#jon schnepp

[dethkomic]

On Army of the Doomstar Day - And Remembering Jon Schnepp

Hey Goofballs. I didn't really have anything like this planned until the moment hit me, spontaneously. Today's a very special day, as Dethklok the live band gears up to go on tour, we've been blessed with not only a new Dethalbum, but a conclusion to the whole series. This being a momentous finale, over a decade in the making, I again wanted to take a minute to remember someone, just as I did last year..

Jon Schnepp was a guy you could pick out, even if it weren't for the fact that he was usually the tallest dude in any given crowd. He loved comics, music, good vegetarian food that didn't suck, and loved meeting his sweaty nerd fans. As a comic book artist myself, I had the rare privilege of meeting Jon on several occasions through the years at various comic conventions. We also kept in touch on social media, leaving likes and words of praise on each other's projects. Genuine to a fault, Jon was always the biggest fan of anything his friends were doing. He had impeccable comedic timing too. I'll never forget the message he sent me on Facebook when friends and I attended the first ever 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise:

"I want to go... :("

For as big a Metalocalypse fan as I've been through the years, Jon absolutely eclipsed me in all ways. He loved the show, loved talking about the show, loved discussing production and animation and the characters, whose likenesses he himself designed. One of my prized possessions is a comic book Jon signed and drew a Murderface on the inside frontispiece of. We all agreed that triangle-hair was the pinnacle of good character art.

When he died in 2018, I remember he was either going to be at, or had recently attended a convention in my former hometown of Columbus, Ohio. I remember letting him know I wasn't going to be able to make it, but promising to catch him on the next one. I never got the chance.

Jon Schnepp left behind a hole in the cartoon and comic industry that has yet to be filled to this day. But he also leaves a hell of a legacy. I've been in comics since the early 2000's and one thing I can guarantee you readers is that the rarest thing in the entertainment industry is this: Getting the ability to see a story through to its conclusion.

As artists, it's a sad fact that we don't always get to see what we create come full-circle. We're extra-super lucky still, to have that circle continue on after we're gone. Regardless of what you believe, I bet it would do Jon proud to know his work lives on, today. I bet he'd love the movie and it's wild animation and incredible art and music and story. I bet he'd be happy to have that closure. I know he'd love hearing how much we all enjoyed it, knowing the wild ride we all took to get here.

Jon, we miss you, man. Brendon, Tommy, writers, artists, animators, and any and all sweaty nerds reading this -- you did it. We the fans love you and we'll see you on the road. Hold your heads high. You carried the torch across that finish line.

We'll take it from here.

#dethkomic speaks #metalocalypse #dethklok #mtl #army of the doomstar #metalocalypse movie #jon schnepp #in remembrance

[infinitepunches]

CGI Nicolas Cage fighting a spider was the only good part of the movie.

RIP Jon Schnepp.

#thanagarian snare beast #the flash spoilers #nicolas cage #nic cage #superman lives #the death of superman lives #jon schnepp #anti ezra miller

[animusrox]

The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? (2015) dir. Jon Schnepp

#the death of superman lives what happened? #supermanedit #superman #superman lives #nicolas cage #nic cage #niccageedit #filmedit #filmgifs #doyouevenfilm #fyeahmovies #moviegifs #cinemapix #dailyflicks #chewieblog #usergal #usergilli #userlily #kane52630 #gifs #movie

[adultswim2021]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force #83: "The Creature From the Plaque Lagoon" | April 26, 2009 - 11:45PM | S07E05

Shake is trying to smash Meatwad’s one tooth out with a golf club. After various mishaps and some on-purpose gratuitous hitting, he finally gets the dang thing out of there. They want to make a “nice buck” from the Tooth Fairy. Shake intends to ambush her, thinking it’ll lead to riches and bitches. But “we got the fry man over here” indeed, Frylock simply walks in and conks out Shake with a dart, for there is no tooth fairy, only Frylock. 

A TWIST! A shadowy figure clobbers Frylock and makes off with not just Meatwad’s tooth, but also his mom and dad’s teeth. They search for the culprit fruitlessly, only determining that he’s the Creature from the Plaque Lagoon. They find his website, which has a scary flash intro Meatwad demands they skip. Eventually they run into Gary the Dairy Fairy, who shows up to promote the calcium content of your favorite dairy products. He knows where to find the Creature, but when they do he reveals that he didn’t actually do it, and that his identity was being stolen. Uh, I’ll spare you the flowery prose: it turns out it’s the guy from Dickesode but now he’s a tooth and the episode ends with Shake eating hotwings out of a blender.

It always seemed a little odd to me that they made a sequel to DIckesode and changed dicks to teeth. It seems like a less-extreme version of the previous episode would result in diminishing returns. I guess it did, but this episode was much funnier than I remembered. Meatwad asking Shake to tell him a story over the walkie talkie! The Newhart references! Shake talking about gripping on Days of Thunder, which I am accepting as canon. I believe him, this time. There’s also some good new guys in this. Gary the Dairy Fairy is voiced by Jon Schnepp, an artist who worked on Aqua Teen and Metalocalypse. He was also the voice of C. Ling Tile on Space Ghost and one of them Wisdom Cubes. He also died in 2018. RIP to a proper legend. 

The episode sorta peters out, but that’s okay. It was a fun time hanging out with my friends (Milkshake cup, French Fries, and Meatwd).

MAIL BAG

A tidbit I just remembered about the last Xavier: there's a joke in that about a room of mental patients who think they're Mohammed and they're all blurred out. When that aired on TV, the word Mohammed got bleeped. I think I accurately guessed what the joke was before I actually saw it uncensored on DVD. Why don't you use me for your next event?

I somehow don't remember this joke even though I try very hard to commit Xavier episodes to memory, completely. Damn. It really do be like that, though. It's a shame about the whole Mohammed thing back around this time, bombing stuff for disrespecting your religion is just too funny

According to a 2017 bumper they mention that "S&P unintentionally punched up the show by censoring lines like “Jesus, save me” which became “Jesus, BLEEEP me.”" That's probably what it was. They also mention that the lead who plays Jesus was super allergic to the hay on the set.

Now this I did not know. If you are trolling me right now, just know that you are loathsome and will never see heaven. But I like that you read my blog, so that's all water under my bridge. I assumed he was saying "Jesus Save Me", but I recalled both "save" and "me" being bleeped, so idk what to think. They shouldn't bleep Bill Tush. There should be a rule that he can say whatever he wants on TV and it's uncensored always. Even slurs

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #aqua teen hunger force

[forgiveness-in-the-misery]

Read an old interview with Jon Schnepp where he said he focused the most on Pickles design and making him look pretty and giving him this punk boy look, he never said Sid Vicious but the flashes we get of Pickles as a teen with his messy spiky hair and leather jacket that was my thought and it would be a good idea to base him off the pretty boy of punk. But that Brendon and Tommy had totally different ideas on how they should all look because Jon made the others more so look like thugs and not really pretty, but even with the changes he did with Pickles he ended up settling on making him pretty but just giving him his dreadlocks.

I just really love I always think Pickles is super pretty especially like the shape and color of his eyes and it’s neat knowing he was indeed created to be a pretty boy punk.

#metalocalypse

[sichore]

Idk something just clicked after seeing that reddit post about a convention meeting with Jon Schnepp and how Pickles design idea was "very attractive man with the worst hairstyle ever". Because why tf else would I be thinking this much about the most disaster whyte man. This bitch smacks of gender and a lot of the same issues I still have as an adult. I guess.

#id elaborate but i work full time lmakdkskkand

[fearsmagazine]

THE VENTURE BROS.: THE COMPLETE SERIES - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

SYNOPSIS: Twenty years in the making, one of the iconic pillars of Adult Swim, THE VENTURE BROS., comes to DVD and digital in a box set that includes the seven year run of the show, all 82 episodes (14 discs), plus every single piece of previously released special features.

REVIEW: Full disclosure, I have not gone through everything. I only got the package on Friday and there is just so much, and that’s just the episodes. What I have watched so far is a real “Wow!”

The series premiered twenty years ago in 2003. It was the year my daughter was born and it was one of the late night shows on Adult Swim that kept me company. It was a delight to go back and rewatch the early episodes, especially on a big screen TV with surround sound. Oh, and no commercial breaks. Twenty years may not be a lot of time, but the writing still stands the test of time. From the writing and the music, to the design of the series, THE VENTURE BROS. pays homage to many of the adventure animated series we grew up with in our youth but takes to a whole other level, an adult comedy level. Watching these episodes again was like a trip down memory lane and there were quite a few things I had missed and made me appreciate the writing even more.

I popped in all the DVDs to view the menus and see the list of extras. No wonder they didn’t list the special features in the press release because there are a lot of them. I had never watched any of them before so I took in a few. They were well made, entertaining and informative. As a fan of the show I enjoyed the insight they added to the viewing experience.

Regardless of your level of fandom with the show, THE VENTURE BROS.: THE COMPLETE SERIES is a nice package that provides hours of viewing pleasure for you to get reacquainted with an old friend. Regardless of the nostalgia, it is the writing that made the series a hit. Some of the episodes were saterial of the period they were written in, but the style is such that it remains timeless and the humor fresh.

The 14-disc box set has a combined runtime of 1,968 minutes.

The TV series was canceled in 2020, with the final season aired in 2018, but The Venture Bros. swan song is coming with the film The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart and will be available Digitally on July 21st and on Blu-ray Disc on July 25th, 2023.

CAST (voices): James Urbaniak, Christopher McCulloch, Michael Sinterniklaas, Patrick Warburton, Paul Boocock, Doc Hammer; plus a cast of hundreds over the 82 episodes. CREW: Creator/Director/Writer - Christopher McCulloch; Directors - Jon Schnepp, Ki-Yong Bai, Juno John Lee, Barry J. Kelly, & Ethan Marak; Writers - Doc Hammer & Ben Edlund; Series Composer - J.G. Thirlwell; OFFICIAL: www.adultswim.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/adultswim/ TWITTER: twitter.com/adultswim TRAILER: www.youtube.com/@adultswim for lots of clips and the show opening credit sequence. RELEASE DATE: Digitally and on DVD June 13, 2023

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)

Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

#dvd news #dvd review #VentureBros #complete series #Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment #adult swim #joseph b mauceri #joseph mauceri #Christopher McCulloch

[waitingforseason5]

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#metalocalypse #pickles the drummer #dethklok #adult swim #chris prynoski #Jon Schnepp #More cursed content

[davidegenco]

Well, I watched this documentary about the aborted Tim Burton’s version of Superman and I wondered how would Nic Cage have looked like as a weird Kal El.

#dc comics #Superman #man of steel #superman lives #Superman reborn #lerecedeifilmchevedo #comics #nicolas cage #humour #tim burton #cinecomics #the death of Superman lives #Jon schnepp #nic cage #meme #nic cage meme #con air

[dethkomic]

The End

Well gang... Here we are. The end of an era!

Okay, so, maybe not that. But certainly the end of a dethkomic. For now, hehe.

I want you guys to know something. I want those of you who have only been with the fandom for a little while to know someone.

That's me... a younger me... in front of my artist alley table at NYCC in 2013. The Klokateer on the left is my friend, Holkie.

Her real name was Holly, and she was a New York native who braved the ridiculous train and subway systems that day (It was Saturday, so things were nuts) just to come out and meet a random person she met through the Metalocalypse fandom. I was surprised and delighted to see her for the first time, live and in person. I gave her some of my werewolf comics, we talked MTL, and generally had a good time. Unfortunately, that was both the first and last time we'd ever see one another in the flesh.

Holkie died in late 2020, just a few months before the Metalocalypse movie was announced. It's a shame she isn't still here to see the show conclude. But I'm willing to go on record and say without her, and her dedication and genuine hard work as a fan, we might not be getting a movie otherwise. She ran the original Dethklok Minute on Livejournal and continued that work here on Tumblr for a time. It kept us fans up-to-date and looking forward to more Dethklok in a time when news about the show was hard to come by, and interest threatened to wane in-between seasons(that's just how it is when you're a fan of an animated series). I know wherever she is, if there's any justice to be had in this life and whatever happens after, she's somewhere biding her time before the premiere with my other friend (and yours) Jon Schnepp. And in the great hereafter, the two of them will have front-row seats in a theatre with a kickass surround sound system. And there'll be a 3D IMAX option. And Dorito dispensers. And candy snake tits. Whatever they are.

I thought a lot about Hokie when I wrapped this comic. I got emotional more than a little when I was writing the eulogy given by her own Klokateer OC, Janet. You might guess that Janet's speech had as much to do with Cherry as it did Holkie, and you'd be right about that. But more so, I wanted it to be a statement to all of us.

When you have a fandom like ours -- a bunch of people who believe in a little cartoon show about heavy metal idiot-gods that hasn't had the ability/huge budget of other shows to churn out official content on a regular basis... and in spite of that -- in spite of apparent cancellation, even -- it still manages to come up with a great storyline, memorable characters, and captures the imaginations of talented masses like yourselves who have managed to make some of the most compelling fan-content on the internet for over a decade, now... It defies probability. And in our case, it defies being cancelled without a resolution.

I think that's something quite special. And it's worth celebrating.

Today is Halloween here in the USA. In our fandom, it's also the last day of Kloktober 2022. To me, this has always been a special time of year -- and I sometimes feel, even more than January 1st, it's a time of celebration for what has come to pass. It's a time of reflection and looking back. It's a time of looking forward to what will be. I can think of no better time to say thank you to each and every one of you dethkomic readers out there, for making this a kickass year. Thank you all -- my MTL friends from the internet, casuals who lurk in our fandom, people who are or who have worked on the show, and everyone in general, for keeping the faith. Thanks for keeping the torch burning.

Holkie, wherever you are, we hope we're doing you proud. This comic has been dedicated to you. And I really miss you. We all do.

Here's to the end. Here's to what's to come. Here's to you all.

Remember... Dethkomic loves you.

#the end #for now #dethkomic future #dethkomic past #dethklok #metalocalypse #mtl #mtl oc #kloktober2022

[dethklokarchive]

Jon Schnepp posing in front of a promotional billboard for Metalocalypse, 2008. (x) (x) (x)

#metalocalypse #dethklok #Jon Schnepp #promotional

[moviemosaics]

The ABCs of Death

directed by various directors, 2012

#The ABCs of Death #Adam Wingard #Simon Barrett #Nacho Vigalondo #Timo Tjahanto #Xavier Gens #Yudai Yamaguchi #Ben Wheatley #Simon Rumley #Jason Eisener #Kaare Andrews #Lee Hardcastle #Thomas Malling #Jake West #Marcel Sarmiento #Yoshihiro Nishimura #Jon Schnepp

[thesylverlining]

So... got something pretty special for you guys tonight.

You might have heard me yelling a while ago about The Dethzine, a Metalocalypse fanzine.

Well, these two pieces of mine, illustrating the incredibly metal Brendon Small’s 8-minute epic, The Ocean Galaktik (and my theory about what would have happened to General Crozier!) are going to be a spread in said fanzine, and I am more freaking excited than I can even tell you. This thing got me painting again. For that alone, it’s important.

But it’s much more than that. The Dethzine - official blog over here @thedethzine​ - is an incredible collection of 35+ artists and writers, all making amazing art dedicated to this badass, hilarious, beautiful show that we still remember, love, and haven’t given up on. I don’t even care if it’s silly to say, or how it sounds; Metalocalypse was incredibly formative for me as a young teen/artist/creator. At its core, it’s a beautiful story about creation, found family, and powerful music, all tied up in a nonsense, ridiculous douchebag wrapper.

It’s important to me. It’s important to a lot of us. It made my life better, it made me feel braver, and I’m honestly trying not to cry writing this (because that’s not very metal), because we’re not only donating almost all the proceeds to humanitarian aid charity Direct Relief, but, sadly, the family of director Jon Schnepp, who recently suffered a fatal stroke. 

We meant for this to be a memorial tribute to a beloved TV show, and it ended up being one for him as well. Nothing can begin to make up for that loss, but I sincerely hope that this can be tangible proof of the lasting impact the show he helped create, and how our lives are better and more metal for having our faces melted by its awesomeness, and our hearts face-fisted by its brutality.

You can pre-order the zine, both PDF and physical, here on Gumroad

Or check out its official site for extras (stickers!) and more cool stuff!

Thank you for reading, and I hope this looks like something you’ll enjoy.

...But there’s no freaking way you’ll enjoy it as much as I loved being part of it. Rock the fuck on. <3

(Lastly, because tumblr IS DEFINITELY hiding this post because it has outside links, reblogging is incredibly appreciated. Thank you.)

#metalocalypse #dethklok #the dethzine #dethzine #Jon Schnepp #long post #sylver draws things

[wwprice1]

Very classy tribute to Jon Schnepp by Henry Cavill.

#henry cavill #jon schnepp #rip jon schnepp #superman #man of steel #sdcc #sdcc2018

[toxictuga]

A hero to the community.

GODSPEED 

#jon schnepp

[annabcth]

oh fucking hell i love jon schnepp so much

one of the brightest hearts i’ve ever seen in the fandom community

i’m so heartbroken

#jon schnepp #collider #:(((((((((((( #i can't believe it #me for ts