Superman & Lois writer Adam Mallinger, perhaps best known to his audience as “The Bitter Script Reader” back in the day, has launched a new blog titled Super Fan XL where much of the content will be a look back at his favorite era of Superman comics — the era begun after Crisis on Infinite Earths where writer/artist John Byrne first started the legend over again. Byrne’s run, of course, led to some of the best work on the Superman titled under editor Mike Carlin; such talents as Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Roger Stern, Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Louise Simonson and more were delivering great comics week to week.
Recently, however, Adam took a slight detour and talked about his own personal experience as a writer on Superman & Lois. In this recent post, he talked about some of the writing processes that led to the episode that we ended up seeing…. and at the same time, revealed what didn’t make the cut. This was his first episode written for television, and what a way to start! The writing process for “O Mother, Where Art Thou?” was a personal one for Mallinger, and his story is a fantastic look “behind the curtain.”
Instead of regurgitating what was said here, it’s best that you go on over and read it for yourself. And don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter to keep up with Adam’s latest posts!