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RAT QUEENS IS GETTING AN ANIMATED SERIES
Guys!!! if you’ve been keeping up with our weekly comic review video series, you know that Rat Queens is one of the greatest comic books on shelves right now. Check out my review of issue #1, then get the trade, then come back to this post and be really excited.
Via Variety:
After working on such films as the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, Weta Workshop’s Pukeko Pictures is pairing up with Heavy Metal to adapt Image Comics’ “Rat Queens” into an animated TV series.
The dark comedy, described as a sass-and-sorcery series, revolves around beer-guzzling maidens — Hannah the Rockabilly elven mage, Violet the hipster dwarven fighter, Dee the atheist human cleric and Betty the hippy smidgen thief — who are hired to kill monsters and other beasts.
Sounds like my ideal D&D campaign.
Pukeko and Heavy Metal, which acquired the rights to “Rat Queens,” plan on developing the books” into a 30 minute show before pitching it to TV networks.
Pukeko’s Martin Baynton and Adam Fratto will serve as executive producers on the project, with Heavy Metal’s Jeff Krelitz. HM’s David Boxenbaum and Rob Prior serve as co-executive producers.
Okay, this part’s kind of scary because there’s always the chance that it doesn’t get picked up. Who would even air something like this? Adult Swim? Spike? FX? Comedy Central? They’d probably find a better audience if they just went the Bravest Warriors route and put out short episodes on YouTube.
Regardless of what happens, it’s exciting just knowing that at only six issues into the series, people are realizing its potential and have enough faith in it to put it on television.
Any other current creator-owned series you think would make for a good TV show?
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Thanks to Twitter user Alfes2010 who has posted new images of the Takara-Tomy Transformers Movie Advanced Dino figure. Get a look at the remake of the ROTF Sideways mold out of the package, and a couple from the Tokyo Toy Show, in his robot and vehicle modes. Read on to see the Movie Advanced AD-16 Dino figure that will be out June 21, 2014 in Japan.
UPDATE: Just out is a new exclusive trailer from Clever Movies. This one breaks out of the cycle of morphing trailers and gives us a good look at Lockdown's robot mode that is asked "who sent you here," presumably by Optimus Prime. There seems to be confusion, as its does sound like Frank Welker saying, "Who sent you here?" He is playing the voice of Galvatron in the movie. We will know soon enough.
And another new Transformers 4 Age of Extinction TV Spot hits the interwebs! This is the Dinobot delight many have been waiting for. it is only 15 seconds long, but its cracking and rumbling with fire-breathing, stomping DinoBOTs that Transform!
This week Retro Robot Radio and TFormers.com bring you the sequal to last week's epic story, called When Continents Collide! This 1985 story by John Braden features the same cast as Satellite of Doom, but this time Megatron's plan is to syphon the world's oil reservoirs, which causes massive earthquakes and volcanos, and nearly starts WWIII! Art by Pablo Marcos and Judith Marcos
