Rat Queens to become and Animated TV Series

[Tev]

I must say, I'm really looking forward to this being a thing...

After working on such films as the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, Weta Workshop’s Pukeko Pictures is pairing up with Heavy Metal to adapt Image Comics’ “Rat Queens” into an animated TV series.

The dark comedy, described as a sass-and-sorcery series, revolves around beer-guzzling maidens — Hannah the Rockabilly elven mage, Violet the hipster dwarven fighter, Dee the atheist human cleric and Betty the hippy smidgen thief — who are hired to kill monsters and other beasts.

Image Comics and Shadowline publish the “Rat Queens” books created by Kurtis Weibe and Roc Upchurch.

My fiance and I are big fans of this series. I do admit to being a little conflicted between hoping that it doesn't get too softened up so as to appeal to a much younger audience and understanding that this kind of representation is what young female audiences need in television programing.