![]() ![]() “It’s me voicing my disappointment that we don’t have that kind of magic going on any more, that level of enthusiasm and hope,” creator Jackson Publick said in a Reason interview. ![]() Venture’s personal failures, but also the failures of the ’60s jet age to live up to its promise. The larger answer to what The Venture Bros. Venture’s archenemy, says after breaking into his lab: “What can I do to this guy that life hasn't already? I almost feel sorry for him.” Venture himself, and their grand plans to “destroy” him are revealed to be an empty game filled with melodramatic sound and fury sans any desire to actually do harm. Granted, said antagonists are just as flawed, bungled human beings as Dr. Venture’s sprawling compound, homeschooled and socially inept, way too eager to leap into the next battle against Dr. His two sons, Hank and Dean, are emotionally stunted, Hardy Boys-ish goofs, isolated on Dr. In his desperate, pathetic attempt to live up to the life that was both thrust upon him and promised to him, the familial history is repeating itself, this time as comedy. ![]() He hasn’t “invented” much of anything that isn’t a rehashing of his dad’s now-obsolete 1960s gadgets, and he’s not even a real doctor, clinging to an honorary degree to cover for the fact that he never graduated from college. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture has grown up to become a pill-popping, seething cauldron of insecurities and neuroses, resentful of his far more successful father, and wholly unable to get over the fact that he peaked in celebrity and promise as a 12-year-old. explores a world where there are actual, real-world repercussions to a childhood that was spent battling costumed villains and all manner of super-powered beings with plans for world domination, many of which saw kidnapping him as a means to that end.Īs you’d expect, Dr. The simple answer is this: The show started out as a parody of Jonny Quest, the ’60s cartoon about a boy adventurer and his super-scientist dad. For those that aren’t fans-deeply devoted, obsessed fans-it’s almost impossible to know where to begin if you want to explain the hilarious, incredibly dense, subversive comic book universe that is the long-running Adult Swim cartoon, The Venture Bros. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |