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Benevolent Brainiac
Ahead of his appearance in Superman, Mr Terrific: Year One tells the origin of DC’s super-genius
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
TAKING A BREAK from scripting series like Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, Al Letson wrote a proposal for a Mr Terrific TV show “because he really dug the character”. But after director James Gunn tweeted a picture of Edi Gathegi in costume as the character on the set of this summer’s Superman, he’s turned it into Mr Terrific: Year One, a six-issue miniseries that’s illustrated by Valentine De Landro and Edwin Galmon.