The Venture Brothers was a unique, one of a kind show. The fact that it took nerd pop culture- superhero comics, cartoons, pulp sci fi and fantasy, spy stories, ect.- and turned it into a story about failure is brilliant. The Venture Brothers is like the Sopranos in that it tells a story of America's decline and the ascent of its fail children, but using the images of the unrealized dreams of the Space Age and the visions of our future that never came to pass to do so. And it started before superhero films became the totally culturally dominant entertainment franchises that they are now, so it's kind of prescient that they used our stupid nerd bullshit to tell a story of cultural decline.
The Venture Brothers was a unique, one of a kind show. The fact that it took nerd pop culture- superhero comics, cartoons, pulp sci fi and fantasy, spy stories, ect.- and turned it into a story about failure is brilliant. The Venture Brothers is like the Sopranos in that it tells a story of America's decline and the ascent of its fail children, but using the images of the unrealized dreams of the Space Age and the visions of our future that never came to pass to do so. And it started before superhero films became the totally culturally dominant entertainment franchises that they are now, so it's kind of prescient that they used our stupid nerd bullshit to tell a story of cultural decline.