How can you twist all the ridiculous lore, endless anticlimaxes, and nightmare Freudian conflicts involving Rusty, Hank, and Dean Venture (and all their assorted hangers on) into a satisfying end? The answer, it turns out, was Publick and Hammer doing what they’ve always done, just a bit more of it. With all that in mind, it’s difficult to know exactly what The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart needed to be. are men or boys or men who act like boys.) The Avengers band together to save the galaxy the Ventures are too busy selling their monstrous patriarch’s legacy for petty cash. (Nearly all the main characters of Venture Bros. Venture Bros., the apparently completed Adult Swim series that started life as a mean-spirited riff on Jonny Quest-style adventure-boy heroics before evolving into a nuanced, hilarious study of failure and capes, has always been more interested in the neuroses and petty grudges of its impressively deep ensemble than in delivering anything as conventionally appealing as “good guy punches bad guy.” Series creators and co-writers Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer understand, and appreciate, the appeal of a good old-fashioned costumed brawl, but the show’s genius lay in its ability to keep even the most outlandish plot twists grounded in the peevish insecurities of its leading men. But then, anyone looking for an epic conclusion is most likely watching the wrong show. Anyone looking for an epic conclusion from The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart should look elsewhere.
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