding.

Fortunately, the folks making this show know what they're doing. Following a bit of dopey-ness everything was straightened out.

I applaud them for keeping Lex Luthor in the background of Amanda Waller's machinations for another season and exploring less used villain ideas. Brainiac works perfectly as the main antagonist this season, given the Kryptonian Tech focus of the show. Continuing with the streamlining from the first season, Supergirl's survival of the end of Krypton being tied to that foe was done well. Giving Kara and Clark chances to alternatively rescue each other built up both characters.

Thanks to the brilliance of the DC Animated Universe, I suppose Brainiac will forever be Kryptonian now. I can accept that, but I would like the monkey back. 

I like monkeys. 

It's not an element of every iteration of the characters, but I am a fan of the Jimmy Olsen / Supergirl relationship. Again, with the show's focus on streamlining, it works well here. They also did a good job organically returning Jimmy to his financial status quo.

One interesting development was the series displaying character evolution in a way that Marvel tends be better at than DC. It showed the villains can be redeemed. That is the ultimate proof of the validity of a Superhero having a "no kill" policy as part of having hope for a better future for everyone involved and is the logical choice.

Monsieur Mallah and the Brain returned! 

HOORAY!!!

Having some of DC's most fun weird characters show up in both animation and live action warmed this old comic book geek's heart. 

Surpassing the dopey-ness, while introducing some new characters, laying the ground work for more later, and allowing the existing characters to grow, this series remembers what the core of Superman stories should be:

Hope, the belief that, in general, there is goodness in people,

and the strength of the love story between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

(Yes, fellow old farts, I know the last one primarily became cannon Post-Crisis, but the Earth-2 versions got married for the characters' 40th Anniversary in 1978 AND it adds far too much on the positive side for both of them to leave it off the list.)

Hey, there's a new Batman show too!