Apple’s Strange Planet show has one big challenge for its voice actors

Apple TV Plus is now available Strange PlanetThe new series is based on Nathan Pyle’s hit comics with the same title.

You Know more the extraterrestrials, even if you don’t knowThey are little blue men who use archaic language to describe their experiences and have a sort of goony awe. Everyday things take on new names; teeth are “mouth stones,” a sunburn is “star damage.”

Through their adorable alien wonder, they manage to be what so many influencers cannot — relatable — as they explore the absurdity of the human condition.

The biggest challenge for the world today is to find a solution. Strange Planet’s 10 episodes, debuting on Apple TV Plus on August 9. The first two novels and the webcomic (2020 will see the sequel Stranger PlanetThe reader projected the voices that they thought were the funniest or most charming. On screen — well, like any translation to TV, these aliens are suddenly getting a whole new dimension. They will sound small and reedy. Are they fragile and precious? Can an animated show capture the verbose curiousity of these children?

Pyle’s jokes are often funny (or as the aliens might say: humorous). They mouth-push, and then display their digits loops.kiss and wedding rings, respectively), it’s easy to read their jokes with the perfect inflection. An adaptation with someone else’s voice in their place might feel jarring, the strangest leap yet for these alien fish out of the proverbial water.

The very least is to be expected Strange PlanetApple TV has a diverse cast: Tunde Adebimpe is one of them, as are Demi Adejuyigbe and Lori Tan Chinn. Community’s Danny Pudi, and Hannah Einbinder of Hacks. Apple TV’s press release didn’t say what adventures they’d be feeling their way through, but chances are it’ll be something like the arc of Strange Planet.

So maybe now’s the best time to read the book! Find out how you imagine the aliens to sound. Hopefully you’re right.

Season 1, Episode 1 Strange Planet Apple TV Plus will debut three episodes of the series on Monday, August 9.