Cartoon Network's rebooted The Powerpuff Girls cartoon launched The new series is a slight re-imagining of Craig McCracken's popular action-packed characters first shown on Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon! in 1995 and later in their own series starting in 1998.
The main characters are three super powered girls, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup (created by the scientist Professor Utonium), who protect Townsville from various threats. To go along with the new cartoon, IDW Publishing has announced that they would launch a new comic series this July.
IDW has previously The Powerpuff Girls comics, including one that crossed over multiple Cartoon Network properties in the event called ". The artist on that series, Derek Charm, will also be doing the art on the new Powerpuff Girls comic. The writers for the new series (also writers on the cartoon) will be Jake Goldman and Haley Mancini, who also pulls double duty voicing the character Princess Morebucks.
The writers note that the new series is not that different from the old one. Mancini notes that there will be some expansion:
"Storytelling has changed over time, and they require a bit more of a character-driven arc. So you'll see much more of that as well as an expanded world, a la "The Simpsons." The more places and faces (both friends and foes) you can add, oftentimes, the further you can push your character's personal journey."
"I'd love to work in some long arcs (Dark Blossom Saga? Age of Mojo Jojo? Townsville Civil War?) but I think that's something you have to build to. For starters, we'd like to stick to some fun one-shot stories about mirth and mayhem."
The first story has the girls lounging around, because they are too good at their job. Mancini describes how they spend their days:
"The girls love playing the L Cube and watching their favorite show, "Space Tow Truck" -- something you'll see a lot of in the series. Besides that, they love to kick it and go out and play, and just like any kids, sometimes their boredom gets them into trouble."
That "Space Tow Truck" may be a clue to how trouble starts, as Goldman reveals that their arch-nemesis' next plan has to do with the boobtube:
"Mojo Jojo, master of all evil and purveyor of things that are most assuredly not-nice, has planned a plot so heinous, so wicked, so gruesome that it could only involve the greatest terror of all: Daytime Television."
The big-brained monkey won't be alone in causing trouble for the girls, as Mancini lists who we may also see showing up in the title:
"HIM, Morbucks, all the classics, plus a few newbies that we're excited about like Man Boy and Allegro the Panda Bear."
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