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. “I’m just filling in the gaps, so I re-read his first appearance in Spectre and some other old stories,” says Letson, referring to modern-day Mr Terrific Michael Holt’s debut in 1997’s Spectre issue 54. “I was just trying to find the sweet spot, and I realised that issue is really about the