Netflix's Kid Cosmic is really an indictment of bad fans

Slate

The Powerpuff Girls creator Craig McCracken’s new Netflix animated series attempts to pull off a similar feat as his old show, "but with a slightly more focused aim. The show is about learning how to be a good hero, yes, but it’s also about the tendency to gatekeep in fandom, and the importance of learning how to share," says Karen Han, adding: "Kid Cosmic revolves around growth, first in terms of Kid’s acceptance of his team members and second when it comes to sharing something that, until this point, he’s thought of as solely his. None of his teammates are particularly interested in comics (after all, one of them is a cat), but they’re still superheroes, and—in a major point of contention in the show—often better in a scrape than Kid is." ALSO: McCracken says a big influence on Kid Cosmic was Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin, because that was cartoony but grounded in reality.