is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though Steven Universe’s time on Cartoon Network has come and gone, Amazon is stepping in to keep the story going. During a Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe panel at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar announced that Amazon is moving forward with a new spinoff series focused on side character Lars Barriga. Titled Lars of the Stars, the show will chronicle Lars’ adventures in space as he and his crew of fellow pirates “evade the authorities and uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire,” per Deadline.