The Four Color Media Monitor

Hollywood's obsession with the horror genre, along with comics themselves, continues with a cartoon adaptation of an Image series called Nights. According to the Hollywood Reporter:

Nights is hoping to light up the animation world.

An animated series based on the Image Comics horror title is in development from Titmouse, the company known for the Netflix animated series Big Mouth. Nights writer Wyatt Kennedy and artis Luigi Formisano will be involved in the adaptation.

Nights launched last year, and is a supernatural coming-of-age story taking place in a 2003 in which supernatural creatures exist alongside humans, and America is made up of just 31 states. It launched with a 12-issue arc called “Season One.”

So this is something just recent, and wins an adaptation almost instantly. And almost no comedy adaptations in sight, if at all. What do we need this kind of grating obsession with horror for? All it's doing is making a whole unfunny joke out of the art of animation as much as comicdom. Why, what if the smaller number of states suggests this is a political statement? That's hardly surprising either in this day and age. In any case, this is another waste of potential taxpayer money, and we could do without this too.

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