After freelancing for various San Diego newspapers, he broke into television, writing scripts for 1980s animated series like “He-Man” and “The Real Ghostbusters.” He graduated to prime-time writing jobs on the rebooted “Twilight Zone” and “Murder, She Wrote,” then created the sci-fi series “Babylon 5.” Straczynski then shifted to comics, writing the monthly adventures of Spider-Man for six years in the early aughts and “Superman: Earth One,” a trio of graphic novels reexamining the Ur-superhero from a more contemporary perspective. Straczynski revisits his eclectic resume in breezy, conversational prose. Not until adulthood would he become the beneficiary of mentorship from heavy hitters Norman Corwin and Harlan Ellison, though he'd gotten hooked on Ellison's mind-bending fiction as a kid. If this "What Would Kal-El Do?" philosophy occasionally makes our narrator come off as self-righteous, let us just be glad that he chose to emulate a virtuous (if imaginary) outsider instead of the violent and cruel adults who populated his most impressionable years.
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