Rest easy, residents of Townsville, the Powerpuff Girls are back in comics. Dynamite and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products are collaborating on the project, led by the creative team of writer Kelly Thompson (Captain Marvel) and artist Paulina Ganucheau (Wonder Woman). The new Powerpuff Girls comics begin in the summer of 2024.

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are kindergarten-aged superheroines known as the Powerpuff Girls. Gaining powers from Professor Utonium’s Chemical X, the pint sized girls became superheroines and have dedicated themselves to protecting Townsville from supervillains and petty criminals alike.

“I have to say, I am a very big fan of The Powerpuff Girls,” Thompson said. “So much so that when I was young – just out of art school – I even wrote a few short stories and began to storyboard them in hopes I could get a job on the show! So this just feels… exactly right. I was over the moon to get the offer.”

“I grew up obsessed with them. Had my own PPG OC and everything,” Ganucheau said. “I was on a Powerpuff Girls oekaki board way back in the day where all we did was draw in that style. I remember calling into Cartoon Network for PPG merch giveaways even. So yeah, safe to say: very exciting!”

The comics will feature the adorable Powerpuff Girls with their father/Professor Utonium, the Mayor of Townsville, and Miss Keane, plus the show’s popular villains like Mojo Jojo, HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Sedusa, the Rowdyruff Boys, and others. Thompson stated that, like the original cartoon, the comic will be aimed at both younger and adult readers. Each issue will present done-in-one stories so that readers can pick up any issue without having missed anything from a previous installment.  

“I was like, y’know who’d write an unbelievably awesome Powerpuff Girls story? Probably Kelly ‘Eisner-Freaking-Award-Winner’ Thompson. And then I was like, y’know what artist’d blow people’s minds drawing The Powerpuff Girls? Probably Paulina ‘Eventually-Will-Be-An-Eisner-Winner-Too’ Ganucheau. And after seeing what KT/PG have cooked up, I can confirm that my ‘probably’s’ have turned into ‘definitely’s,’” editor Nate Cosby said.

Ganucheau created the lead cover for Powerpuff Girls #1; Leonardo Romero (who collaborated with Thompson on Birds of Prey), Karen S. Darboe, and Nicoletta Baldari provided variant covers. Powerpuff Girls #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors’ May PREVIEWS catalog.