Jake Wyatt Connects Hbo Max Superman to James Gunn's Reboot
Jake Wyatt says hbo max's My Adventures with Superman rewrote Krypton's story in a way that echoes James Gunn's Superman reboot. The co-showrunner made the case ahead of the show's season 3 premiere, where the series keeps its own continuity outside the DCU while borrowing the same kind of mythmaking reset.
Krypton, not just origin
"I loved the different way that [Gunn] subverted the Superman mythos," Wyatt said, pointing to how both projects treat Superman's past as part of the character rather than a fixed origin lock. In his version, Clark Kent grew up believing one thing about where he came from and learned another, which keeps the story focused on identity instead of nostalgia.
"I think I'm here to do this one thing. I've actually been sent to subjugate these people. I now have to reconstruct my identity with my real parents and my real friends and my mean girlfriend and figure out who I am all over again." Wyatt used that line to describe the series' approach to Kal-El, who arrived on Earth as part of a Kryptonian invasion known as Zero Day.
Season 2 and Kara Zor-El
By season 2, Clark had already learned more about the Kryptonian Empire after meeting Kara Zor-El, who had been helping Brainiac annihilate civilizations that did not bow to Kryptonian rule. Clark then persuaded her to help him defeat Brainiac and join him in protecting Earth, turning the show's Kryptonian backstory into a live conflict rather than a history lesson.
"We like giving them a backstory at odds with their choices because it's their choices that matter," Wyatt said. That idea puts the series at a slight angle from James Gunn's Superman, which skipped the origin story and started after the hero had already established himself as Earth's most powerful superhero.
June 13 on Adult Swim
My Adventures with Superman premiered in 2023, and season 3 was set to begin at midnight June 13 on Adult Swim. New episodes air weekly on Saturday through Aug. 15, giving the show a finite rollout that keeps the focus on Clark's choices rather than a long runway of setup.
Brendan Clogher put it bluntly: "When the world is at its worst, your heroes are going to be at their best." That is the lane this series is choosing again — a Superman story that treats Krypton as a moral problem, not just a birthplace, and uses the reboot era to make that choice feel current.
