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Continue reading →: SUPERMAN RETURNS turns 20 today!Twenty years ago this morning, I was at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater for the first screening of the film I maintain is the best DC Comics film post-1981 that isn’t directed by Christopher Nolan: SUPERMAN RETURNS. It’s a film whose reputation has waxed and waned over the years, but I’ve…
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Continue reading →: It’s okay for Krypton to suck
When John Byrne rebooted Superman, one of the criticisms that stuck around for a while was how he turned Krypton into sort of a techno-dystopia. Readers who grew up on the “Buck Rogers” Krypton of the Silver Age disliked this presentation of Krypton as an emotionally sterile planet, where its…
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Continue reading →: The Man of Steel #1 – On this date 40 years agoThe Man of Steel #1Released June 19, 1986 John Byrne – Writer & PencillerDick Giordano – InkerTom Ziuko – ColoristJohn Costanza – LettererAndy Helfer – Editor This issue was my introduction to Post-Crisis Superman. My Aunt Betty gave me all six issues in the miniseries at once, so it must…
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Continue reading →: About the release dates I’m using
This is a little pedantic, but as I’m aware there’s conflicting data about release dates for many of these comics, I just want to explain my sourcing. I’m mostly using the release dates on League of Comic Geeks as my point of reference. They’re quite comprehensive and when I’ve checked…
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Continue reading →: How to Read the Post-Crisis / Triangle Era of SupermanIf you’re trying to read all these wonderful comics I’m going to explore and you want options beyond “Track down a decade and a half of back issues,” this is the guide for you. First, you can find almost all of these comics on DC INFINITE. But if you actually…
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Continue reading →: What Came Before the Byrne RebootI have a bit of a quandary when it comes to presenting the backstory of the Post-Crisis Superman. If you’re a real fan of DC Comics in this era, then you already know everything I’m going to lay out and have probably read dozens of such summaries over the years.…
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Continue reading →: The 5th Anniversary of the SUPERMAN & LOIS episode “O Mother, Where Art Thou?” – My first episode of televisionFive years ago today was the airdate of my first episode of television – the first season SUPERMAN & LOIS episode “O Mother, Where Art Thou?” What follows is a blog post I originally ran the next day on my older site. “How would you like to write episode 10?”…
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Continue reading →: My history with SupermanWelcome to Super Fan XL – 40 Years of Post-Crisis Superman! As the title indicates, this site is a tribute to the era of Superman comics that began with John Byrne’s reboot of the character in the 1986 miniseries THE MAN OF STEEL. I’ll talk in a future post about…
Hello,
I’m Adam Mallinger
I’m a lifelong Superman fan who got to live his dream in 2020 when I was hired on the CW show SUPERMAN & LOIS as Writers’ Assistant. In my second season there, I was promoted to Staff Writer and I remained on staff through seasons 2 and 3. During my time there I wrote one episode in each of the four seasons and co-wrote the SUPERMAN & LOIS comic.
I also used to blog and tweet under the name The Bitter Script Reader. I also wrote the book MICHAEL F-ING BAY: THE UNHERALDED GENIUS IN MICHAEL BAY’S FILMS under that name.
I started this blog as a tribute to my favorite era of Superman, the Post-Crisis incarnation also often referred to as “The Triangle Era.”
Email me at ZuulTheReader@gmail.com