Minor Threats, the Dark Horse Comics series about the lives of low-rent supervillains, is coming to streaming.Patton Oswalt,Jordan Blum, andScott Hepburnare adapting their work for a new Netflix series.The Hollywood Reporterhas the news that the series is being developed as a live-action project.
A superpowered satire in the vein ofThe Boys,Minor Threatswill be the second on-screen collaboration between Oswalt and Blum (Community,American Dad); the two produced the Marvel Hulu animated seriesM.O.D.O.K., which Oswalt also starred in as the titular big-headed Marvel villain. Oswalt and Blum, who co-wrote theMinor Threatscomic, will serve as showrunners, head writers, and executive producers; Hepburn, the book’s artist, will executive produce alongside Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg. The series will be part of Dark Horse Comics' first-look deal with Netflix; previous Dark Horse adaptations at the streamer includeThe Umbrella AcademyandSamurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles.
What Is ‘Minor Threats’ About?
First published by Dark Horse Comics in 2022,Minor Threatsis a four-issue miniseries that centers aroundTwilight City, a city full of suerpowered heroes and villains. The main character isPlaytime, the now-grown kid sidekick of her supervillain mother, who commits crimes with deadly mechanical toys. The heroes and villains of the city have an uneasy truce until themaniacal villain Stickman kills Kid Dusk, the partner of the Batman-like hero Insomniac. Now the whole supervillain community is in danger, unless Playtime and the regulars at the supervillain bar she frequents canget Stickman themselves. Along the way, they encounter characters on both sides of the law, and areundermined by a traitor in their ranks. The series has since spawned a sequel,Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down, and two spinoffs;The Alternates, about a team of low-level superhumans who became the greatest heroes of an alternate world; andBarfly, which stars a Brundlefly-like insectoid villain who recurs inMinor Threats.
Minor Threatsis only one of the many comic-based projects longtime comics fan Oswalt has his fingerprints on. He recurred as a series of agents on Marvel’sAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D., voiced Matthew the Raven onThe Sandman, and playedPip the Trollin the stinger scene ofEternals. He has also lent his voice to a number of animated projects, includingBatman Beyond,Axe Cop,Marvel’s Spider-Man, andJustice League Action.
Minor Threatsis in development;no release date has yet been announced. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
