If you’ve spent any time around the social medias, you’ve no doubt seen a cartoon strip shared where a bunch of blue aliens with bulbous heads describe a mundane occurrence in modern life with outrageously overwritten dialogue. That’s the gimmick of Strange Planet, the webcomic created by Nathan Pyle, and next month, it becomes one of just a handful of webcomics to rise high enough to get its own animated adaption. (Nimona, the movie that debuted on Netflix last month, also had Web origins.)
Given what Strange Planet is and how it’s set up, those familiar with it might be wondering just how it translates into a TV show. It’s delivered one bite at a time for a reason; a half-hour of nothing but aliens wandering around calling a toilet a “waste deposit device” or a bird an “airborne cat-nourishment container” would get old quickly, one would think. But it’s not like this kind of thing hasn’t been attempted before. There were TWO TV specials made from Gary Larson’s Far Side, a strip that, while excellent, has no real direction to latch onto.
Likewise, the Strange Planet strip has no main characters or central location, and all the aliens look nearly the same. According to a Polygon reporter who’s seen the show, it doesn’t attempt to give the world a center it didn’t have before…rather, it operates as an anthology series, following different aliens at different times.
But Strange Planet has an ace up its sleeve: Dan Harmon. The co-creator of Rick and Morty, another sci-fi series full of aliens, he’s also producing this cartoon and would know how to market this sort of thing. Does Strange Planet have what it takes to compete in the big world of TV animation? We’ll find out August 9 when the first season premieres on Apple TV+.
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