I love all of Craig McCracken's work - The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Wander Over Yonder. Powerpuff is a pastiche of the superhero genre, Foster's is imaginative and whimsical, and Wander was upbeat, and was Craig's earliest foray into story-driven animation. Disney cancelled Wander because they thought they already had story arcs covered with Gravity Falls.
Kid Cosmic is story driven from the get go, but isn't 100% edgy, melodramatic, and dead serious. There are many funny and lighthearted moments to counter the action/ serious ones. Like Powerpuff, it parodies the superhero genre while also powerfully deconstructing it and its archetypes, particularly the Five Man Band trope.
The whole aesthetic and animation of the show is a call back to Silver Age comics, and the show's animation is stylized to look limited. Mercury Filmworks never misses. And the show has a punk rock soundtrack to go with it.
All the main characters are excellent and have their own individual arcs and plots, even the cat Tuna Sandwich. Kid's is my favorite. He's a nerdy little kid (badumtsh) who wants to be a hero more than anything, and gets all his knowledge of heroics from comics. He also has a tragic backstory, as his parents were killed in a car crash on Route 70. This drives him to become a hero so he can save people, because he couldn't save his parents. That's just downright powerful.
I recommend the show to everyone. Everyone will love it.
Kid Cosmic is story driven from the get go, but isn't 100% edgy, melodramatic, and dead serious. There are many funny and lighthearted moments to counter the action/ serious ones. Like Powerpuff, it parodies the superhero genre while also powerfully deconstructing it and its archetypes, particularly the Five Man Band trope.
The whole aesthetic and animation of the show is a call back to Silver Age comics, and the show's animation is stylized to look limited. Mercury Filmworks never misses. And the show has a punk rock soundtrack to go with it.
All the main characters are excellent and have their own individual arcs and plots, even the cat Tuna Sandwich. Kid's is my favorite. He's a nerdy little kid (badumtsh) who wants to be a hero more than anything, and gets all his knowledge of heroics from comics. He also has a tragic backstory, as his parents were killed in a car crash on Route 70. This drives him to become a hero so he can save people, because he couldn't save his parents. That's just downright powerful.
I recommend the show to everyone. Everyone will love it.