For years, there’s been talk about Transformers and G.I. Joe, two of Hasbro’s biggest toy franchises, crossing over in a theatrical setting. In 2023, the groundwork was finally laid for that with the G.I. Joe tease tacked onto Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ ending, but it remains to be seen whether this crossover movie will actually happen. However, there’s a different kind of onscreen Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover that’s being put together, and I’m jazzed about Invincible’s Robert Kirkman being involved with it.
Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment are teaming up to make an adult animated series called Energon Universe, which is based on the same-named comic book franchise published by Skybound. Lucifer’s Joe Henderson has been tapped to write the series and serve as showrunner, and Deadline states that Energon Universe will be “broad, with adult sensibility in the vein of Kirkman’s gritty adult animated series Invincible.” The Transformers and G.I. Joe characters will be joined by Void Rivals, an original IP created by Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici in 2023 that’s part of the same comic book line.
