Aeon Flux Now Has Something To Say

First Garbo talked, then Maggie Simpson. Now, Aeon Flux breaks her silence.

After two seasons without dialogue on MTV’s “Liquid Television,” a showcase of short experimental films, the femme fatale faces the two biggest challenges of her short-attention-span life. Aeon Flux, a futuristic superassassin who parades around in a body and clothing that RuPaul would die for, is getting her own weekly half-hour animation series on MTV, starting tonight at 10.

And she finally gets to speak. No surprise - kind of low and kind of husky (thanks to actress Denise Poirier).

“It was time to give her a voice,” says “Aeon Flux” creator and animator Peter Chung. “We wanted to tell stories that were more character-driven, as opposed to more action-driven.”

But he promises that “Aeon Flux” will continue to be as unconventional as, well, Aeon Flux herself.

Unlike other TV series, each episode of “Flux” is an independent story. Although the same characters appear each week, they may be heroes one week and villains the next. Set against an eerie, apocalyptic landscape, the plots revolve around Aeon Flux and her sometime soulmate and archrival Trevor Goodchild - and their tug of war over the world.