Lion-O

So it's, it's, uh, Tallis is a hero and he's a budding hero that, um, uh, has to battle Ramus.

And, um, uh, he's, it's sort of like war of the worlds meets like the silver surfer, um, Lion-O from the Thundercats, right? So they go kind of across different worlds and they've got to battle this evil being and save his people.

Some of the things I liked in the second issue that we got to check out are the V.

You remember the show V? The vibes of that, of the ship showing up in the city.

I wasn't going to,

no. You've got to be practicing your Lion-O voice.

Thunder, thunder,

thunder.

Well, with the interview.

I'm terrible at it, but, you know, and we do get to be.

It's Lion-O.

Absolutely.

This is an interesting take on ThunderCats here.

We're seeing a l- a young Lion-O, um, who, uh, isn't the Lion-O that we know, uh, because of some changes that happens in this issue.

But, uh, yeah, I think it's a different enough of a twist that it's got me excited.

I'm just happy to see Panthro again.

Yeah

YeahHe could take care of this, no problem

Um, so yes, we do have a longer Li- a younger Lion-O.

We have, um, we've crossed over with the Silverhawks here.

[laughs] Cheese snogs.

People call, um, in America, they call it the Cheeto claw, which basically means, uh, when you've eaten them, your fingers are just orange like Lion-O from Thundercats.

And, uh, 'cause there's so many additives on it.

But this is-

No, it, look, I, I, I get it and I, I mean, hon- honestly, you know, j- just to kind of say, I, like, I've, I've never met Frank Welker or Peter Cullen.

Um, honestly, the, the, the biggest one I met, uh, for myself personally was, uh, I met Larry Ken- Ke- Kenny, who did the original Lion-O voice.

Yeah.

And it's kind of his natural voice is Lion-O's voice.

And, you know, so to, to put it in a little bit of, of, of backstory here-

I'm getting goosebumps thinking about that

And on the wall they had the Sword of Omens.

And I knew Larry Kenney was going to be at the, at the show.

While Barrett has to play the role of the ruthless structural architect, basically dismantling the teenage fever dream so it can function as a two-hour movie.

I can vividly imagine the debates, like Barrett pointing at a whiteboard saying, "Adam, we cannot dedicate 45 minutes of the first act to Lion-O simply learning the lore of the Eye of Thundera."

We'd have to establish the central conflict.

Right, and Wingard just gripping his old notebook, you know, refusing to yield a single detail of the mythology.

So he wants to take the literal two-dimensional drawings from a 1985 animation cell, render them with the hyper-advanced lighting engine of a modern blockbuster effects house, but aggressively refuse to tone down the crazy proportions.

That is exactly what he's attempting.

I mean, Lion-O's hair alone is a physical impossibility.

Precisely, and that is where the danger of the uncanny valley comes into play.