#mawsm

[bruja-londra]

Guys WE GOTTA LOCK IN

Tell everyone to get into this show please 😭😭😭 and if you can, watch it live on Adult Swim and then multiple times on MAX!

[the-irreverend]

This. This scene right here. This is the most terrifying scene in the whole damn series.

Now you're probably thinking, "What's so bad about this moment where Brainiac says he loves Kara and is hesitant to hurt her?" I tell you why: because it really demonstrates just how evil he is.

It's one thing to have no understanding or capacity for love, care, or compassion. But to have those things and then willingly purge them from yourself because you see them as a weakness—now that is truly despicable.

Not only that, but because Brainiac understands how it feels to love and care for others, he is better equipped to exploit and weaponize those feelings in others, whether it be Kara, Kal-El, or anyone else he seeks to abuse, control, or destroy.

P.S. I swear this guy gives Belos a run for his money.

[caleb-crow]

My Adventures with Superman has got me in a CHOKEHOLD

[jesterraconteuse]

The fact that on Krypton, Kal-el wouldn't be a huge warrior or a golden boy noble but a scientist makes so much sense but at the same time feels like a brave choice of the show writers and I love them for that

[superectojazzmage]

My Adventures With Superman is honestly a really impressively good example of how you can make an adaptation radically different and new while still doing justice to the source material by just approaching said source from a place of love and respect. The show is unabashedly and upfrontly meant to be a very explorative and experimental take on Superman that does the classic premise in new ways, revamped for another time and medium.

So many of the characters, designs, aesthetics, and world feel so extremely unfamiliar and unlike “traditional” Superman. But it still FEELS like Superman. The core, the spirit, the SOUL is absolutely and unmistakably there. The characters are all incredibly in-character and instantly recognizable. The plotting and writing feels straight off the page of the comic.

Even with major reinventions, this is so obviously and clearly Superman. Not some hoary “deconstruction” or obnoxiously self-aware “parody”, it’s just unabashedly honest-to-God played absolutely straight Superman. Even through all the changes, it’s that same classic, undistilled, nostalgic vibe of a Superman comic with Clark as a lovable, goofy guy with powers trying to be an example to the world, fighting crazy bad guys, helping old ladies across the street, and winking to the reader after Lois and Jimmy fail to see through his disguise yet again before cringing because Perry yelled at him for calling Perry “chief” again.

Hot, overeager tomboy Lois Lane is a bit different from usual but she’s so clearly still that same gorgeous would-be star reporter that every Superman falls in love with. Jimmy has been reimagines as kooky conspiracy buff, but he’s still ultimately Superman’s Pal who gets into wacky situations by virtue of being Superman’s Pal. Perry, Lombard, Ronnie, and Cat are all very different from the comics superficially — hell, Ronnie has had his gender flipped — but they are all still instantly recognizable as the same eccentric bunch of newsfolk they were there. Livewire and the Intergang members are all totally changed but at their center, they’re the same; same powers and gimmicks, etc.. Dr. Ivo is now a douchey techbro and yet he’s still fulfilling the very same role he does in the comics as a self-centered mad scientist who creates things that spiral beyond his control. Even Parasite, the most radically altered of all to the point of no longer being sentient, is still identifiable as his core concept of a monster that feeds on the lifeforce of others and becomes more powerful as he does, while also weakening when he can’t do so.

I really, really like it. It’s a wonderfully imaginative and well-put-together take on a very old series that really brings the concept into the modern age in a way that hasn’t really been done successfully outside the comics since the DCAU back in the 90s and early 2000s. People writing Superman or just superhero fiction in general should absolutely take notes from this show.

[fukutomichi]

My Adventures with Superman

S1, Ep7 - Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal

[cnmcn]

This weeks episode got me feeling sad so I also finished this MAWS doodle page I’ve been drawing on for like a week.

[maragarita]

Another thing, the dumbbells sent for Steve are 300lbs. Lois fully saw Clark toss the equivalent of a whole refrigerator with one hand like this man never stood a chance

[hot-take-media]

[drippingbat]

🐦? ✈️?

[frill-shark]

i had an epiphany

[bruja-londra]

Promo pic Lois with an open shirt while shooting guns save me

[the-irreverend]

I don't know why, but there's something about this scene that hits me where I live.

[mahoushojoe]

i can't wait until the new superman show yassifies bruce wayne

[jesterraconteuse]

I don't think you understand the perfection of Jimmy Olsen in MAwS. The fact that he's just a little bit right about everything despite the way he presents as an internet conspiracy theorist. He knew who Clark was. Yeah the alien starfish does exist. There are terrifying creatures in the woods. The government is hiding mutants and aliens. Like he comes off as goofy but this makes him the most intelligent person in the room! Because this is DC! All his theories are right!

[anendtopursuit]

thoughts and feelings about the line "i don't have to be better (stronger) than you, i just have to stop supplying you with power" in a fight where the villain is a walking example of a corrupt rich capitalist who only cares about himself, who earlier stated that nobody could trust superman to save them because "can we really trust a stranger to help us for free? of course we can't", who tried to get reporter clark kent to stay quiet about the corruption he witnessed by bribing him with "classier ladies" than lois, who abuses and berates the assistant who runs his entire operation.

and then, when clark saves him - "you ruined me. what's your angle? what's in this for you?" "...dr ivo, look around. is it that hard to believe that some people just want to help?"

this show really isn't shying away from the whole Rich Capitalists Don't Care About You And Society Is Corrupt thing and i'm so glad to see it - this is a superman story, after all. standing up to corruption and inequality is kinda the point.