The Venture Brothers cartoon show/religion has been off the airwaves for a long time, with the last new episode airing on July 21, 2013. But the long drought is about to end, with an hourlong premiere for season six on January 19th, 2015 at midnight ET/PT. The Beat ran into co-creator Jackson Publick on one of his very, very rare forays out of his studio at New York Comic-Con, and he confirmed that he and Doc Hammer had been slaving away for the last two years.
And now the wait is over.
And just to tide you over those last few perilous weeks, Adult Swim is selling a sert of Venture Brother sheets.
Venture Brothers SHEETS. In 300-thread count comfort.
Tragically they are only available in QUEEN SIZE, which for NYC apartment dwellers who huddle entire families into tiny twin-sized bunk beds is a sad sad thing. Maybe we can just buy a set and make a dress out of them. The sheets go for a merer $50.
Whether you dream about Brock Samson, Molotov Cocktease or just seeing a new episode of the Venture Brothers, these sheets are sure to swaddle you to slumber.
UPDATE: Although the FAQ confirms that these sheets are 300 thread count, it is not known if they are 100% cotton or the dreaded “percale” polyester blend. The Beat only sleeps in 100% pure cotton, so this is troubling.
[We've been spotlighting the experiences of first time Comic-Con attendees, but what about the other side? What is Comic-Con like for the many celebrities who breeze on down for a walk-on role in the big panels? The Beat asked old chum actor James Urbaniak
for a diary of his trip down to Con this year. Urbaniak has appeared in such films as Henry Fool and Across the Universe, and TV shows from The Office to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and had a memorable role as R. Crumb in the American Splendor movie. He's best known of course, for voicing Dr. Rusty Venture in The Venture Bros, and he was down at Comic-Con to appear on the Venture panel. Here's how it went.]
By James Urbaniak
THURSDAY/FRIDAY:
I was planning to arrive at San Diego Thursday morning but I ended up getting a callback for one of my trademarked red herring characters on a crime procedural for Thursday afternoon. (Seriously, why do I still have to audition for these red herrings? But that’s another blog post.) So I ended up taking the train from Los Angeles Thursday night. I arrived around 11:00 pm. An Adult Swim party was in full swing but I was tired and carrying bags. Dr. Venture took a cab to his hotel.
I checked in and although I was by myself was given two keycards. Printed on one keycard was an ad for the new J.J. Abrams series “Person of Interest;” printed on the other was an ad for “Mortal Kombat: Legacy.” First time I’d ever seen ads on keycards. I’d gone straight to my hotel from the train station and the marketing had already begun. Welcome to Comic-Con.
Next morning I took one of the city’s free event shuttles to the Convention Center (I was staying about a 15-minute ride away.) I boarded behind a man and woman both wearing t-shirts for a horror movie called “Blood Fare” starring Gil Gerard (which presumably did not have the money to buy space on keycards.) The bus included the usual array of cosplayers. A noncostumed old guy got on at one point and jovially barked “We’ve got quite a cast of characters here!” He was right.
I headed to the Hilton next to the convention center for the Venture Brothers panel that morning. As I approached the hotel (which was draped with a giant poster for “Cowboys and Aliens”), a swarm of people were exiting. I recognized television’s Johnny Galecki among them. A man entering the hotel said in a matter-of-fact voice “It’s the entire crew of Big Bang Theory.” He was right too.
I was soon found by an Adult Swim liaison who took me to the green room where I ran into television’s Martin Starr (star of Adult Swim’s new NTSF:SD:SUV and a certified mensch). There was an array of eats and drinks in the green room. I asked Adult Swim bigwig Keith Crofford if the spread was for us. Sometimes more than one production company shares a green room at these things and they guard their food with proprietary intensity. I did not want to reach for a grape that I assumed had been put there by Adult Swim only to be sternly informed that it was property of NBC-Universal. But Keith said it was all ours. I snacked with a clear conscience.
Every year it always seems James is having the most fun!
Are you sure that Dorothy Michaels was a male? I ran after “her” to get a picture too and when she responded to my thank you, I could have sworn it was a woman.
Afterwards, I told my booth neighbor, “Is it weird that I’m disappointed Tootsie was a woman?”
Dorothy *was* a woman, but I’m so happy you thought I was a man – I spent the morning binding my breasts, then building them back up with a hilarious push-up bra; then put on my girdle and stuffed it, THEN did a whole bunch of shading on my face to look a little more Dustin-esque… so it was a multi-layered gender-bending cosplay! :)
Ha ha thanks for “coming out”! I was beginning to question myself… Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
That may have been us who didn’t get your signature right away! If so, it’s not that we didn’t want it, or even that we heard Doc Hammer (we didn’t), we were simply bewildered in the whirlwind of excitement, and thought you’d already signed it! It wasn’t until we got a few steps away that we looked down at our lunchbox, realized you hadn’t, and had to run back for yours too.
I loved the Venture Brothers panel, like every year, and saw James at the convention center on Saturday. Would have pestered him but was with my kids and they needed to leave right about then. Probably better that way. ;)
Haha Randy, you’re not the first; I have a history of confusing cosplays – last year in a hometown con (I’m from Australia) I was Wikus from District 9. I kept getting mistaken for my brother.
Oh wait, on closer read-through it totally wasn’t us. We were at the Entertainment Earth signing, not the Adult Swim booth one!
Clem: I like your costume even more now.