Will Friedle Play Radiant Black in New Animated Short Connected to RADIANT BLACK #15

Radiant Black fans were given a huge treat with the release of Radiant Black #15 last week. I love this comic and it just took things up a notch as it released an animated short. You can read the story behind the short over on Black Market News and in the back of the issue itself. In short, creator and writer Kyle Higgins was working with artist Marcelo Costa and editor Michael Busuttil a long time ago and thanks to an idea from Mat Groom (Inferno Girl Red), decided they wanted to explore the creation of a new superhero in our modern superhero saturated pop culture. This eventually led to the story that we got in Radiant Black #15 and if you’re concerned about spoilers, stop reading here.

In the comic, an in-universe YouTube channel known for viral “who would win” videos. The new video that they’re making sees our hero Radiant Black facing off against Blaze from C.O.W.L.. Marshall’s not very happy about this, but after some script-reworking by Nathan, learning that in-universe Will Friedle (Batman Beyond, Boy Meets World) is playing Radiant Black, and his recent encounter with Doppler, he decides to help the video out. This is all really cool, but what’s even better is that the team then made a real animated short that fans could watch that is this in-universe fan film. Friedle does voice Radiant Black, Reginald James voices Blaze, Rick Cramer voices Geoffrey, and David Sobolov voices The Robot.

This video makes me wish that we could get an animated series for Radiant Black with Friedle voicing Marshall. I would watch that in a heartbeat! Go ahead and read the comic and then watch the video which I’ve included below.