We might still be waiting a while for The Boys season 3, but there are good news for fans of the Vought universe: showrunner Eric Kripke is bringing to life an animated anthology series titled Diabolical for Prime Video.

This is the second The Boys spinoff to be ordered by Amazon, joining a Young Adult superhero college series that was greenlit in September. The announcement teaser, revealed at Brazil’s Comic-Con, gives very little away: there’s a dog (looking an awful lot like Billy Butcher’s English bulldog, Terror) licking his balls and… okay yeah, that’s it. But we do know it’s set in the same world as The Boys, and that’s reason enough to look forward to the show’s release.

Kripke assembled a varied group of fabulous creators to write the show’s eight episodes, including stories from original comic creator Garth Ennis, Awkwafina, Eliot Glazer and Ilana Glazer, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, Simon Racioppa, Justin Roiland and Ben Bayouth, Andy Samberg and Aisha Tyler.

“They blew the doors off it,” praised Kripke, “delivering eight completely unexpected, funny, shocking, gory, moist, emotional episodes. You think The Boys is nuts? Wait till you see this.”

The series was announced by The Boys star Karl Urban in the video below. Diabolical is due to premiere “early next year,” though no more precise date was given.

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