Grim! Yes, Grim is officially becoming Netflix’s next adult animated series, and the creators of Wednesday are leading the project. The Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar act as the executive producers for the Netflix adaptation. The announcement makes it clear: Grim is no longer just a comic, but rather a heavy contender for getting screened.The series derives its plot from the Grim comic from BOOM! Studios, scripted by Stephanie Phillips, and drawn by Flaviano. As the Netflix adaptation is being developed, the contenders of the comic and of the paranormal stories are keeping a close watch, mainly because a capable production team is being formed around the source material.The Grim Comic: What it is, where it came from to start with?In May of 2022, the comic Grim was released from BOOM! Studios. It was written by Stephanie Phillips and drawn by Flaviano. The story follows the life of Jessica Harrow, who is a Reaper, assigned to take souls to the afterlife.But Jessica is different from other Reapers: she has no recollection of her life before death, and she has no clue as to how or why she died. This memory loss is the basis of the main mystery of the comic, which is heavily emotional and narratively charged.Jessica navigates a highly organized, bureaucratic system that manages the passage of souls into the afterlife, making her role even more complex. The comic delves into cosmic secrets, existential dilemmas, and Jessica's very connection with the Grim Reaper.The journey offers sophisticated storytelling with a touch of dark humor underneath the surface. The realm of the dead is portrayed as not merely spiritual, but a combination of metaphysical and organizational systems in Grim.Although the comic book talks about in-world terms and labels (for instance, talking about the death department's organizational structure), those exact words have not been made public as part of the Netflix series. It is still uncertain whether the series will stick to the comic lore entirely.Who's getting Grim done for the Netflix adaptation?Netflix has finally decided to work on Grim, and it will be animated for adult viewers, which is quite a bold step. The show has a marvelous and top-class creative team. Alfred “Al” Gough and Miles Millar have already sealed their fate as showrunners and executive producers for the series with Millar/Gough Ink Dot in charge.Thus, their participation signifies the continuation of their previous work in genre television and their capability to deal with complicated, character-driven narratives. Executive producer again is the animation specialist, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, whose works include Love, Death + Robots.Grim, being a supernatural and existential project, being animated for adults is quite interesting, as she has even got a background in using animation to handle mature audiences.Production for BOOM! Studios is represented by Stephen Christy and Adam Yoelin (executive producers), along with Mette Norkjaer (co-executive producer). Most importantly, the original creators, Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano, are also involved as co-executive producers.The adaptation, therefore, has the advantage of direct input from the legit developers of the comic’s world and characters.Source material: How the comic provides the foundation View this post on Instagram Instagram PostThe comic has a fully finished collection of 25 issues, thus providing Netflix with the entire story arc to reproduce. The plot is finished; the writers of the adaptation have a clear map: they can go through Jessica's whole story, the myths of the afterlife, and the main mysteries that characterized the first series.Jessica's character in the comic is totally transformed; not only does she perform the duties of her Reaper, but she also finds out her own history, challenges the cosmic laws, and reveals powerful and secret layers. This plot is so rich and self-contained that it is very useful for the adaptation.BOOM! Studios, through their producers, are very much involved with Netflix, which is a great help for the adaptation from page to screen in terms of keeping the original's intent and tone intact.There has been no public announcement of a release date. No casting (voice cast) information has been released to the public yet.Themes and story direction (Based on the comic)Even though the Netflix series does not reveal all the details, the themes from the comic provide a clear indication of what the show might cover:Identity & memory: The lack of memory is not only a personal issue but a narrative engine that makes Jessica go on questioning the true essence of her being.Bureaucracy of death: Grim depicts the afterlife as a place with systems, rules, roles, and processes that make it as structured as an organization.Cosmic mystery: The comic uncovers the cosmic structures, secret powers, and architecture of the afterlife. Jessica's journey is not only procedural but also metaphysical.Dark humor & irony: Grim merges the seriousness of death and cosmic scales with moments of black irony that have the audience contemplate the preposterousness of systems even in the afterlife.As Netflix has not provided any detailed story outlines, it is thus unclear which of these themes will get the limelight, or if all comic arcs will be adapted in full or in part.Netflix is still developing Grim as an adult animated series, for which Al Gough and Miles Millar are attached to the project. The series is a conceptualization of the comic book by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano, published by BOOM! Studios, whose 25-issue storyline came to an end.Key production members from both Netflix and BOOM! are working on the project. Release date, casting, episode structure, and precise adaptation choices have not been announced yet.To put it another way, many details remain unknown, including the visual style, specific plotlines being adapted, and the voice cast. Until Netflix releases more information, the direction of the series remains uncertain. At this point, the show is just a project that could be excellent, but until more details are given, the precise nature of it is still unknown.Also read: Is NBC’s Grimm getting a reboot? Elizabeth Tulloch shares a positive update with her latest statement