Last week, Variety reported that Amazon MGM Studios is developing an animated show based on Monstress, the Eisner Award-winning Image Comics series from writer Marjorie Liu and artist Sana Takeda. Steven Maeda is taking the reins as a writer and executive producer, roles he also assumed for Netflix’s One Piece live-action adaptation.

Liu and Takeda’s Monstress debuted in 2015 and has been going strong since. It follows Maika Halfwolf, a teenager whose body harbors a monstrous hidden entity. Maika knows little about the creature, or what links her to it. Together with the former slave child Kippa the fox-girl and the “nekomancer” cat Ren, Maika journeys to find answers. They navigate a burgeoning conflict between humans and magical creatures like Maika, known as arcanics.

Amazon has had a strong track record in developing comics for the small screen, and Monstress has the potential to be the best one yet. Though Paper Girls struggled to find an audience — a shame, as it was, by all accounts, a great show — The Boys is entering its fifth (and final) season, and has produced successful spinoffs, with more on the way. Invincible has also landed with audiences........

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