Forged your thoughts again to mid-2021, and also you keep in mind the announcement of a brand new DC Comics present referred to as My Buddy Superman. With how quiet it’s been since that preliminary reveal, you wouldn’t be unsuitable in considering that it acquired quietly canceled, particularly in mild of Warner Bros. Discovery’s current scuttling (or reshuffling) of animated sequence, DC or in any other case, within the final a number of months. And it doesn’t assist that there’s been just one picture of the present to go off of, as seen above.
However the present undoubtedly nonetheless exists. Earlier within the week alongside the grand reveal of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Everlasting (set to premiere on Might 4), Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed My Buddy Superman would air on Grownup Swim after Unicorn completes its run through the spring and presumably summer time. After hitting Cartoon Community’s extra adult-focused airing block, episodes will encore throughout Saturday nights over on the Toonami sub-block. It’ll additionally hit HBO Max, however at time of writing, it’s not clear what launch schedule (or methodology) the present will run on for the streaming service.
The elevator pitch for My Buddy Superman is that focuses on Man of Metal’s early days as a vigilante who additionally moonlights as a reporter for the Day by day Planet. With Superman voiced by Jack Quaid (Star Trek: Decrease Decks), the sequence hones in on the interpersonal relationships between him, Lois Lane (Alice Lee), and Jimmy Olsen (voice actor TBA). “All of the whereas,” learn the preliminary announcement, “Clark and Lois are falling in love, sharing adventures, taking down unhealthy guys, stumbling over secrets and techniques, and discovering what it means to be Superman and Lois Lane.”
Up to now, DC reveals like Beware the Batman and Harley Quinn have aired on Grownup Swim, however solely after initially airing some other place. Whereas it doubtless hasn’t resulted in a change to the present’s content material/target market, that My Buddy Superman is hitting Grownup Swim perhaps provides it a greater probability to carve out its personal area of interest because the DC panorama continues to get extra difficult.
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