Will this be worth the wait? It looks too polished to be a Zim thing tbdesu. The sky isn't even blood red
Will this be worth the wait? It looks too polished to be a Zim thing tbdesu. The sky isn't even blood red
Owen Hughes
Jacob Thompson
That is because Jhonen's style has changed, including his coloring.
Jaxon Mitchell
He couldn't change it up to match the fitting style of the original series?
Brody Cooper
This movie is going to be more like the comics than the show, so it makes sense that he would want to update it to look like the comic.
Jason Ramirez
It might be visually different from the original, but it's still the most distinct looking thing on TV. And it's still nice to look at.
Luis Jenkins
>spends a fucking decade making fun of his own fans
>every time nick decides to air zim he teases a comeback only to end up fooling them
>comes up with a trailer for a movie that will never air and will kill what little left there was of his career
Jhonen is either the biggest ruseman in the world or a fucking masochist
Jayden King
If they brought back the same storyboarders from the original, then it'll look great. But they hired all-new storyboarders from the current Steven Universe/Adventure Time/Regular Show school of "a medium shot with the characters floating in the exact center of the screen looking at each other and making stiff gestures while barely moving" then it will look like trash.
Daniel Wood
>This movie is going to be more like the comics than the show, so it makes sense that he would want to update it to look like the comic.
Isn't Enter the Florpus going to be just a straight up adaptation of the first arc from the Oni comic revival and not even an original story? Everything they showed in the previews were just scenes from the comic translated to limited animation.
Eli Harris
is the comic even being written by jhonen?
Eli Watson
>is the comic even being written by jhonen?
Nah, the head writer is the guy who wrote most of the episodes of the TV series, though (Eric Trueheart). And Jhonen acts as editor (though they have some guest writers every so often).
The comic is actually pretty decent, but the episodic goofiness kinda wore me out after a while and I lost interest. No decline in quality or anything, but there wasn't any sort of narrative hook to keep me coming back and I eventually forgot about it entirely.
Blake Jenkins
>on TV
user...
Levi Fisher
I say that but I really mean "a production that is on a monitor somewhere". I just have no idea what to say that is short and snappy when including streams, kickstarters and youtube videos and stuff.
Luke Garcia
According to Jhonen the movie will start like the first issue of the comic, but then go into a completely different direction.
Gabriel Cox
He meant every single word of it
He legit tried to move on, but was screwed over hardcore.
At this point of his life you make do with what you got. He returned to Zim in comics, really at a different point in his life where he gave it different treatment said
Easton Murphy
I can see that. Dib loses weight because he thought Zim had a big earth ending weapon.
At the end they did a twist where Zim had the biggest universal camera (or something) and just blasted Dib all over the universe being a fat loser. The movie will probably go with it being an actual weapon.
Luis Brooks
>He legit tried to move on,
HOW? He's spent the last 17 years subsisting entirely off of JTHM reprint and Zim DVD royalties. He produced nothing creative in that entire span of time until the Zim revival comic for Oni and the new Zim movie.
Not really "moving on" when he's spent nearly 2 decades earning income exclusively from royalties and only making new stories based on his old characters.
Grayson Brooks
The vast majority of projects that enter development in the animation industry never see the light of day, user, and that goes for everything he's tried to get off the ground since Zim. He spent over half a decade on a show for Disney called Very Important House that ended up never being made, and that's just the one that we know about
Bentley Rivera
Will this continue from where the show stopped?
Henry Bennett
I think there's a thing that Disney owns the right to it, and the bar is set ridiculous high for him to buy it back.
Ryder Hernandez
>Will this continue from where the show stopped?
If it's adapting the Oni comic (which the previews make it look like it's doing) then yes. But there's a time skip that's a lame meta joke about how Zim went inactive for years and Dib sat around watching "old footage" of Zim's past schemes, waiting for him to return and turning into a fat loser in the process.
Samuel Lopez
He quoted it at half a million dollars, which would be possible to raise if another studio had a sincere interest in it and wanted to go into production with it (as Netflix and PUNY did when they bought Twelve Forever off of CN) - to cite an example from the modern industry CH Greenblatt has said Harvey Beaks cost Nick $600K per episode, so $500K for an entire IP isn't that ridiculous. But still, someone has to really want to actually make it first in order to justify buying the property.
Asher Torres
Evidently, Jhonen's not the best to work with, both in terms of personality and in competency (he never attended any sort of animation arts training/school before landing the Zim gig and didn't know how anything worked). He apparently acts like a 14 year-old Hot Topic kid trapped in a 40 year-old's body. Blocks windows with black paper because "rar I'm a vampire no sunlight", comes in dressed like the trenchcoat mafia, and apparently during voice auditions he'd sit on the floor in the middle of the room talking to himself and couldn't make eye contact.
I think his complete inability to produce ANYTHING successfully since Zim ended (17 years ago!) has less to do with bad luck and more to do with him just being an obnoxious sperg with no actual training in how to produce animation.
Isaiah Price
...Hmm, I guess it's still worth a watch.
But a too long time skip sound a bit too much.
And any chances of Tak coming back?
>I feel the presence of the spectral Poop Dog of defeat being summoned.
Tyler James
Not everybody went to Calart
Henry Scott
>And any chances of Tak coming back?
Someone asked Eric Trueheart (the writer for the comic) about Tak in an interview a couple years ago and he got super duper pissy about it.
>Eric: I will drop only this misty nugget of mystery:
>THERE ARE NO PLANS TO BRING BACK TAK, OKAY?! SO STOP ASKING!
>But for the sake of all the Tak fans out there, I will add that it’s only because Jhonen thinks Tak is a great character, and he doesn’t want to bring her back simply for the sake of doing it. If — or more probably, “when” — Tak returns, he wants it to be for a story that’s as cool as she is.
>I mean, hey, we could bring back Tak every four issues and turn her into the Lex Luthor of the Zim universe, but would you really want that? The answer is no, you would not. Aren’t you glad we know what you want better than you do? The answer is yes, you do. See how good this feels?
Landon Myers
Antonucci is a special case. Canada has its own animation industry infrastructure separate from the US landscape and politics. EE&E was made in Canada by Canadians and played by Canadian rules, so the CalArts thing really had no sway there.
Parker Gonzalez
That sounds like Jhonen when he originally worked on OG Zim. He's more mature now and even the voice actors mentioned this and said he grew up. Granted, now he sounds like a grumpy old man, but he's not as immature as he was before. Not only that, but like said, most of the projects he works on don't make it to the public.
Charles Rogers
Elijah Johnson
Owen Murphy
>mfw I was randomly watching porn stuff
>See a recommended video with a chick who looks like she has a JTHM tattoo on her back.
>Click the video.
>Find out she does have a JTHM tattoo on her back and the video is some lesbian roleplay about forcibly shampooing the girl's hair.
>mfw I have no face.
I find JV's work in the strangest of places.
Carter Wright
>flip up skirt
>pull panties down to knees
>go to town
Connor Howard
He's worked on plenty of things it's just nothing he was the showrunner/creator of.
Leo Ortiz
He did the character designs for Randy Cunningham and... hm. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Cooper Jackson
Tak's VA confirmed to have voiced in the movie, but if it's Tak or Tak's Ship is the question.
I think the movie is gonna be great, though apparently it's only an hour and 10 minutes long.
Easton Watson
Here's something that did make it
Wyatt Scott
I see Jhonen has got better at drawing girls since 2002 and much, much worse at drawing everything else.
William Lopez
Somebody else drew that April.
Dylan Edwards
Probably Tak's ship, since that's in the comics.
Angel Davis
So, this is just a telly special?
Christopher Parker
Originally, but apparently Nick now sold both of the Zim and Rocko movies to Netflix. Netflix announced they would air them this summer.
Ethan Martin
If TAK is such a cool character they should just make a spin-off series with her as a main character.
Grayson Cruz
I rewatch the Tak episode. Shit is practically a movie, it's also the same episode where Zim reveals to Gaz he is an alien. The reveal is so small, it goes completely unnoticed.
Evan Reed
It's a great episode and so underrated.
Adrian Cruz
>underrated.
Wot? It's consistently considered to be one of the best episodes of the series.
Anthony Roberts
Remember that episode where Zim gets vored?
Isaac Smith
I think Tak coming back would be more exciting than the movie adapting a bunch of comic one-shots, but I won't hold my breath.
Elijah Watson
I always wondered how those planned episodes and Invader Dib would have ended up. They sounded too story driven and grim to be completed like that, even back then.
Nathan Morgan
Gaz already found out in the Bloaty episode.
Nathan Reyes
Is Dib really Mexican?
Matthew Taylor
nah, Jhon just drew it better because she was going to be on stage for a short time, the same with Splinter
Aiden Morales
I wasn't aware Zim was in that episode. I'll have to rewatch it. But Bloaty right? Not the pig demon, because pig demon was already at the need of the show's run.
Jason Thomas
He's Mexican and Half-Irken.
Oliver Parker
>with no actual training in how to produce animation.
That shouldn't stop him from producing comics, but he went a decade between Filllerbunny and the Zim comic without anything new.
Levi Rodriguez
I want to date her more than anything.
Robert Bailey
Gaz always knew he was an alien, she just doesn't care.
Ayden Phillips
Jhonen Vasquez is a lot more settled and normal in his older age.
He's not the same "johnny Homicidal manic' edgey artist anymore
Andrew Sanchez
>That shouldn't stop him from producing comics, but he went a decade between Filllerbunny and the Zim comic without anything new.
Exactly. And he's practically royalty at Oni Press, too, considering they keep all of his comics in constant reprint status (save I Feel Sick, but apparently that's kept out of circulation at Jhonen's request). So he could easily have published anything he wanted to do, no questions asked, with Oni during that stretch of time.
But he didn't create anything.
Xavier Morgan
>I wasn't aware Zim was in that episode.
The whole plot of the episode is Gaz rescuing Dib from Zim's base because she didn't want to miss Family Dinner Night with Membrane.
Good episode.
Landon Howard
Okay, been awhile since I saw the show.
Josiah Carter
But he is the writer on it sometimes, at least early on. The first issue, the only one we know for sure is being adapted into the movie, was written entirely by him. The following issue that continues that story was co-written by him.
Nicholas Wood
Cameron Mitchell
Wait, I Feel Sick has been out of circulation? I didn't know that.
Luis Cox
>And he's practically royalty at Oni Press, too, considering they keep all of his comics in constant reprint status
You're thinking of Slave Labor Graphics, but yeah.
>(save I Feel Sick, but apparently that's kept out of circulation at Jhonen's request
Wait, what the fuck? Why? That comic was great.
Elijah Nguyen
Cute and Best Ship.
Ryder Stewart
He also worked on David Fincher's first attempt at a Heavy Metal anthology film
Sebastian Martinez
No, Bloaty x Sizz Lorr is the best and cutest ship.