Venture Bros. baddies hangin' outside the lady's room at Chicago Comic-Con

Yeah, you can never go wrong with Monarch henchmen cosplay.

And hangin' with obscure Guild villains, no less, kudos!

Just one of many awesome shots courtesy of Mania's 18 Cool Cosplay Costumes from Chicago Comic-Con.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The Venture Bros.

When we first saw this mash-up of Scott Pilgrim and The Venture Bros. floating around on Twitter, it made our day. The piece was created by Annie Wu, a Baltimore-based artist and recent graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, as part of a contest Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley held. She didn't win, but her work has traveled amongst fans of both series.

via blogs.laweekly.com

Go Team Pilgrim!

Boondocks Season Three DVD Set Gets (Approximate) Release Date

So tonight is either the season or the series finale of the Boondocks.  I sincerely hope it's the former, but in any case season three has come to an end and that means a sweet DVD set in the near future.

As I do with many Adult Swim shows, I pre-ordered the season from Amazon before the season even premiered, and they recently contacted me to let me know that a release date has been set.

After sending me several e-mails saying that they still had no delivery estimate for me, Amazon notified me yesterday that they now expect that I will receive The Boondocks: The Complete Third Season between November 8-12, 2010.  Not quite an official, locked-in release date - but getting close.

I'll update again when I do know when the box set is set to drop, and I'll be watching the season three finale "It's Goin' Down" tonight, hoping that it's not the end of the road for this great show.

Will The Boondocks Really End Sunday Night?

This season of Aaron McGruder‘s award winning, satirical comic-turned-cartoon The Boondocks began on a bittersweet note. The promotional trailer opened with the words “The Final Season.” However, with only one episode to go, details on the truth in this statement as well as reasons for the departure of the hit series have been virtually nonexistent. To make matters worse, the network (Adult Swim) remains ambiguous as to whether or not we can all kiss Huey, Riley, and the gang goodbye.

For one thing, in the promos that have aired all week the upcoming and final episode is touted as a “season finale,” not a “series finale.” On top of that, BoondocksBootleg.com, described as the “official unofficial website of The Boondocks” and launched/approved by McGruder himself, has a thread that allows fans of the series to pitch ideas for new episodes for the series. Hit animated series Family Guy has employed this same tactic, so it may be that some of the ideas get used or that they at least provide starting points for episodes and story arcs for the series. At any rate, the series may not be over yet.

via live.drjays.com

Man I hope this isn't the end. A recent Adult Swim bump featured viewer mail, inquiring as to whether there may one day be a Boondocks movie - the reply was that, given the 3-year waiting period between seasons, they didn't see Aaron McGruder and Co. taking more time off to make a feature film. No mention of this being the last season in that bump, or in any other promos I've seen, except for the pre-season trailers featured on boondocksbootleg.com.

Can anyone confirm or deny this? Preferably deny?

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE ANIMATION — Watch the Whole Thing!

Adult Swim’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation was scheduled at sort of a weird time – midnight on Thursday going into Friday last night, the exact same time that many hardcore fans would be at theaters watching a midnight screening of a little live-action film called Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Luckily, as things tend to happen in the 21st century, they posted all four glorious minutes of the short, adapting scenes from volume 2 of the Oni graphic novels, on their Web site this morning!

via blog.newsarama.com

This Is What I Do When I'm Hungry

Seriously.

The Boondocks gets to go out with a season - or possibly series finale this Sunday, but my friends and family will forevermore have to listen to my mantra "Mah babies want their muh-f**kin' chicken!" when I'm feeling peckish.

Damn you, Aaron MacGruder!  I am a white!  Childless!  Man!

Not cool.  Plus this is one of the best Adult Swim shows ever and that's saying an awful lot.  Three-year waiting periods between seasons are a drag, but losing the show permanently would be a lot worse.

New Boondocks Tonight: The Color Ruckus

Yeeeaah boyee new Boondocks episode!  Yes, it would seem that at least part of the plot has been seen before in one of the greatest-ever King of the Hill episodes.

Don't care.  I will never tire of the "this bitch wants to die in my house!" trope.

Well, never say never - but I can certainly put up with it twice in one decade.  And I want to meet the rest of Ruckus' family!

Venture Bros. Season 4-and-a-Half Trailer!

Pick yourself up and wet-nap the vomit off of your speed-suit, junior science cadet!  It's time for more Venture Bros.!

It's time... to save the world.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation

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At the behest of Universal the folks at the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim have created a four-minute animated sequence from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. The short, which animates a flashback that was not included in the Scott Pilgrim movie, chronicles the beginning of the friendship between Scott and Kim Pine, who eventually becomes the drummer in his band.

The four-minute short, entitled “Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation,” will air on Adult Swim on Thursday, August 12th in two parts between 12 midnight (ET, PT) and 12:30 am. Edgar Wright’s film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World opens in theaters across North America on August 13th.

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