‘My Adventures With Superman’ at Comic-Con 2026 | The Midnight Boys
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Steve Allman and Jomie reflect on their experience at San Diego Comic-Con, where they hosted a panel with the full cast of *My Adventures with Superman*. The discussion centers on the show’s creative process, vocal performances, and emotional storytelling. Cast members share insights into the challenges of voice acting, including emotional authenticity and voice range, especially for characters like Jimmy, and express excitement about how their personal experiences inform their performances. The third season is highlighted for its deep character arcs, particularly Clark’s trip to Krypton and Supergirl’s development. The writers deliberately pace Jimmy and Kara’s relationship, respecting its cultural significance while exploring romantic chaos inspired by anime tropes. The team also reveals a strong creative vision for a future *Green Lantern* spin-off, tied to existing story elements from Season 2, and expresses a desire to expand the Adventureverse with other DC characters like Teen Titans. They emphasize the show’s grounding in character development and emotional authenticity, and note that the season ends with a meaningful narrative shift that sets up future seasons while satisfying the audience. The episode underscores the passion, collaboration, and creative inspiration behind the series, celebrating both its legacy and its potential for growth.
what's up ringerverse steve allman here back with some more san diego comic-con goodies for you all
we had a great time down in san diego and i actually had the privilege to work with
adult swim to do their my adventures with superman panel and moderate for them and afterwards we had
a great talk on the ringerverse with the full cast that's superman jack quaid uh katie moderna
uh car zorel the entire cast uh we had a wonderful time kind of talking about the intricacies of what
it is like to do a vocal performance for a show like this and me and jomie have been big advocates
of this show from back in the mint edition days and it's been a great great time to get to see
this show and look up how successful this third season is going to be and then after that we got
to talk to some of the showrunners and we've had a wonderful time kind of figuring out what it's
like to get a show like this made after three seasons a little bit of the politics about what
it takes to get a show renewed and some of the great ideas that they still have in the hopper
for new and exciting shows so enjoy these interviews and we look forward to seeing you
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the fact that dungeons and dragons should be d.a.
and d listen i i'm gonna rescind this point i think i'm just gonna get in too much trouble is this too
hot for you i don't want to be too political at the start this is too much of a hot take for me to like
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dragons well we just came back from your guys's panel at comic-con uh that room was huge uh i
love i love being in it but um we just saw the latest episode episode eight how are you guys
feeling about that that was kind of like that might have been one of the most consequential
episodes of the show so i'm gonna take that back and i'm gonna take that back and i'm gonna take that
back and i'm gonna take that back and i'm gonna take that back and i'm gonna take that back and
yeah yeah to you guys what was what's been like your most exciting part of this season so far
well can i just say first of all like we recorded this season so long ago oh really like but to the
point where at least i've kind of i've forgotten so much of what's happened in the show just because
we recorded it forever ago and so it's really fun actually though to watch the show now just as a
genuine fan and be like and be like oh my god that happens like it was great and and and that was my
first time watching the show and i'm like oh my god that's so cool and i'm like oh my god that's so
watching that episode was was in the hall with all you guys so i i thought it's super consequential
and super insane uh but i don't know i just i love the show and i keep being blown away by
you know i know kind of more or less how i recorded stuff but like the animation and like what you guys
are doing is unbelievable like it's so cool to just genuinely be a fan of the show while i watch
it so you mentioned before like i'm curious how often do you guys like actually get in the room
occasionally like i'll see them in passing you know as i really as when they finish or when one
of them finishes and i have to go in and record it's like oh hey how's it going oh i haven't seen
you in a while oh you moved to la you know it's like really like and we don't hear each other's
either no we hear jake yeah sometimes filling in some lines he's gonna hate that we brought this
up but it is the best watching him do like scratch track like you know temporary that's so funny line
readings for us before they can get us in yeah and it'll just be so clearly jake's voice so can
you can you guys rate jake's performance vocally
like would it would he be based off the character i love i mean i really do love his lois
i mean 10 out of 10 for effort yeah i mean he gives his whole heart even emotionally i feel
like yeah he yeah it's it's not bad at all actually well i was really taken aback because
we are the final question that we had on this panel an adorable little girl came up and she
wanted to have uh advice given to her for being a voice actor and i thought about being a voice
actor before but then i realized that it's like capital a acting
very much still and i was like that's not for me but in the vocal performances that you guys have
like what's been like the most challenging part of both this season or any season like have you
strained yourself has it really been like i can't really get a handle on something i don't know for
me for me it's really remembering how jimmy sounds because i have a naturally deep voice
and so i have to remember like oh i gotta pitch my voice up you know it's like trying to get in
that range but uh i think uh for this season the emotional part because of the will they won't they
be able to get in that range and the emotional part because of the will they won't be able to get in
that range and the emotional part because of the will they won't be able to get in that range and
the emotional part because of the will they won't be able to get in that range and the emotional part
because of the will they won't be able to get in that range and the emotional part um arc of it um
it's very it's it's interesting just tapping into that and it's like when i watch it it's like oh
this is like a love story you know it's it's it's very surreal watching like these essentially
cartoon characters be so emotional in a good way and like trying to like convey their affection for
one another so it's it's interesting seeing it all come together in totality yeah jimmy's had a
very interesting arc for yes for me to see and i've been very curious like if you've ever saw anything
on the page when you're in that booth and you're like i don't know i don't know if we're going to
be like laying in this plane with jimmy because he's been making a like a couple of wild decisions
oh no he he's taking big swings um big swings big swings but everything you know it's like he's one
of those guys where it's like okay we're just gonna throw paint at the wall and see what happens
and almost nine times out of ten it turns out to look like a picasso so uh you know really a
artistic way but uh yeah it's it's it's interesting it's very interesting i love lois's awareness of
like how jimmy may be fumbling in the moment like lois gives like such like last straw energy with
him just you're just like like what do you mean you're doing that like what do you mean you know
and i i love that like it's so real it's like a big sister exactly so real and she thinks she
knows better yeah she's been in a relationship yeah exactly so i i've loved your performances
like it's it's really like i've talked about like her unbridled enthusiasm when she's like
kind of let loose and gotten to enjoy earth and i've been curious like of the things that you've
experienced in your own life like how do you like channel that much energy because like i can hear
it in the performance like what do you get like to like work yourself up for that level of energy
that's a great question um i feel like honestly so much of it is the adrenaline of like
doing voice acting in general for me it's my first animation job what yeah
it's hers too it's mine it's yours too you guys are all so good at this how is this your first
time oh my god i'm flabbergasted well done all of you sorry thank you i so i think it's that like
every time i i get the email where they're like recording session i'm like woo i like hype myself
up so i'm like i think just the collaboration also jake and brendan and everyone else that's
there with us um we have an amazing vocal like director that we work with too and um yeah i think
working with them like they make this space so warm they really just give us a space to like try
things and we do different takes and variations and levels um but for me i'm like car is so like
wide-eyed and like has like i said earlier in the panel this like childlike joy that i feel like i
have in my natural life too so just really leaning into that and like not being afraid to show her
vulnerable side and like also i love like voice acting because you don't have to care at all what
you look like so there's also a lot of like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know
certain level of like zoning in vocally that you can do because you don't care about anything else
you can put all your energy into that so who's pulling up in sweatpants and just a coffee with
a hoodie up and like not really i'm wearing heels i'm joking imagine no it's a giant giant perk of
the job yeah it's like it's just rolling up being like hey what are we doing today all right um but
yeah but the energy spent especially i mean for all of us because like all these characters have
moments of like manic energy but like i feel like the the kryptonian
fights yeah that's a lot of screaming yeah that's a lot of that's a lot of like efforts and like
punching and getting punched and and all that that was like that really surprised that was
different than any other voiceover job i've ever done it's just the the sheer i mean i usually play
characters that are like fleeing from right a fight so this was this was very different to be
like like all that stuff is that's that's a lot but jake and brendan and everyone they make it so
yeah so nice and so fun and like they are so enthusiastic about this thing
that they're making let me just say too give them all the shows i want to see my adventures with
every everyone right uh as long as it's those guys and you know people like karen like
everyone behind the scenes because they just they care so much and they're putting their
own original spin on everything and their enthusiasm is so contagious when you're in
the booth now has has jake or anybody been like letting slip like okay well
if they like this then they're gonna really like what like the next thing we got cooking up because
we got my adventures with green lantern coming up soon and have you guys been hearing a little bit
a little bit about that?
Has there been like a,
oh, maybe you need to be coming in for something different?
Um, not me.
Anyone?
If there was anything to know,
definitely not going to tell us.
Right.
It's above our pay grade.
Okay, that's very fair.
I'm going to prod them later.
But I am, like, so unbelievably happy for them,
like, to not only be able to do this show,
but to, like, then have, like, a spinoff
and try to do what they do for a whole different character,
and it's a different. I'm not very well-versed in anime,
but Jake, in an earlier interview today,
was trying to. What was it?
It's Shoujo, as opposed to. This is the Shonen?
Oh, yes, yeah, yeah.
Tell me if that sounds vaguely correct.
Yeah, but I also did not know what that meant.
I didn't either, but I love that they do.
And I love that they are just so. Chuck in the back is absolutely, like,
holding himself in right now.
Oh, no, please.
He's like, this is my absolute. Is what I just said horrible or wrong?
No, you got it pretty correct.
Okay, cool.
Pretty correct?
Shonen is boys.
My boy action like Dragon Ball Z.
Shoujo is romance.
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
So lots of Shoujo this season.
Oh, yeah.
I would say there is some Shoujo in our Shonen.
No.
Yeah, Shonen.
Is there a quality. Sorry, I'm just asking someone off camera.
No, please.
This is going to be great for everyone watching.
And he's not mic'd either.
But I need to know, Shonen, is there, like,
a part of that which is all about, like,
leveling up or something?
Because I know that people talk about that
when it comes to Clark.
Yeah, going Super Saiyan, yes.
Yeah, that's Shonen boys manga.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Naruto, Bleach, all those.
Okay, cool.
All right.
We're learning so much.
Listen, that's what we offer here.
Well, I'll close it out by saying, like,
what's something that you think is
something that you are probably looking forward to
the most with the audience seeing
by the end of this season?
Again, I know that we can't spoil that much,
but is there a performance that you gave?
Is there a moment that you took from
this final episode that you're just like,
wow, we really did something different?
Hmm.
I don't remember that.
It was so long ago, I know, I'm sorry.
It really was all you guys.
Well, like, you get to see them earlier,
at least for most of the time.
Because I saw you guys watching the episode,
like, just backstage when we were,
was that your first time seeing it?
Yeah, that was our first time.
No, I mean, that's why we were being so loud.
We were like, oh, no way!
Yeah.
Because I was called in to, like, do this entrance,
and then all the stagehands were just like,
guys, you need to come on.
And they're like, no, we're watching.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're watching the show.
Yeah, it was our first time watching it,
that's why.
Yeah.
I do remember one episode.
Oh, sorry, you go ahead.
No, no, you go ahead.
Oh, God, okay.
I do remember recording one episode.
It's the next episode, episode nine.
I have not seen it yet,
but I remember going in for that one
and being like, this one's very cool,
and this one's very cool,
and I'm really looking forward to people seeing that one.
I can't say anything else,
but it's maybe,
I think it was my favorite episode to record this season.
Wonderful.
Yeah.
Well, I think we can wrap it there.
Thank you guys so much for coming on.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And we're looking forward to seeing the rest of the episodes.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
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Thanks, guys, for coming on.
We just came back from an amazing panel.
Thank you guys so much for doing it.
My adventures with Superman.
This show rocks.
Both Jomie and I have really been fans of it since season one.
From the jump.
Yeah.
I've been curious now that season three is kind of starting to wind down.
We've got a couple more episodes to go.
What are you most excited for people to see?
I'm excited for you all to see what happens with Supergirl,
especially to the end of the season.
I feel like if we all know what happened in episode five,
that really gives Supergirl. an opportunity to sort of be her own and grow
into a way that's like self-actualizing by the end of the season,
which I think is awesome.
If we get another season of the show, we'll totally capitalize on.
I'm excited.
We're going to dig into Krypton again.
Okay.
We're having Clark go back to the source in an attempt to help his family.
It's going to go horribly wrong.
He's going to suffer greatly.
And I'm really excited about that.
Krypton has been really fun for us to play with.
Yeah.
And it's been interesting watching the way that James Gunn's DC universe
also plays with like the mythos of Krypton and whether Jor-El is like innately good.
And because we both started with a spin on like the VHS tape that Clark gets from his parents.
Right.
That's like, my son, you are from Krypton.
You have a mission.
And the Gunn film did such a different take on that.
Yeah.
And so I'm excited to go back to Krypton and reckon.
I love that place.
And we're and we're digging in.
We're digging into some other genres that are near and dear to our heart when we go there.
Awesome.
You mentioned Supergirl.
Now, like at the end of last season, it was a little like Jimmy Supergirl.
What?
And at the beginning of this season, y'all say, actually, we're going to make people wait for that.
That's not coming.
People have been killing Jimmy online for weeks.
Poor guy's getting dragged.
He's getting dragged.
When you guys in the writers room for season three, what was the decision process to be like, hey, we're not going to give you guys Jimmy and Supergirl right off the bat.
We're going to make you guys wait for that relationship.
To come together.
Do you want to tell them you don't want it off the bat?
Oh, you're just like you're you're just straight up not ready for that heat.
Yeah, you're you're not.
But also, you know, I think Jake Jake actually had a really good pitch for that.
Like he sold it to me over some dim sum one day.
I'm going to let you speak to that right now.
So Clark and Lois, that relationship is sacred, right?
They are pop culture icons.
They're this like important romantic relationship in our media history and cultural zeitgeist.
Jimmy and Kara.
It is not sacred.
So we had to be very careful and tread very carefully with Clark and Lois.
You can only go so far with the tension in that relationship or it becomes unpleasant and not fun to watch.
Not fun to make.
Yeah.
Have you all seen Rama, Rama?
I want to have one half.
So what I like about Rama is it's like, what if the Looney Tunes all wanted to kiss each other?
Yeah, but they were too busy, like taking each other with a kiss.
And we're like, it's not it's not so much romantic comedy as it is.
Like.
It's like sexual chaos, right?
It's romantic chaos.
Romantic chaos.
Right.
So we wanted to play with that with Jimmy and Kara.
And and I also said, you have the friend who's like really good at giving advice and then really bad at taking it.
And that's James Olsen for two seasons.
He looked so wise telling Clark and Lois about their emotions and how they feel.
And he's still wise.
He can tell Kara how he feels, but he can't tell Kara how he feels.
So.
Um.
Yeah, I wanted to get him.
And like, if we give it to you right away, but we don't have a lot to write to.
So it's a TV show.
We got to space this stuff out over time.
And then some of it's some of it's vicarious.
Brendan had been dating again.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And I met my wonderful partner, Elizabeth.
Oh, yeah, I've been together for three years.
It worked out.
But the but the run up to Elizabeth was like, buddy, it's changed out there.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
who are you telling right and and we were both like we should do that to jimmy we should do that
to jimmy like writing jimmy this season was just me reliving one of the worst chapters of my life
so i just why would why stop now no no that's because that's amazing like all of those things
that writers pull upon in their own personal lives and in the pop culture references that they love
you guys are kind of stewards of this kind of sacred thing of like dc characters they've been
around for decades upon decades and there's like an instinct to kind of like treat them like little
baby birds but also you want to really play with them and make them malleable like were you ever
afraid to go too far i mean you know we still have to make something to put on tv or things
that parents could watch with their kids and our generation but yeah i feel insofar as taking
things too far that's more of a eventually we'll get there right
uh you're not worried about taking things too far with jimmy olsen so yeah so part of what we love
about him and why we were so adamant about like having him on the show from pitch uh part of our
original series pitch before we were greenlit was this comic book cover which is i believe the planet
of doomed olsen yeah and it's superman dropping jimmy off on a planet that's full of all the other
screw-up jimmy's like one's a turtle one's the porcupine guy right yeah one's one's the wolfman
he's like sorry jimmy this is what you deserve like wow you screwed up too many times so jimmy's
been this kind of like cosmic punching bag so no no we're never careful like that's what he's for
man right i read a hundred issues of that jimmy olsen comic really yeah like a lot of it and then
you can do anything to him okay um sorry if we're pulling from inspiration i will say man the uh
the jimmy flamebird call that happens every time he says it and then the running guy from season
two when he had the money i love those so i love what you guys are doing with jimmy uh but i mean
you mentioned it like you guys have so many influences yeah uh in the previous interview
we're talking about like shonen and shoujo animes and all that stuff but in episode uh four at the
end and do episode five uh there's a level of there's terminator yeah you know so oh yeah when
you guys are again when you guys are like sitting there working like what are the influences that
you guys think through when you're making this show because it's this full of anime there's
there's so many stuff i'm like i recognize that from here sailor moon there's this like what is
the what's the thought process behind like i i watched this movie i watched this show how do i
now put that into my super
movie i watched this movie i watched this show how do i now put that into my super
man uh animated tv show i mean for my part it's when you're creating a thing you really pull from
like what you know and what you love and superman is such a great palette of like oh we're doing
superhero stuff it's an anime inspired version that was part of like what we pitched um and so
of course when we're writing the thing i'm just reliving my toonami years right a little bit it
lets me go it's sort of like the best way to go back and nostalgia dive yourself is to like make
that your job a little so it's kind of like being a kid again every day at work that's why uh me and
and part of the fun is so like pop culture happens kind of in like in echoes and clusters so you can
look at the original terminator in t2 so you look at t2 particularly and you can see how cyborg
superman comes out of that right like just dead ass that's a term right you can look at how trunks
is modeled on teenage john connor they got the same hair they've got the same jacket they both
come back like they're both time travel adjacent like that's one to one and so those were were two
things that were connected to each other and i think that's one of the things that i think is
connected by a node um that we wanted to kind of like pull all back into each other um and then
remix the way we talk about it is we're not trying to cover songs we're sampling them right yeah we're
trying to find good samples we're trying to find ways to remix and make this stuff new so one of
the ways that you make a thing new is you look back at its influences yes and say okay what would
i do with that into the whole like john and time travel and the trunks thing of it all you know if
you look at like when toriyama was writing those comics and like what hollywood was doing
it's the same kind of song and dance of like oh terminator came out like jake said oh yeah and
then you get you know the the android saga soon after that which is distinct from terminator yeah
which is great but not just him you also look at sailor moon terminator comes out then you get
like so it's it's this fun like little history dance you can do with media and see like what
influences what and what it creates from that and adapting so adapting death of superman meant
adapting all of its influences and then some of the things that it echoed out from that and then
trying to bring them home and then trying to bring them home and then trying to bring them home and
and we and we said this on the the san diego panel but like bringing them home to our characters and
what will challenge them because ultimately you're still writing for your main cast so you're writing
john at clark and lois and cara right um you're writing cara at jimmy and jimmy at cara right um
and so you're trying to be true to their personalities but you're you're trying to
cause trouble yeah drama theme and conflict and they all have to be like unified and you
know john is the perfect character because he's their son he was the weapon we needed
yeah if if it was connor that's lex and clark's son different story right yeah which we haven't
done that yet so you know um yeah we like to keep that on the table yeah anyway that's that's why we
that's why we mucked around a lot well speaking of keeping things on the table like i we talked
a little bit uh beforehand and i don't want to like get too in the nitty-gritty of like the
politics of getting shows made or anything but i'm very very curious because again we don't have
any official word on season four but the things that go into pitching and influencing the powers
to make a season four happen what do you guys consider and what are the things that you want
to like kind of really expand on in a fourth season that actually get those people's attention
and hopefully get a fourth season uh that's a really good question yeah uh so the creative
the first creative pitch anyway for four got turned in with three like we we handed those
in to to gun and saffron one document okay yeah uh and the the the title for the first one that
the season three one sheet was oops all super boys
okay um i don't want to give you the title for the fourth one it's a little too much away yeah
no sport but it comes out of the character conflicts in three right and oh no no super boys
well the road to super bowl it's a little more lois and clark focused okay right like
once the season finale of this show airs and you see it it's that would be our jumping off point
um there's a very specific thing that happens in the very last scene of the season which i don't
want to spoil but like when you see it it's like
we're going from that to the next thing now but like what is what differentiates that from just
say a like a mind-numbing cliffhanger that nobody's gonna be happy about versus okay we've
tied up this story yeah and now we have something different it's about phases of life versus like
next dramatic conflict okay so we end so just to give a little taste of the beat it's not like oh
no a meteorite's coming out of earth now what do we do superman it's more like their life is moving
to this stage yeah we see what's next for our characters and we see their lives and we see their
where they're headed and then we will get from from one of our villains um we'll get an intimation
of things to come yeah we'll we'll basically learn why some of our villains did what they did right
we'll get into their motivations and what they saw and what they know that our characters don't
so every time we end a season and don't have a new one we're always trying to wrap up in a way
that leaves the door open but like you said if this is what we get we want our audience to have
a satisfying ending and then they can imagine what happens next right right um and if not we
get to imagine what happens next yes there you go
yeah and at the end of the season yeah we do we do hint at there's a reason why lex has been like
this all season yeah and if we get a season four you get to find out yeah we'll get into it and
then to answer the political side of the question so uh we work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
here in entertainment right now so you're hoping that your audience is teaching your employer that
making more of your show is a good idea right like they'll they'll get a return in an uncertain world
there's a high probability of return on that right and our audience man our audience has been so great
to us yeah we are so lucky we are so lucky uh they've really shown up for us every season
they've shown up on cable for us every season it's like a lot to ask on cable on cable in 2026
yeah yes yeah on this planet on this planet james can you listen in that's crazy uh so they've been
really great um they're turning up in bigger numbers with every episode so i don't know though
like what what makes sense for our parent company
and or prospective parent companies sure uh in a such a fast-paced dynamic environment right but
you want to make it look like a like a sure thing like there's there's this is a good investment
that has a high probability of return yeah the way i see how the media like the hollywood industry
works is you know we have our country which has laws voted on by the people but inside but inside
the walls of these of these businesses these corporations and these wbs and whatnot it's
kingdoms and we run by the game of thrones so it's sort of like
we are you know we're beholden to who our masters are and we are like knights and if we're granted
the serfdom which is superman we get to play in there and so we're sort of like at the edge of
like our tenure being the knights of it um so if they award it to us again we will be i want to say
knights i don't say knights i'd say lords that's a castle a small duchy if you will yes i'm really
excited for the crew to hear you say uh what do you say surfed them listen james gunn is the lord
of dc right now he is our lord our least lord yeah
to whom we do pledge fealty of course yes he is our man he is our lord and and honestly james gunn
has been great to us yeah he's fantastic yeah he's he's been great to work for peter saffron too
they've been great and now it is and speaking of which he's had uh like at least a very passionate
co-sign for the my adventures with green lantern series that's going to be coming out
what would what was his response to hey we're thinking about doing this like what was the
like sort of pitch to get that across the line or is it more just like sign seal deliver to
happen he greenlit it without further conversation really yeah we pitched in the show and he fronted
some money like yeah when i say that they've been great to work for i mean that they asked for a
spin-off right we we sent them a love letter to green lantern and shoujo anime and uh i expected
there to be more conversations or like a pilot process and he's like great here you go and put
us into production like put us full season order yeah right into production which i was really
grateful for and then um because we care about process we're going to have to make sure that we're
making sure that we're doing this right we were our our production people our line producer was
able to kind of like structure us a kind of internal pilot process and you know we we ran
stuff by dc studios and detective comics comics but um they were really supportive and so we we
kind of got through our own little pilot process that we built for ourselves and then we had a show
interesting so you guys get adventures for men you get adventures green lantern is there any other
adventures that you guys would like to take us on throughout the dc universe brendan what adventures
would you like to go on all of them but but like to to answer it seriously like none right now that
are upcoming outside of those two i think if if this leads to something bigger i think jake and
i are 100 game to go wherever that takes us which of course doing the trinity characters rule
that's just the desire though of course uh as well as you know like jake has
a great idea for teen titans that would be really fun that i would love to just see now
Now we would love to hear anything that could be potentially
What did that mean?
What did that mean?
What are you talking about?
We had developed a take on the Teen Titans that was, it didn't formally reprise the old
2003 show, but it was kind of like a spiritual successor with some of the older, the original
cast characters returning older and then some new characters being introduced.
Okay.
And that would have been a lot of fun.
We went with Lantern at the time that we were like looking at these options.
Yeah.
Brendan likes the Trinity.
I like the weirdos.
I'll tell you what, if we keep building out the Adventureverse, which would be really
great, that would be so cool and so fun.
And it's such a privilege to have done even what we're doing.
We want to build it out in a way that extends, flows more naturally from Clark and Jessica.
Right?
Yeah.
So, because Jessica Cruz is going to be our Green Lantern.
So, one of the reasons we went Green Lantern is in season two, we'd already had Superman
kind of like fight a simulated lantern in. Season two episode. Episode six.
Time code as well.
Sorry.
Give me a few minutes, I'll remember it.
Right.
Yeah.
In Brainiac's arena.
So, we like, we had that built in and that guy who had been designed by character artist
Paul Reinwand and Elaine Bebayan, written by M. Willis and then storyboarded by Grace
Liu.
Like, I was so into that guy.
I was like, what a weird take, like Kung Fu Shaolin take on a Green Lantern.
Yeah.
And then we just kind of kept noodling at it.
So, I would like to extend our universe out from our existing characters, keep it grounded
in the. In the characters we have and what we revealed about them.
Hey, man.
The Adventureverse is shaping up, you know what I'm saying?
We need to be. Jessica Cruz coming soon?
She's so cool.
She was in this season of Mind Versus Your Man.
We saw the little. The question she was asking Cara and I was like, you guys can't fool me.
I know what you're doing.
You're playing in the seas.
I see it.
I see it.
I can't wait.
I'm glad you're excited.
No, no.
It's been great.
And it's been great talking to you guys at the con.
Like, seriously, thank you guys so much for coming on.
This is great.
I love talking to you guys.
I love talking to you guys about how these things are made.
It's been, like, an absolute joy to get to watch the show.
And you can't wait to see more.
Thanks so much, fellas.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Steve Allman and Jomie hosted a panel at San Diego Comic-Con featuring the full cast of *My Adventures with Superman*, discussing the show’s creative process, vocal performances, and emotional depth.
The cast highlighted the challenges of voice acting—especially emotional authenticity—and shared personal experiences, such as the difficulty of matching character voices (e.g., Jimmy’s deep tone) and the excitement of rewatching episodes as a fan.
Season 3’s narrative focuses on Clark’s journey back to Krypton, Supergirl’s character growth, and the deliberate pacing of Jimmy and Kara’s relationship, which is treated with care due to its cultural significance, drawing inspiration from anime and pop culture like *Shonen* and *Shoujo* genres.
Summary:
Steve Allman and Jomie reflect on their experience at San Diego Comic-Con, where they hosted a panel with the full cast of *My Adventures with Superman*. The discussion centers on the show’s creative process, vocal performances, and emotional storytelling. Cast members share insights into the challenges of voice acting, including emotional authenticity and voice range, especially for characters like Jimmy, and express excitement about how their personal experiences inform their performances.
The third season is highlighted for its deep character arcs, particularly Clark’s trip to Krypton and Supergirl’s development. The writers deliberately pace Jimmy and Kara’s relationship, respecting its cultural significance while exploring romantic chaos inspired by anime tropes. The team also reveals a strong creative vision for a future *Green Lantern* spin-off, tied to existing story elements from Season 2, and expresses a desire to expand the Adventureverse with other DC characters like Teen Titans.
They emphasize the show’s grounding in character development and emotional authenticity, and note that the season ends with a meaningful narrative shift that sets up future seasons while satisfying the audience. The episode underscores the passion, collaboration, and creative inspiration behind the series, celebrating both its legacy and its potential for growth.
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The actors emphasize emotional depth and realism, particularly in the relationship between Clark and Lois, using authentic vocal energy and emotional arcs to convey genuine affection and vulnerability.
They intentionally delayed the romantic development to maintain the sacredness of Clark and Lois's relationship, instead exploring Jimmy and Kara's dynamic as a source of romantic and comedic chaos rooted in personal growth and awkwardness.
The show draws heavily from anime, especially Shonen and Shoujo genres, with clear references to works like *Sailor Moon* and *Terminator*, blending these inspirations into a unique, nostalgic, and dynamic storytelling style.
The Krypton arc explores Clark's family roots and delves into the mythos of Krypton, offering a deep emotional journey that challenges Clark’s identity and connects to James Gunn’s broader DC universe philosophy.
Season 4 is being pitched with a focus on character growth and life transitions, featuring a satisfying season finale that hints at future conflicts, motivations, and the evolution of key characters like Lex Luthor.
Yes, 'My Adventures with Green Lantern' is confirmed as a spin-off, inspired by the show’s existing Green Lantern reference in Season 2 and developed with strong support from James Gunn and DC Studios.
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