Creature Commandos (Animated series)
Release date: Late 2024
If there’s one thing James Gunn loves, it’s a ragtag band of ne’er do wells. Before he took over the DC universe, he directed Guardians of the Galaxy in three films and a holiday special, as well as The Suicide Squad. Now he’s bringing his eye for comic book outcasts to the world of animation with Creature Commandos. Imagine characters like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, and a humanoid weasel (named Weasel) coming together to form a military squad, and you get the idea. Creature Commandos stars Alan Tudyk as the permanently-radioactive Dr. Phosphorous, David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein (no relation to this gallery’s author), and Frank Grillo as Rick Flag, Sr.
Returning from previous DC projects will be Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Steve Agee as John Economos, and Sean Gunn as Weasel (and also G.I. Robot, a military android built for the express purpose of killing Nazis). Gunn wrote the seven-episode series himself, and has said that much of the work on it is done already. Even so, Gunn has been cagey about the release date–when asked if it was coming out in “early 2024 or late 2024” on social media, he replied simply, “Later.” Note Gunn’s intentional vagueness–he could mean that the series has slipped into 2025, but it’s impossible to say.
