Axe Cop getting Animated series

Welp, looks like My Saturday night just shrunk. What to do after watching Space Dandy?

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Might I suggest Saturday Night Live?

I thought I read that Axe Cop might return sometime this summer, along with a new show called Stone Quackers that only bubbleblabber.com seemed to know anything about. At least the name of that show still has a placeholder on Fox Flash. Oh, and Fox Flash was where I found the full version of that interview with animated Axe Cop!

So, do you think "The American Choppers" will get any discussion in the comics thread?

If someone brings it up in the Axe Cop comic discussion, then yes.

Also, you guys remember Baby Man from "No More Bad Guys"?

The first time I heard him, I thought he was voiced by Steve Blum.

Oh yeah, does anyone think I should add the voice credits for the motion comics to our wiki's Characters page? I notice they said that Ethan Nicolle voiced Baby Man for his one line... along with Uni-Baby and the Vampire Man Baby Kid, so maybe he takes any character with "Baby" in the name.

Okay, while we wait for a real premiere date for new episodes... and for the webcomic's wiki page to stop being mysteriously locked... I've been digging up videos of Axe Cop animatics. You know, beyond this made-up movie trailer or some mock opening title from a long time ago. Apparently, one of the ways they selected artists to work on the show was to give them some sample scene to make a motion storyboard of. More than one person posted this scene not from the show where Axe Cop puts on his cat suit, bids farewell to his daytime team (Leaf Man among them), and explains to one of them why they can't go on a night mission with him but agrees to leave the door open a crack for Sockarang.

• Kurt Smith's version You should go see what else Kurt Smith has done!
• Daran Carlin-Weber's version Hey, beardless Sockarang! Includes part of another take with an alternate cat suit.
• Tyler DePerro's version This one adds an introduction and voice track!
• Eddy Chow's version ^note ...Oh wow. This is actually an entire goldmine. This Vimeo channel contains many early versions of actual Axe Cop episodes and other ADHD cartoons! For some reason the individual videos are private if you try to view them on their own pages, but you can still watch them on that channel listing. I wonder what they did with some of those other cartoons, like the Rutherford B. Hayes one... Oh, but the best thing is the full episode of "No More Bad Guys" with a completely different script! This is the version where Telescope Gun Cop gets passed over for The Wrestler in the tryouts to stop Psydrozon. This episode would have been where Axe Cop and Flute Cop met Uni-Baby, starting with rescuing her from the normal police with the escalation seen in Bad Guy Earth. Eventually enlarging rays and God get involved, I think, and Flute Cop's not the only one who gets dinosaur blood on him... It's only partial audio, and the copy on page 14 is missing some captions toward the beginning, while the one on page 13 is missing some captions toward the middle.

Here's another animatic scene: Apricot stand stake-out? I didn't see anyone post one of this but Carlos Ramos, but it seems this was another audition test, since I found the script here. Uh oh, some union griping?

And yet another scene that they appear to have taken submissions for is from the actual show, from the part of "An American Story" where Book Cop's parents protect the book, so it has finished audio. I wonder what the storyboard they actually used looked like?

• Frank Detrano's version
• Be Frank's version
• John Celestri's version
• Gabriel Peregrino's version
• Jason Andrew Cart's version
• Joseph Nate Lowe Henk's version
• Emi Yonemura Brown did one that's been taken off her blog now, but I [[rtsp://v7.cache5.googlevideo.com/Cho LE Ny73w Ia E Qm5o 421 M Trup BMYDSANF Eg DDA==/0/0/0/video.3gp scrounged a link]] from that Google cache that might work.

More test images from that episode? Same artist did a Golan the Insatiable storyboard too!

And I also seem to have found a design application test! Looks like they include a Flute Cop turnaround, Axe Cop action pose, frowning woman, and telescope gun.

• Kathryn Wilkins's versions
• Kurt Smith's versions
• Fernando A-A. Barrera II's versions
• Mark Hartman's versions, yeah I couldn't find a good gallery link

Some of Doug Olsen's storyboard panels for "Super Axe"

Some background art in different stages by John Walters

Ooh, and Marie Bower posted some animation that's mainly just missing the backgrounds! Matthew J. Simpson's animation reel had some bonus line animation of Wexter. Maricel Piazza posted this very short clip from "28 Days Before", and Jules Rivera posted a few short clips from "Zombie Island in Space", also just the line work, much like in that Vimeo channel I mentioned above in a note that's probably supposed to be a secret.

Oh and while searching for these, I found a similar storyboard test application for Rick and Morty for a scene where alien mercenaries burst into the house just as Rick was hinting at their arrival and handing out cloaking devices for the family's protection, and after the fight it's left to Morty and Summer to bury the bodies. As in another unused scene I saw, Rick left to watch Family Matters.

That Night Babies trailer was unbelievably disturbing

Maybe Ken Marino should do more narration.

But I still like the original introduction: "The night monsters live in space. Actually, they live ''on'' space."

edited 18th Aug '14 9:54:28 PM by BagofMagicFood

It's baaaaack...

I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.

Dost I detect an Animation Bump?

edited 14th Apr '15 6:29:21 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I squeed.

How many characters from the comic books can you name in that trailer?

Oh snap, there's a different version of the trailer on the Foxadhd account.

Strange how they removed Anita from the "bath time" scene in the other trailer.

edited 16th Apr '15 6:33:20 PM by BagofMagicFood

So that was the moon mission... This reminded me of someone on an old Axe Cop podcast who said that Vampire-Man-Baby-Kid got a bad rap, with everybody wanting to kill him for being "scary" when he only bit that one family that one time because he was probably just lost and scared from the transformation. Of course according to the comics, Axe Cop's ax wouldn't have worked on VMBK's neck anyway...

I already read quotes from some interview that explained why the Moon Warriors adaptation doesn't contain the Moon Warriors, but it's sad how vampires and werewolves are back to being enemies in this one, tearing a family apart, and dooming their world, leaving behind only their mutant orphan baby. However, it's just as well that they showed "super werewolves" if the motion comics showed a "super vampire" once!

That "upgrade" fight in the forest seemed like a pretty Axe Cop-style tangent, though. I don't know if the evil lumberjacks were based on any specific gang of evil lumberjacks from the comics, but they all looked like clones.

Hey, random cameo by Leaf Man in front of the poster for The Axe!

I thought the ending was cute. Having Flute cop being all fatherly to his kids.

Is it just me, or was the Evil Warden in the newest episode supposed to be Dr. Hieter? Kind of an odd reference for Axe Cop, but then again, they did an American Psycho one.

edited 24th Apr '15 6:49:39 AM by IHOP

Liked how in the end, Axe Cop just went back to cutting heads off prisoners, even after they're freed.

"We be we baby!"

I never saw that movie, but Google Image Search tells me you're probably right. I'm just glad that it didn't turn out more like that Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories episode about the cutting off toes. "It pays to think a-head!"

So right off the bat we hear a sentence that sounds like some bad editing. I saw Junior Cobbb in the previews, so will the Goo-rilla still be connected to him and Goo Man? Axe Cop's portal gun also gives away that this was surely intended to air in 2014. How many different types of uniforms do normal cops have, anyway?

Ooh hey, Jack & John got their very own movie!

I spotted a couple of bad guys from future episodes at the auction, but what's troubling is that many others were the main bad guys of previous episodes, back from the dead. And did Axe Cop steal the identity of this Dr. Doom-looking guy he killed with a flower? Let's ask the ADHD mug

The Hell Chicken episode was one of the best of this season so far (though we're only on episode 3, admittedly). Also, I think those bad guys Axe Cop takes to Secret Town were the Sun Thieves, or at least voiced by the same actors. Though, if any series can justify "past villains randomly coming back from the dead for no explained reason," Axe Cop would be it.

Speaking of that, and I'm surprised Malachai or the show's writers have never brought this idea up, but I could easily see Axe Cop doing something to bring every bad guy he's ever killed back to life just so he can kill them again.

I do wish they had used Hell Chicken's actual embarrassing secret from the comics. It was a huge missed opportunity.

Why didn't they get Ron Perlman to voice him?

I dunno.

Also, when Axe Cop summoned the robot in his brain, I totally thought of FLCL.

Anyone else thought that?

The robot also looked kinda like an EVA unit. Apparently, someone in the crew was a fan of Studio Gainax and wanted to pay tribute or something.

edited 3rd May '15 8:28:24 AM by TargetmasterJoe

What about all the love for Major Lazar?

"We be we baby!"

Yeah, even though the plot wasn't too random to add up, it seemed to be throwing us a lot of neat ideas, ideas that were mainly variants of things from the comics to mess with the heads of longtime readers. Like it was odd that Hell Chicken was a bad guy, but maybe that's the kind of thing that works as a little preview before you see how things are in the original comics, and they needed to mix in a chicken uprising to keep their hell zombie apocalypse scenarios fresh, right? That was kind of funny that amputating a sock was so dramatic, but then nobody cared that their heads were swapped—and bad time to call for Liborg, with that gun he never uses, haha. And you can enjoy whatever old anime references you saw, but I think Ethan Nicolle's robot designs have more character. ...Hmm, I wonder if Ultimate Man was behind the scenes of this episode, if that's not just a title for Axe Cop now.

Say, wasn't Norman Reedus supposed to play the creepy warden? There was that old piece of news going around all the entertainment websites, but then I didn't see his name in the credits, so did he get cut out of the role, or is he going to play a new warden in a later episode? I did manage to learn that the music the warden listened to was the Flower Duet from the first act of Lakmé by Leo Delibes, though, as well as that "Heads Will Roll" also seems to be the title of a Walking Dead or Under The Dome episode. And how many characters is Jonathan Banks going to voice now?

Now the King of All Time is getting in on the adopting just any character to tie everything together craze! It's as if setting up way too much stuff to pay off well is the joke now, but they made it all fit. Did you see that guy with the Magikarp head? Watch out for the Jaubbers!

I kind of want an Axe cop/Major Lazer/Lucas Bros. crossover special just to have something that's truly original and doesn't follow the comic. Just some amazingly stupid original ideas.

"We be we baby!"

That's a great idea, but could they make a 3-way crossover work in 11 minutes?