Donald Glover developed an animated Deadpool series for FX, and I still haven’t forgiven Marvel for canceling it before airing a single episode. Glover is perfectly suited to a Deadpool show; he cut his teeth on Community , which helped pave the way for this kind of self-aware humor, and he successfully mixed genres, upended tropes, and kept his audience on their toes in Atlanta .

Cartoons are a great medium for both meta comedy and deeper social satire, as we’ve seen in The Simpsons and South Park . Animation is a boundless art form with limitless visual possibilities, as we’ve seen in Big Mouth and BoJack Horseman . You can subvert the usual expectations of a conventional narrative, as we’ve seen with the loosey-goosey continuity of Family Guy .

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