Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang joins Gita and Alex for an interview, covering Superman’s place as a sci-fi immigrant story, how to write through a historical stereotype instead of around it, the thematic differences between Superman and Batman, and his pick for the actual smartest man in the DC universe.
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