“My Adventures With Superman” sets season 3 premiere: Showrunner previews new “Reign of the Supermen” arc (exclusive)

Nick RomanoThu, April 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC

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'My Adventures with Superman' season 3 premiere set for JuneCredit: AdultSwimKey Points -

My Adventures With Superman season 3 sets a summer premiere date.

Showrunner Jake Wyatt confirms the new story is inspired by the Reign of the Supermen comics of the '90s with an exclusive first look at Cyborg Superman.

Season 3 will also include an appearance by Jessica Cruz, the character that will headline her own Green Lantern show. Wyatt provides an update on the spinoff.

It's been nearly two years since we got new episodes of My Adventures With Superman, the animated DC series starring Jack Quaid as the voice of Clark Kent. Part of that came down to logistics.

Animation takes a long time to produce, and the first two seasons were ordered in one batch of 20 episodes for Cartoon Network and HBO Max, showrunner Jake Wyatt explains to Entertainment Weekly. Then the Warner Bros. Discovery merger yielded "a wait-and-see period after season 1 aired," he says.

"I wanna be clear," Wyatt clarifies, "the studio was always super supportive and ready to make it. We just needed the stars and the bank accounts to align."

We'll now get to see what the team has been cooking behind the scenes later this year. The My Adventures With Superman season 3 premiere will first air during Adult Swim's Toonami anime/action block on Saturday, June 13 at midnight ET/PT with a streaming release on HBO Max the next day, EW can exclusively reveal.

Jack Quaid's Man of Steel on 'My Adventures With Superman' season 2Credit: AdultSwim

"I just wanna thank the fans for their patience on that because the fans have been really amazing," Quaid says separately, adding, "It's a really great season. I've seen some of it. It's really funny, but the stakes are also so much higher."

Wyatt, a showrunner and executive producer with Brendan Clogher, confirms the comic book inspiration the show tackles next: "We're digesting Reign of the Supermen."

To hammer that home, the official promo art reveals a first look at Cyborg Superman, a.k.a. Hank Henshaw, who was established at the end of My Adventures With Superman season 2. "We're Cyborg Superman right out the gate," Wyatt says.

Cyborg Superman first look from 'My Adventures With Superman' season 3Credit: AdultSwim

Published in 1993, Reign of the Supermen followed the Death of Superman arc. After the passing of the Man of Steel, multiple other super men pop up to claim the mantle for themselves: the Eradicator/Last Son of Krypton, Cyborg Superman, Superboy, and Steel. "It's not gonna be a retread of the comics," Wyatt prefaces of My Adventures With Superman season 3, "but we did make all the writers read the comics."

It's more about, "What would we do with that premise now?" he continues. "It's less Death [of Superman] and more about, 'What's a Superman?' The fun thing about Reign of the Supermen is that it's all these impostors who have the same power set but different values."

Quaid returns alongside costars Alice Lee (People We Meet on Vacation) as Lois Lane, Ishmel Sahid (Jury Duty) as Jimmy Olsen, and Kiana Madeira (Malcom in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair) as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl. Season 3 kicks off with these characters figuring out their lives in the aftermath of the Brainiac saga.

Clark is ready to settle down and build a future with Lois, who's worried about losing her star reporter status at The Daily Planet if they do so. Meanwhile, Kara, modeling herself after her Kryptonian cousin, is now on the hunt for an Earth mate and has her sights set on Jimmy, who's now a celebrity journalist after proving aliens exist.

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It's at this period of change and self-discovery that the other Supermen arrive.

Superman (Jack Quaid) on 'My Adventures With Superman' season 2Credit: AdultSwim

Season 2 teased Hank, the future Cyborg Superman, as a handsome astronaut who doesn't like aliens and doesn't think they belong on Earth. When last we saw him, Hank served as a fighter pilot in the finale's battle over Metropolis and his aircraft was shot down. "That's not gonna improve his view of extraterrestrials," Wyatt teases.

Superboy is another confirmed character arrival. He's directly inspired by the leather jacket-clad version of the '90s comics but is still a different spin. "Superboy can't just push Clark's buttons," Wyatt notes. "So Superboy's been adjusted to be more relevant to all of our characters, and then he is going to embody the tension between hope in the present and fear in the future.... He was the writers' and the artists' favorite character for the season, and we're going to complicate him a bit over the course of it."

Steel/John Irons, voiced by Byron Marc Newsome in past seasons, will return but will be "more lightly involved," Wyatt discloses, because he's "less of a foil to Superman." If the show gets to season 4, "We've got plans for him," the showrunner adds. For now, season 3 will "heavily feature three of the others of the alternative Supermen from Reign," Wyatt says, including the two previously mentioned.

And then there's Lex Luthor, who will be "a huge part" of the new story. He's someone who hates Superman because the hero is something he can't control.

Lois and Superman on 'My Adventures With Superman' season 2Credit: AdultSwim

"The future is coming always for all of us, no matter what. Whether you face that with fear or hope or courage, and how, it determines a lot about you," Wyatt explains. "Lex is all fear all the time. He's the character who most embodies that concept in the season, and he's driving it —the action thread, anyway."

Season 3 will also include a light cameo from Jessica Cruz, a character who will headline her own My Adventures with Green Lantern offshoot that's in development. Wyatt is actively working on that animated series with Clogher, but says they are still in pre-production and are waiting on an official pickup. "We are just about to ship our first episode to Korea for animation, so it's gonna be a minute," he notes.

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He does, however, give a little taste of what's to come: "Our take on Superman is very obviously inspired by Dragon Ball Z, among other things; there's a lot of anime influence. Lantern is inspired by a very different part of the same Toonami block. It'll be really clear once we start dropping promos what part of the Toonami block inspired our Green Lantern show. We're not subtle, people."

Season 4 of My Adventures With Superman is also "not technically renewed," Wyatt states. Though, when James Gunn and Peter Safran took the helm of DC Studios, he and Clogher pitched their take for seasons 3 and 4 simultaneously.

"Please watch the show on Adult Swim, on Toonami, and then HBO Max, and maybe we'll get a season 4," Wyatt says. So mark your calendars: Season 3. June 13. Toonami. Midnight.

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