Ranking Every DC Animated TV Series From Worst To Best
16. Superman (1988)
This show may - like many of its contemporaries - pale in comparison to some of DC's more modern animated series, but it's actually quite a special one. Marv Wolfman, one of the most influential writers in DC's history, was a major creative influence, and the intro even featured the rousing inflections of John Williams' seminal orchestral score for the Richard Donner films.
It was very much an action-oriented series, but one that no less provided plenty of brilliant visuals to supplement its staler moments. At one season long it's one of the shortest-lived shows that DC have produced, but one that's also easy to appreciate on a somewhat basic level.
Don't know what's going on with that ape though, it must be said.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.