I reported back in June this year, below, that Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment was developing an animated series based on the wildly popular (and really, really good) Energon Universe comic books.
The ongoing series of comics features new creation Void Rivals and that book acted as a gateway to a bigger story featuring the Transformers and GI Joe and will likely soon feature MASK too and sees the Transformers crashing to earth and the GI Joe team and Cobra all getting involved in their ongoing galactic war. It’s really rather brilliant.
Kirkman and Skybound developing Energon Universe animated series?
And now we have confirmation that Skybound and Hasbro Entertainment are producing Energon Universe, which will be an animated series based on the comics and will be more adult-oriented than previous Transformers and GI Joe shows, leaning more towards the Invincible audience, which is also a creation of Kirkman.
The show is ‘to be taken out to buyers shortly’ as per Deadline.
The new series will be written by Lucifer’s Joe Henderson who also has a long career penning comic books, so he’s no stranger to either medium.
I’m a massive fan of the Energo Universe which started reading more out of curiousity than anything else but I was very quickly hooked on the story which, as I said introduced the superb Void Rivals comic series in the world of Transformers and GI Joe which, here, are both familiar but also very new and just adult enough to appeal to people like myself who were fans of the original shows and books back int he 80s and now want something just a touch more intense but also conformtable and familair enough that we still love it.
I can’t wait to see this show!
The Energon Universe to expand as Visionaries and M.A.S.K confirmed
Source: Deadline
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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