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Your Full Schedule For Adult Swim Con

Your Full Schedule For Adult Swim Con

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The only good thing about 2020 is that you don’t have to pay to attend Comic-Con! The festivities commence tomorrow and involve a variety of entertainment companies, most of which will be streaming their announcements and panels live for all to watch. Adult Swim in particular has three solid days’ worth of panels ahead, which begin tomorrow. On Thursday, July 23, head to Adultswimcon.com to watch the following informative presentations: Look Who’s Bawkin’: Robot Chicken Live 5 PM Pacific / 8 PM Eastern Bawk, Bawk, Bawk! Join Seth Green, Matt Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Donald Faison and Katee Sackhoff as we bewilder them with our favorite Robot Chicken clips. Find out what they really think about the new season of Robot Chicken and send them questions LIVE using the magical services of the World Wide Web. YOLO: Crystal Fantasy Presents Flying Lotus Fantasy DJ Set 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern Dear Citizen, you have been invited to the sacred genesis of Adult Swim’s newest, hottest show: YOLO: Crystal Fantasy.

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Announced For Summer

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Announced For Summer

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Jack is back! Sort of. The cartoon series has wrapped up its story for good (thank you, Adult Swim), but you can experience a lost chapter from the wandering samurai’s adventures when Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is released for consoles and PC. It turns out that right before Jack went into his final confrontation with the villainous (yet loveable) Aku, the dark demon zapped Jack into an alternate timeline! (What, again?) To return, Jack must team up with the friends he gained throughout the series to re-battle the entire lineup of villains he faced during those five seasons. The narrative is, essentially, an excuse to give Samurai Jack fans what they want from a game. You decide if it’s canon. Want to know more about Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time? There’s no demo yet, but the game will be shown off at PAX East. Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky and head writer Darrick Bachman will be in attendance at the Adult Swim Games panel, which takes place in the

Samurai Jack: The Fifth Season Review

Samurai Jack: The Fifth Season Review

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Samurai Jack has finished his journey. One of the top-drawer quality cartoons of the 2000’s was given its long-overdue wrap-up as of last Sunday, thanks to an opening in creator Genndy Tartakovsky’s schedule and the willingness of Adult Swim to spend the money. Minus a brief break on April Fool’s Day, ten new episodes of Samurai Jack ran consecutively — and told one solid tale. Season 5 introduced something new to the series: continuity, and tight continuity at that. Looking back at the season as a whole, there is no scene that feels pointless or unnecessary to the story. To give one example, the scat-robot Scaramouche looked and felt like another one-episode throwaway villain, and was treated as such with his apparent destruction at the end of Episode XCII. A few half-hours later the revelation comes that his head survived and it’s playing a pivotal role in the plot by relaying some important news to Aku. By the time he’s abruptly blown up, we’ve gotten to know him enough to

Samurai Jack: Episode 1 Review

Samurai Jack: Episode 1 Review

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Back in the 90’s when Cartoon Network was just a small channel surviving on endless Hanna-Barbera repeats, they took their first steps into original content with a shorts program designed to find talent. And talent they found — Genndy Tartakovsky, fresh out of college, who over the next few years blessed us with some of the best cartoons of the time period: Dexter’s Laboratory, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan and Samurai Jack. Tartakovsky toons are some of the most well-directed in existence. He knows how to effectively use pacing, wide shots, pans and other tricks to pull you into a scene. He can punctuate a gag with perfection or make an action scene take your breath away. And it was a sad day when CN declined to renew Sym-Bionic Titan and allowed Tartakovsky to get away. He’s survived directing Hotel Transylvania films ever since, but it’s not the same. What’s most smarted about this was the fact that Samurai Jack was never fully completed. So what about Jack needed

Samurai Jack Creator Talks Depth of New Show

Samurai Jack Creator Talks Depth of New Show

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Samurai Jack is making his long awaited return with a 10-episode miniseries that will finally give the show the ending it deserves. 13 years ago, the show ended very unceremoniously and without an ending. But now, creator Genndy Tartakovsky is back, and he’s ready to give the show its due. For him, it means respecting the old show and taking it to a new level. “Generally, we wanted to do what we did in the old days, but do it newer, do it better.” said the creator in a press event covered by IGN, “The tone of the story just drove us. That was really the biggest motivation. The storytelling, because it’s this one arc, was more interesting because now we could take our time, we wouldn’t have to rush through anything. Where it’s going is a really huge arc, and it’s hopefully really satisfying at the end.” For him, even though the show was gone, he held onto the idea of Samurai Jack for a long time, and knew that

Samurai Jack: Season 5 Teasers

Samurai Jack: Season 5 Teasers

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Samurai Jack is finally coming back. It’s been over 12 years in the making: the long-awaited return of Samurai Jack. The show returns to Cartoon Network in a little over a month. It will be a part of the Toonami block on Adult Swim. Adult Swim recently released a new teaser of the upcoming season, with some very brief, new footage. You can check out that out below. There’s also another teaser that aired on Adult Swim. This one actually shows Jack. He’s wearing samurai armor. He looks older and has a long beard, and he’s riding a motorcycle. It’s very interesting, but it’s still great to finally see back in action. Hopefully, there will be more footage and trailers ahead of the show’s release. There’s also the question of the original theme song for the show will be back for this new season. Hopefully, that theme song will be intact as it really gets the audience jazzed up and in the mood for the show. Regardless, it’s fantastic that

Samurai Jack Returns in March

Samurai Jack Returns in March

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It’s official Samurai Jack is finally coming back later this year. Adult Swim confirmed the premiere date for the new season of Samurai Jack, which is set to join the Toonami lineup later this March. Per a promo spot on the programming block, the show returns to the airwaves on March 11 at 11:30PM. This will be the first new episode for the show since September 2004, when the last episode for the show, that premiered originally in 2001, was aired on Cartoon Network. Considering the show was about a storyline for a samurai warrior, dubbed Jack, who was trying to get back to his original timeline after being thrust into the future by an evil demon tyrant named Aku, fans never got a satisfactory conclusion to the show, that was created by animation master Genndy Tartakovsky. This is the continuation for a celebrated, classic animated show that fans have been waiting over 12 years to see. The return of Samurai Jack was announced a little over a year ago

New Samurai Jack Series Gets Behind-The-Scenes Video

New Samurai Jack Series Gets Behind-The-Scenes Video

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Samurai Jack is a series that brings joy and sadness to many. Not because of what is in the series per se, but because of what happened to it. The original series lasted 52 episodes, then abruptly ended. It had no conclusion, or true conclusion to be fair. There was rumors of a movie, but it never happened. There was a comic book series, but it ended after 20 issues. To make things even more sad, the iconic voice of Aku, Mako, passed away, leaving fans to wonder if Samurai Jack would ever return. Fans got their answer when a sequel series was announced to be coming this year to Adult Swim. In anticipation of fan questions, Adult Swim has released a behind-the-scenes video with series creator creator and director Genndy Tartakovsky, Samurai Jack himself Phil Lamarr, and the various cast to talk about the series. One thing that becomes immediately clear is that this series is set years after the “ending” of the original series. The story will reflect

Samurai Jack: New Artwork for Show’s Return

Samurai Jack: New Artwork for Show’s Return

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Cartoon Brew revealed some amazing new promo artwork for the upcoming return of the Samurai Jack animated series to Cartoon Network. The image was revealed at the Annecy Festival D’Animation in France. You can check out the full image at the above link. The new artwork shows a bearded and grizzled Jack covered in what appears to be blood. The show is slated to return later this year on the Toonami Block for Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. Production for the series is currently going on in Los Angeles, California. Genndy Tartakovsky is back to work on the show he created. Some other concept artwork from the festival also popped up online at the SHH forums. The images show an armored samurai, a samurai on a souped up motorcycle, and an image of an alien space tiger of some sort. So far all the new images look very promising. Hopefully, the new series will finally resolve the series in a satisfying way that the original never did. Based on the new artwork,

Samurai Jack Is Finally Coming Back

Samurai Jack Is Finally Coming Back

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But will he make it back to the cast. Fans have waited over a decade for the return of Samurai Jack. For a long time, it seemed that hope was lost. For years, Genndy Tartakovsky would talk about possibly doing an animated movie for Samurai Jack. There were reports of one going into development, but nothing ever materialized. Then Tartakovsky started directing animated features for Sony Pictures Animation, and it seemed like Samurai Jack would become an even more distant memory. That is no longer the case. The acclaimed series is finally returning to Cartoon Network with a brand-new season in 2016. In addition, Cartoon Network released a short, little announcement teaser video, which you can check out below. The new show will be a part of Adult Swim’s Toonami block on Cartoon Network some time in 2016. Samurai Jack creator and executive producer Genndy Tartakovsky will continue his epic story, which first debuted on Cartoon Network way back in 2001. The show has already started production at Cartoon Network

Samurai Jack: Beyond Nostalgia

Samurai Jack: Beyond Nostalgia

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Talk to anyone of school age in the nineties, and they’ll lay so much nostalgia on you, it might be nauseating. The millennials are invading your tumblrs and buzzfeeds with “OMG, xx is twenty years old now!” and “Random things you forgot about from the year 19XX”. Chances are, a lot of those things don’t hold up. In 2001, Genndy Tartakovsky created Samurai Jack, a show based on a samurai warrior thrown into a dystopian future by the demon he is sworn to defeat. Unusual for a cartoon at the time, Samurai Jack relied on a more cinematic approach to storytelling, using scene changes, a dramatic score, and visual cues to tell the story in addition to dialogue. In fact, some episodes rely less on dialogue and more on visual, lending the show to easy translation for other markets. Despite being intended for children, Samurai Jack appeals heavily to older teens and adults. The references to Japanese and Hong Kong cinema are evident (counting the nods to Toshiro Mifune’s Sanjuro