The Staggering Tales of The Skulk

The Staggering Tales of The Skulk is a British-American superhero animated series created by Arthur Routh and Paradox. The series aired its first episode on August 29, 2019, and is Paradox's first animated series, having been released days after the series launched.

The series is primarily inspired by old audio dramas and black and white movie serials, set in the 1930s in the fictional Westside City in America. The city is frequently the battleground between good and evil as the masked vigilante known as The Skulk fights off the many menaces plaguing the civilians using a variety of gadgets, such as his "multi-purpose, highly advanced, techno-gauntlets". In his day to day life, The Skulk masquerades as the cowardly reporter Conway Ryan, a man of Irish descent who uses his career to get the drop on crime as the news comes in. The threats which The Skulk faces range in size and power, from mob bosses, to the Nazis, to occultists, and, of course, supervillains.

Main

 * TBA as "Conway Ryan"/The Skulk: The main protagonist of the series who is a reporter by day and doubles as the masked vigilante The Skulk at night. Conway Ryan acts like a cowardly bafoon in his civilian identity, contrasted by his serious and scarily efficient nature as The Skulk. He remains a very mysterious character throughout most of the series, with it being revealed even his supposed "real name" is just another alias he uses, though his motvation for being The Skulk seems to be that he has a very shady past that he wishes to make up for. He fights with a variety of gadgets, most notably his techn-gauntlets, which possess a number of abilities (or "modes").
 * TBA as Socrates "Sock" Roberts: The inventor of the many gadgets that The Skulk uses in his crime-fighting quest. He is an older man who speaks with a thick English accent and speaks like a thespian. He is also one of The Skulk's many mentors and the man whom he currently lives with in his civilian identity, pretending to be his grandfather.

Antagonists

 * TBA as Walter Lawson/The Stranger: One of the main antagonists of the series, Walter Lawson is self-proclaimed as being a villain and wishes to be the archenemy of The Skulk. He was repeatedly experimented on by a group called Cicada and was granted psychic abilities which he uses to terrorize the streets of Westside City. His sanity shattered by the experiments, he is primarily motivated by his bizarre belief that crime as an artform and has set high standards for himself and his henchmen, to the point that he refuses to mind control The Skulk due to seeing it as cheating.
 * TBA as Director Hartwell Mitchells: The head of Project Cicada and the overarching antagonist for most of the series, as well as the main antagonist of the seventh season. He is a mad scientist who is obsessed with perfecting the human mind and body, which results in him and his men performing horrific experiments on innocent people. It's eventually revealed his primary motivation is that he has a degenerative muscle disorder which he wishes to cure and in the present day has shut down most of his body and forced him to have to speak with the aid of a computer.