They keep saying that they are staying true to the original series. A bizarre host of creatures and villains stand in their way, including the evil Mumm-Ra, Third Earth’s wicked ruler who will let nothing, including the ThunderCats, stop his tyrannical reign over the planet." Lion-O, the newly appointed Lord of the ThunderCats, attempts to lead the team as they make this planet their new home. "Staying true to the premise of the original series, Lion-O and the ThunderCats - Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, Wilykat, and Wilykit - barely escape the sudden destruction of their home world, Thundera, only to crash land on the mysterious and exotic planet of Third Earth. I'm sure it will find an audience with the kids, but as a fan, I'm not impressed. Here’s the official logline for the series: Every step we take towards comedy, we take two more towards really cool action scenes and explosions and lasers and actions effects."Īs you can see, the animation style is very bubbly and cartoony which ads to the silly comedic direction that they are taking it. So with the new show, we’re not walking away from the action in any bit. It’s very much something that we want to lean on. But at the same time, it wouldn’t be ThunderCats if it didn’t have super cool action elements because that’s what people came back to.
"I think the world that they built lends itself really well to comedy because of how silly and crazy and outlandish those ideas are and some of those settings are. ThunderCats was a badass show, and although it's different, I'm not seeing anything really badass about this.ĮW released the promo art above and a sneak peek video below that features producer Victor Courtright, who explains that ThunderCats Roar plans on staying true to the original’s premise and will feature tons of action, but that it will also lean into the comedy of the world:
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I am a huge fan of the original ThunderCats series but what they are doing here definitely isn't what I want in a ThunderCats series. Animation is developing a new ThunderCats animated series for Cartoon Network called ThunderCats Roar, and it's definitely not was I was expecting. If you're an '80s kid picking up this series, this is what you're putting your money down to see.Warner Bros. After WilyKat is kidnapped by a winged Ma-Mutt (Mumm-Ra's adorable pet bulldog seriously.) Lion-O confronts Mumm-Ra inside his pyramid, providing McGuinness his first opportunity to render the mummy's transformation into his true form. The story finally breaks the series' pattern, and even hints that more's been going on than readers might've assumed. McGuinness returns for ThunderCats #4, which features his strongest art on the title. RELATED: He-Man and Skeletor's Kids Almost Starred In Their Own Series There is, however, a variant Joe Madureira cover (with amazing colors from Udon), marking one of the few times he rendered any of these characters. It's cartoony, yes, but a severe departure from McGuinness' work. Sadly, this issue has Ed McGuinness taking a month off, replaced by Francisco Herrera, who's doing a riff on Humberto Ramos. The third issue swaps Hachiman out with Evil Chaser First Class Mandora, the show's cool female space cop, and pits the team against the Lunataks, a group of punk-inspired evil alien raiders. At the episode's end, their arch-enemy Mumm-Ra is soundly defeated and the team is ready to repopulate their planet with other ThunderCats who fled Thundera's destruction. The series finale had the team facing different tests to save their new home, New Thundera (their original planet was destroyed in their origin story, naturally.) Their young leader Lion-O faced trials within the mystic Book of Omens to prove himself once and for all as Lord of the ThunderCats. Unlike other action-adventure properties of the time, ThunderCats provided its cast with a true ending to their story. In fact, the mini is explicitly set after the events of the show's final episode, "The Book of Omens."
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This isn't an effort to reinvent or update the concept - this is the ThunderCats fans remember from the television series. Many of the '80s revivals had gritty or busy revamps, but McGuinness maintains a clean, smooth line. The miniseries is pure nostalgia, aimed directly at fans of the 1980s cartoon series. McGuinness' art isn't exactly the original series' style, but he resists any urge to redesign the characters.
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