hulus The Paloni Show! Halloween special debuted on Monday, October 15, 2022, giving indie comics fans something to shout about, Megs Coven Megahex got the comic strip it deserves. My dear kitties, Simon Hanselmann’s art is finally the star of the silver screen, and Mogg is voiced by none other than Macaulay Culkin himself.
Macaulay Culkin has returned to the screen to star Megahex, Devil’s Night,” a new animated short film shot in The Paloni Show! Halloween special, is a one-hour standalone special now available for streaming on Hulu. Culkin voices Mogg the cat, the stoner boyfriend of Megg the witch, played by social media star Emma Chamberlain. The short film’s main cast is Jon Glaser as the volatile Werewolf Jones and Dave Foley as Owl (who goes on as the voice of reason among the group).
This is just the more recent role for Culkin, who rose to cultural fame as a child actor in the 1990s thanks to his role in the Home alone movies, plus movies like Richie Rich, My girlfriendand Come see daddy. In 2013, Culkin formed the band the Pizza Underground, for which he served as vocalist; however, the band subsequently split. More recently, in 2021, Culkin enjoyed a resurgence in popularity thanks to a starring role in American Horror Story: Double Featurethe tenth season of the anthology show.
Culkin’s perceived status as a star whose glory days may have passed with his youth adds a delightful layer of metal to the casting, considering an unfavorable reading of Mogg’s comedic incarnation is like a cat who may have peaked during his high school football career — and that’s exactly the kind of humor that the World of Warcraft-loving actor seems to go for it.
Simon Hanselmann’s comics
“Devil’s Night” was created and directed by Simon Hanselmann based on his comics. The strips that form the main continuity for Hanselmann’s work were collected in the years 2014 Megahex2016 Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam (and other stories)2017’s Another year2019’s Bad gateway2020 Stems and seedsand the upcoming November 2022 release Under ambition.
In addition to these books in the prime continuity, the Eisner Award-winning 2021 Crisis zone sends the familiar characters on an odyssey that should never have been undertaken by anyone as they face the myriad challenges of the first nine months of the COVID-19 era. All of Hanselmann’s oeuvre can be ordered online via the Fantagraphics website.
This is not the first time Hanselmann tried to bring Megahex to the screen, only the first successful attempt. At the end of October 2020, during a tour of his Animal Crossing island Hanselmann told Avery Kaplan on Comics Beat that viewers would only see the characters on screen if he maintained adequate creative control, revealing that he had recently turned down a “quite well in development” film screen adaptation.
“It was actually a sure thing,” Hanselmann said. “There was a script. I just didn’t feel it. I was shocked and closed it. I wasn’t happy with the scripts. They didn’t let me write it.” It’s time to campaign for animated Werewolf Jones 2023, written by Hanselmann (and not that.) other boy).