Kid Cosmic

***Kid Cosmic*** is a 2021 Netflix animated television series created by Craig McCracken. It premiered on February 2, 2021. The 2nd Season Premiered September 7, 2021, The 3rd and final season premiered on February 3, 2022, ending with 3 Seasons.

## Premise

"Kid Cosmic follows the adventures of an imaginative and enthusiastic boy who lives with his free-spirited Grandpa in a sparsely populated desert town. The Kid's dreams of being a hero seem to come true when he discovers five Cosmic Stones of Power in a wrecked spaceship. He forms a team of local heroes to stop an onslaught of alien attacks to steal back the stones. Though the Kid and his team are the good guys, they're really bad at it, and the Kid learns that his fantasy of being a hero is very different from the reality of what it actually means to become one."
## Production

McCracken's idea of 'Kid Cosmic' came in 2009, but McCracken realized that the concept needed to be serialized and thought out more, and did not pursue it on the side for several years. McCraken returned to the series when more networks were available to serialization in comic adaptations. McCracken presented Netflix the animatic for the pilot, which was well-received, and greenlit the series in ten 22-minute episodes 10-episode.

On November 6, 2018, Netflix announced 'Kid Cosmic' as one of the upcoming projects in production for their animated programming.

## Characters

* Jack Fisher as Kid
* Amanda C. Miller as Jo
* Keith Ferguson as Papa G, Carl, Crushtaceor, Lord Koregore
* Lily Rose Silver as Rosa
* Fred Tatasciore as Tuna Sandwich, Hamburg, Death Dog, Corgor The Conqueror, Great Leader, Meep, Puffball, Gortho the Gargarian
* Tom Kenny as Stuck Chuck
* Kim Yarbrough as Flo
* Grey Griffin as Carla, Ramona Flores, Violet Vanish, Grathla
* Christian Lanz as Carlos Flores
* Eric Bauza as Fry, Emerald Wing, Master Wilkson
* Cree Summer as Queen Xhan
* Sam Riegel as PT-SB
* Phil LaMarr as Golden Swarm
* Michaela Dietz as Blue Behemoth
* Jason Hightower as Biker in Black
* Rich Fulcher as Zarkon, Saucerman

## Trivia

* *Kid Cosmic* is based on McCracken's experiences as a child, and the sentiment that kids have naïve confidence that whatever they want to do can happen. Elements are likewise based on his initial confidence when he first began his entrepreneurship as a cartoonist.
	+ New Mexico was chosen as the series' setting to pay tribute to its iconic association with the 1947 Roswell spaceship crash rumor.
* The series was originally slated to air in 2020 but was changed to 2021.
* The series features a hand-drawn retro style as a balance between the series's grounded reality and cartoon nature. Inspiration came from from classic cartoons and comics, such as *Dennis the Menace* and *The Adventures of Tintin*.

## External links

* Kid Cosmic on Wikipedia
* Kid Cosmic on IMDb

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Close Encounters of the Retro Kind: Craig McCracken Discusses His New Show ‘Kid Cosmic’. Animation Magazine (January 5, 2021).
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kid Cosmic. Netflix Media Center.
3. ↑ Nico Colaleo on Twitter
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Netflix Unveils ‘The Willoughbys’, ‘Maya And The Three’, & More In Animated Slate. Deadline (November 6, 2018).