Genndy Tartakovsky Returns to Cartoon Network and Awesomeness with Sym-Bionic Titan
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I’ve heard some good thing about the new CG Clone Wars cartoon, once it got to TV and moved past the generally awful movie. I’m willing to believe it. But I also believe that it’s not 1/10th as good as Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars cartoon, which was pure awesomness in animated form. Frankly, I think Tartakovsky can do wrong, so now that I know he’s making a new series, I’m as excited about that as I am anything. From Wired:
Cartoon Network is bringing animator/director Genndy Tartakovsky back to prime-time television with a new sci-fi series called Sym-Bionic Titan. The show, one of several announced Wednesday as part of Cartoon
Network’s dramatically expanded development slate, will focus on three
extraterrestrials from the war-torn planet Galaluna who crash-land,
only to be swept up in high school and the fate of the Earth as we know
it.
The premise is basic, but the promo art has a giant cyborg/robot/thing beating up a massive dinosaur, and I’m wetting my pants in anticipation. At least, I hope that’s anticipation. Maybe I should see a doctor.
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