![]() ![]() “We weren’t gonna see Hank until like, the third episode of the season, he was gonna be missing. “A lot of what Hank was going through was part of my plan ,” Publick said. Publick and Hammer say the story ideas for the film emerged organically out of ideas they originally had in mind for the series’ eighth season, and ideas tied to long-standing questions they wanted to answer with the show’s finale. The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart picks up one week after the cliffhanger of the series’ seventh season, with the Office of Secret Intelligence mounting a nationwide manhunt in search of Hank Venture after his sudden disappearance. creators over Zoom ahead of the release of Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart to talk about what went into the making of the finale, how they decided which questions to answer and which to leave open, and how their particular creative partnership spawned one of the greatest animated comedies of all time. With the exception of one episode - penned by the pair’s mutual friend/mentor Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick - Publick and Hammer wrote over 80 episodes of the series together over the show’s 16-year run. is almost solely the creation of Publick and Hammer. ![]() The quality, ambition, and lunacy of The Venture Bros. It was prestige TV-era storytelling with supersuits, dick jokes, and idiosyncratic charm. Publick and Hammer wove together a tapestry of pop-cultural ephemera to tell a story of a generation of men haunted by the expectations of their forebears while at once growing into their own people. And by the show’s accidental finale, the creative team had amassed a sprawling set of characters and interwoven storylines that presaged and arguably outdid the kind of world-building made famous by the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture, his Hardy Boys-esque teenage sons Hank and Dean, and their hulking bodyguard, Brock Samson. The satirical action series followed the globe-trotting misadventures of Dr. in 2020, an abrupt ending to a seven-season run that started in 2004, the feature-length finale properly concludes the unhinged parodic brainchild of Eric “Doc” Hammer and Christopher McCulloch, aka Jackson Publick. After Adult Swim canceled The Venture Bros. The July release of The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart properly closes the book on one of the all-time great animated series. ![]()
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