Agreed, though it's more wb than dc. If warner brothers always wants batman and nothing else out of the dc brand why just sell all the films and television rights like Green Lantern and Superman to studios who maybe wants to make a proper film or series to these characters 🤔
A blonde man who is the last human of his world, forced to live in a world with strange beings and one of his friends is a dog... Are we sure Kamandi wasn't the inspiration for Adventure Time? Ironically this series sounds pretty fun. Kamandi's world deserves to be explored more in other mediums
Damnn I never compared the two but you make a good point, Adventure Time does have some similarities with Kamandi. Just another reason why it''s such a goated show
Kamandi is such a classic figure. The recent DC animated films have included him into the universe, along with sgt. Rock, the losers, phantom stranger and death
The Great Disaster titles weren't part of the Fourth World. In fact, Kamandi, OMAC, and The Demon, are the books DC cancelled New Gods and Forever People in order to make Kirby do, were the opposite of Fourth World. He did them because he was under exclusive contract and couldn't work anywhere else in the comics industry. On top of that, he legally had to produce at least 62 comic pages a month or he would not be paid. So, he did them just long enough to ride out his contract with no particular love for the characters and concepts. I think it shows in the quality of the work. The creation of these titles, and the failure of the books he did in the year following upon his return to Marvel, led to him going into animation up until his death.
I'm glad it didn't come out , it would have had pure sh*t animation like Teen Titan go ,not unless they could get the animators from Venture Brothers , but would have liked too seen a Kamandi action series with Jack Kirby art style , a adult swim Plastic Man Ren & Stimpy art and comedy could have worked better
I’d love to see the version of this in showcased in the short, or something similar to Thundarr The Barbarian. The sexually-repressed comedy version I can do without.
I don't know if the full on comedy approach would work seeing as how Kamandi is a very dramatic series focused on action, characters, and world-building. But I do love me some Dorkin so it would have been interesting nontheless. And yes I do agree, Wildcat should not take on Darkseid, total mismatch lol.
I think in my opinion it could work if au Adult swim used a comedic/joke character like maybe ambush bug or condimint king since adult swim mostly tackles with comedy
Kamandi is one of my favorite obscure characters in DC and I'd love to see him get a proper adaptation. Yes, there is his appearances in episodes of "Batman: the brave and the bold", but in that he was a guest character, I'm talking about an adaptation of his series on it's own.
Fun fact: Evan Dorkin was part of the Cancel mob that drove “Comics Kayfabe”’s Ed Piskor to k/ll himself. He was specifically named in Piskor’s suicide note.
@@kanesmith8271pretty much wasn't adventure time based on a nuclear post apocalypse ? Yeah I wouldn't mind watching this , but the cartoon art probably would have sucked , rather see an action animation of this series
@@joezar33 That's what Kirby & Steve Gerber did way back with Thundarr the Barbarian, but of course the limited animation sucked in those days and censorship butchered the stories ..
Kamandi Is an amazing character that is very underrated if he ever Gets his own series It Needs to be taken seriously No Comedy Just PTSD survival instincts And maybe come Christianity themes
Great stuff! I remember when the DC Nation Kamandi short was anounced for "Justice Society: World War 2", and I so super hyped because my man Cameron Monaghan (aka Jérôme/Jeremiah Valeska from the show *Gotham* , which I'm a big fan of, and also voiced Superboy in the movie "Reign of the Supermen") was cast to voice Kamandi himself \o/ With Steve Blum and Armen Taylor also cast for the short, I had high hopes for it, and between the movie JS:WW2 being one of my favorite Tomorrowverse movies, and the DC Nation short: "Kamandi, the Last boy on Earth" being pretty damn good too, that was a good time to be a DC fanboy. I was a bit bummed when Kamandi came back to the Tommorowverse a couple years later for "Crisis on Infinite Earths" parts 2&3, and Cameron Monaghan didn't voice him... but hey, he was instead voiced by Terry McGinnis from *Batman Beyond* himself, Will Friedle, so I wasn't too outraged either. I guess Cameron Monaghan was busy between playing Ian Gallagher in "Shameless" and Carl Kestis in the Star Wars video games (haven't played them frankly, my Star Wars phase is kinda over, but I'm real happy for Mr Monaghan since it's obviously a big opportunity for him), and since Will Friedle was already voicing Terry in the movie, he also voiced Kamandi while he was there. Anyway, if they bring Kamandi back in the new DC animated movies that will follow the Tomorrowverse, I hope Cameron Monaghan will be available.. Anyway, cheers from France, keep up the good work! Can't believe your "top 10 DC Nation shorts" video was released 8 years ago (O_o) Time flies, and you've made so many good stuff since then, you're one of the very few channels who make videos about DC projects in which I _actually_ learn new stuff, so, merci beaucoup mon ami!
I had no idea Cameron Monaghan voiced Kamandi in the Showcase short, that's so cool! He's a really great actor. And man, I was fresh out of high school when I made that video, didn't realize it's been 8 years lmao. Thank you for supporting the channel, I sincerely appreciate it and I'm glad that you enjoy watching videos on more obscure characters, I feel like it's kind of my duty to document the lesser known projects based on smaller characters so that they don't end up forgotten, dudes like Kamandi and Deadman deserve to be remembered lol
It's interesting to me that Kamandi could've been an Adult Swim show seeing as there's similarities between not only it and Primal, but another Jack Kirby creation by the name of Moonboy and Devil Dinosaur, the original comics by him not the follow up series with the different protagonist and setting. Edit: 2:11 YOOO, EVAN DORKIN MENTION, LOVE THAT GUY.
But Friend Adult Swim Has a DC Adult Animation show down the Pipeline Get Jiro! based on the DC Vertigo graphic novel by Anthony Bourdain just got the series order too
I think the ideal comic to do for Adult Swim would be to adapt the Giffen/DeMatteis era Justice League. Though I think any hope of getting any animated adaptation of that died with Keith Giffen. (J.M. DeMatteis attempted to get it rostered as a DC Direct animated movie several times but was always turned down.)
@@SantiBarrios Alas, with Keith Giffen's passing J.M. DeMatteis has said that if he is never asked to write another Justice League story, he's okay with that. He's not really sure if he could anyway.
@@Sonicman4155 I think LITERAL Community style... since if he hadn't already played Sylvester Pinkerton on Stargirl, I would suggest Joel McHale as Guy.
The IKEA part reminds me of SCP-3008, particularly Confinement's interpretation of the tribes living there being named after IKEA products. Of course, I hope it didn't use body horror as tasteless humor
The reason that Adult Swim wouldn't pick it up because they already said it's an action show. Those typically cost a lot of money to produce. They are pretty open that budget quite small. They canceled both Venture Bros and Black Dynamite because both of them are expensive to produce.
They did a short of kumandi for dc, I think it was in one of their animated movie. It was crazy cool, and so we're a couple other shorts. One was a WW2 story that was amazing. It was basically gi joe vs dinosaurs. I'm 80 percent sure jack Kirby did the original comic. I really hope some of those things could get the adult swim treatment. Shit what was that movie called....just found it. It's called dc showcase presents
@kaptainchewy1115 , not sure about the short movies featuring Kamandi, but I first learned about him watching #BatmantheBraveandtheBold .... He appears in 4 or 5 episodes, I believe. 🤓👍
I'm getting Spider-Man Unlimited vibes from Kamandi, quite honestly. I am very intrigued and hope DC does something with this character and the world because it has a lot of potential.
Like almost everything Kirby did post Fourth World, the potential is there but his heart wasn't in it. It fails to live up to that potential. Even a quarter of the 4th World stuff doesn't really. Mostly since he abandoned writing Jimmy Olsen early on. Funny, as much as he supposedly HATED the Marvel/Stan Lee method of writing comics, that's exactly what he did on Jimmy Olsen shortly after he started on it. He wrote a plot out with one of his assistants. He drew the story... and then one or more of his assistants would write the script. (Some of that happened because DC was fine with Kirby going Kirby on Kirby creations. But wanted the DC house style on characters like Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, etc. They brought in Curt Swan to 'fix' Kirby's art. Hence, after a while you mostly only see Jimmy and Perry White during the 4th World era.)
Hello @Santi Barrios sorry for the late reply but I forgot to tell you something about the video. I think that Seth Green would have the voice for Kamandi what do you think.
I'd seriously love to see an animated series of Kamandi. It'll make such a great storytelling, about a boy who's the last of his kind.just think about the crazy and intense journey he had to go through in this intense apocalyptic world, ruled by animal people.
The premise for the show sounds like it would've pretty much been Beavis & Butthead: At Earth's End. It probably would've been alright & funny for a while, but I'd prefer a more serious take on Kamandi. It shouldn't be completely serious & dour; it should have some humor but take its world seriously. Something like Samurai Jack, where the character has his main goal he's trying to accomplish, but each episode is a self-contained adventure he has on his journey.
Interesting video, but you barely touched on Kamandi's adventures on the animated series #BatmantheBraveandtheBold .... He appears in 4 or 5 episodes so wasn't that also important or was it that it didn't have the edge of the proposed Adult Swim version? I would have been happy to see Kamandi get a series by the same Brave and Bold team. Wonder Woman also deserved her own series, based on the popular WWII short. 🤓👍
You're completely right, I only realized after I had recorded and nearly finished the video, my mistake. I wasn't really familiar with their work prior to working on this video, but both Sarah Dyer and Evan Dorkin have made some great comics.
Of course it was a comedy/parody. That’s all they make anymore. It could have been a trippy sci fi adventure series. Instead it would have been shitty venture bros.
No, thanks. "Struggling to get laid to never having it happen " It gets frickin old. Glad Kamandi was rejected. Finn the Human in Adventure Time is Kamandi enough for Cartoon Network.
For me personally it would depend on the execution. If he is supposed to be a teen boy, especially under the circumstances, how could trying to find a girl friend not be a major focus of his concern? Ideally it should, and it seemed it would, also focus on his other needs and missions. And it would be almost like a macguffin most of the time, with the show not literally being _about_ that which would certainly be lame and monotonous. Other stuff would certainly have to end up being the focus of the adventure. Again, I could write an adventure serial about a guy looking for the Hope Diamond that would end up having almost nothing to do with the Hope Diamond all the time. Anyway to me the details of this world seem very exciting and promising and with a lot of potential to be quite original.
they should have pitched it at the first rejection as its an adult take of adventure time. adventure time was a very child friendly take of kamandi. i saw that when it came out. and it has that girl crazy take. and adventure time was a banger
I have all 59 issues of kamandi, along with the reprint special from 10 or so years back that printed the shelfed 60th and issues It was just finding a new direction after Kirby, and should have been given another chance.
I think it would have been a good show I mean Harley Quinn got her own show and it had both comedy and action and a bit of drama. Also hi @Santi Barrios how are you sorry for not replying in your other videos.
Harley Quinn really paved the way for all the adult comic book shows we've seen the last few years. And thank you!! I really appreciate that you keep enjoying the videos :)
In a lot of ways we got it through a spiritual successor to Kamandi with Adventure Time. Think about it... After the a cataclysmic event leading to the post apocalypse... The Mushroom War/ The Great Disaster Humanity has been limited and reduced to a primitive state... Humans of Ooh/ Humans of Earth-AD A boy and his talking dog companion... Finn & Jake / Kamdi & Doctor Canus Go on adventures across the post apocalyptic waste land...Land of Ooh / Earth-AD Along the way they encounter incredible seemingly magic technologies wielded by insane villains... Ice King / The Misfit And domains, kingdoms and territories have been established by multiple great powers across the globe... Candy Kingdom, Ice Kingdom / Ape Kingdom, Tiger Empire Even tonally balancing comedy and drama. Adventure Time and Kamandi are both ripe for the whimsy of the post apocalyptic Jungle Book by way of the coming of age that comes with being a teen. It sure would be cool for Kamandi to get a bit more traction because its so overlooked. Honestly a video game it could be awesome and a lot of fun. Combine Legend of Zelda Echoes of the Kingdom art direction and some game play by way of Final Fantasy Tactics A2 class, party and recruitment system. You can end up with something pretty cool.
DC would truly be able to compete with Disney/Marvel if they would just let these awesome projects be released. They have more potentially awesome projects scrapped than they have successful releases 👎
Yuck. Kamandi was a great comic and this comedic take could only have crapped all over it. Write something new if you think you have an idea, but dragging down another person’s creation because you are creatively empty is just cheap.
I'm really inclined to disagree with this, especially when we're talking about Evan Dorkin. His sensibilities may lie elsewhere, but clearly his take on the property came from a place of love even if there was a level of irreverence present in his approach. He certainly would've at least put something into the concept that spoke to a creative effort and inspiration as his other projects like The Eltingville Club and Fight Man! have shown.
@ This series was my favorite as a kid. I didn’t care much for what happened when Kirby left, hated the post crisis revamp, and dread what the “Fun with Milk and Cheese” creator would have done with it. It was a great example of extended sequential adventure, and Kirby escaped the “character fatigue” that can occur in monthly titles by introducing interesting new characters then either saying farewell to them or killing them off. It’s too substantial a legacy to treat so irreverently. IMO.
I'm kiiiinda think it was for the better this show wasn't picked up. Not that I don't like the idea, and I know Kamandi is very obscure DC character with that most exposure he got was his apperances in Brave and Bolt. But if what I learn about comic book fans, is that they don't like taking comic book characters that were reletivly serious, and turning them into parodies (cough TTG cough) and I think this would just spawn another needless discourse, especially it being first adaptation project of a character. Plus, like how other commentators said, Adventure Time was sort of a spiritual succesor to Kamandi, even if it might have been unintentional.
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DC's lack of faith on any IP that isn't Batman will always be disappointing to me.
Agreed, though it's more wb than dc. If warner brothers always wants batman and nothing else out of the dc brand why just sell all the films and television rights like Green Lantern and Superman to studios who maybe wants to make a proper film or series to these characters 🤔
A blonde man who is the last human of his world, forced to live in a world with strange beings and one of his friends is a dog... Are we sure Kamandi wasn't the inspiration for Adventure Time?
Ironically this series sounds pretty fun. Kamandi's world deserves to be explored more in other mediums
Damnn I never compared the two but you make a good point, Adventure Time does have some similarities with Kamandi. Just another reason why it''s such a goated show
Kamandi is such a classic figure. The recent DC animated films have included him into the universe, along with sgt. Rock, the losers, phantom stranger and death
I'm glad they included the losers. one of my favorite DC movies
Claassic jack kirby character. The 4th world was his passion project. Crazy to think adult swim of all places wanted to adapt it
The Great Disaster titles weren't part of the Fourth World. In fact, Kamandi, OMAC, and The Demon, are the books DC cancelled New Gods and Forever People in order to make Kirby do, were the opposite of Fourth World. He did them because he was under exclusive contract and couldn't work anywhere else in the comics industry. On top of that, he legally had to produce at least 62 comic pages a month or he would not be paid. So, he did them just long enough to ride out his contract with no particular love for the characters and concepts. I think it shows in the quality of the work. The creation of these titles, and the failure of the books he did in the year following upon his return to Marvel, led to him going into animation up until his death.
I'm glad it didn't come out , it would have had pure sh*t animation like Teen Titan go ,not unless they could get the animators from Venture Brothers , but would have liked too seen a Kamandi action series with Jack Kirby art style , a adult swim Plastic Man Ren & Stimpy art and comedy could have worked better
I feel like Gunn could do this character justice, he loves using obscure characters.
He also like really changing them
I agree they should have gave the project to James Gunn
If a Kamandi movie ever happens, it should be made by a true visionary.
Not James Gunn.
He's not obscure if you read comics
Is this character obscure though? I'm not even really a DC fan and I know who he is.
That intro brought me back to watching Adult Swim the first time it aired on TV. I miss those days.
And the geniuses of WB managed to bankrupt themselves instead.
I’d love to see the version of this in showcased in the short, or something similar to Thundarr The Barbarian. The sexually-repressed comedy version I can do without.
I don't know if the full on comedy approach would work seeing as how Kamandi is a very dramatic series focused on action, characters, and world-building. But I do love me some Dorkin so it would have been interesting nontheless.
And yes I do agree, Wildcat should not take on Darkseid, total mismatch lol.
Agree but I am very interested what it would have been like
I think in my opinion it could work if au
Adult swim used a comedic/joke character like maybe ambush bug or condimint king since adult swim mostly tackles with comedy
If it works with "Primal" (when people theorize it was setting in a postapocalyptic Earth) It could work with Kamandi in a 50/50 way
Kamandi is one of my favorite obscure characters in DC and I'd love to see him get a proper adaptation. Yes, there is his appearances in episodes of "Batman: the brave and the bold", but in that he was a guest character, I'm talking about an adaptation of his series on it's own.
Warlord would also be a great DC/Adult Swim show.
I agree. Warlord is another super under-the-radar character in the DC universe that I've gotten into more recently.
Fun fact: Evan Dorkin was part of the Cancel mob that drove “Comics Kayfabe”’s Ed Piskor to k/ll himself. He was specifically named in Piskor’s suicide note.
Kamandi seems like the kind of thing that could really work if done right as a show. If done right...
Adventure Time? 😂😂😂
@@kanesmith8271pretty much wasn't adventure time based on a nuclear post apocalypse ? Yeah I wouldn't mind watching this , but the cartoon art probably would have sucked , rather see an action animation of this series
@@joezar33 That's what Kirby & Steve Gerber did way back with Thundarr the Barbarian, but of course the limited animation sucked in those days and censorship butchered the stories ..
Kamandi Is an amazing character that is very underrated if he ever Gets his own series It Needs to be taken seriously No Comedy Just PTSD survival instincts And maybe come Christianity themes
I'd want to see a Kamandi series with the same style and feel as Primal.
I agree, especially since Primal is such a great show
I loved the premise of Kamandi in the DC Tomorrowverse movies!!! It's like a more dark, adult fantasy version of Adventure Time.
Thanks, man. This video was great.
I would just like to see a Kamandi movie or series in general. He would really add some fresh material to the superhero theme recently.
Great video. Hopefully, we get that Spectacular Spider-Man Season 3 video soon!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you! And you bet, I'm currently rewatching Spectacular (and EMH) and doing research
@@SantiBarrios Wait also Avengers EMH would be good or probably make those two shows in one video!!
@SantiBarrios love to see that EMH is my favorite adaptation of the Avengers ever.
@@Sonicman4155 the EMH video is coming out on friday! :D
@@SantiBarrios awesome 😍
Great stuff! I remember when the DC Nation Kamandi short was anounced for "Justice Society: World War 2", and I so super hyped because my man Cameron Monaghan (aka Jérôme/Jeremiah Valeska from the show *Gotham* , which I'm a big fan of, and also voiced Superboy in the movie "Reign of the Supermen") was cast to voice Kamandi himself \o/
With Steve Blum and Armen Taylor also cast for the short, I had high hopes for it, and between the movie JS:WW2 being one of my favorite Tomorrowverse movies, and the DC Nation short: "Kamandi, the Last boy on Earth" being pretty damn good too, that was a good time to be a DC fanboy.
I was a bit bummed when Kamandi came back to the Tommorowverse a couple years later for "Crisis on Infinite Earths" parts 2&3, and Cameron Monaghan didn't voice him... but hey, he was instead voiced by Terry McGinnis from *Batman Beyond* himself, Will Friedle, so I wasn't too outraged either.
I guess Cameron Monaghan was busy between playing Ian Gallagher in "Shameless" and Carl Kestis in the Star Wars video games (haven't played them frankly, my Star Wars phase is kinda over, but I'm real happy for Mr Monaghan since it's obviously a big opportunity for him), and since Will Friedle was already voicing Terry in the movie, he also voiced Kamandi while he was there.
Anyway, if they bring Kamandi back in the new DC animated movies that will follow the Tomorrowverse, I hope Cameron Monaghan will be available..
Anyway, cheers from France, keep up the good work!
Can't believe your "top 10 DC Nation shorts" video was released 8 years ago (O_o)
Time flies, and you've made so many good stuff since then, you're one of the very few channels who make videos about DC projects in which I _actually_ learn new stuff, so, merci beaucoup mon ami!
I had no idea Cameron Monaghan voiced Kamandi in the Showcase short, that's so cool! He's a really great actor.
And man, I was fresh out of high school when I made that video, didn't realize it's been 8 years lmao. Thank you for supporting the channel, I sincerely appreciate it and I'm glad that you enjoy watching videos on more obscure characters, I feel like it's kind of my duty to document the lesser known projects based on smaller characters so that they don't end up forgotten, dudes like Kamandi and Deadman deserve to be remembered lol
It's interesting to me that Kamandi could've been an Adult Swim show seeing as there's similarities between not only it and Primal, but another Jack Kirby creation by the name of Moonboy and Devil Dinosaur, the original comics by him not the follow up series with the different protagonist and setting.
Edit: 2:11 YOOO, EVAN DORKIN MENTION, LOVE THAT GUY.
But Friend Adult Swim Has a DC Adult Animation show down the Pipeline Get Jiro! based on the DC Vertigo graphic novel by Anthony Bourdain just got the series order too
Ohh you're right! I didn't know about that, hopefully it goes well and they end up making even more comic book shows
I think the ideal comic to do for Adult Swim would be to adapt the Giffen/DeMatteis era Justice League. Though I think any hope of getting any animated adaptation of that died with Keith Giffen. (J.M. DeMatteis attempted to get it rostered as a DC Direct animated movie several times but was always turned down.)
Mann a Justice League International cartoon on adult swim would be amazing
@@SantiBarrios Alas, with Keith Giffen's passing J.M. DeMatteis has said that if he is never asked to write another Justice League story, he's okay with that. He's not really sure if he could anyway.
Shame because JLI would fit perfectly in a sitcom community style. Another what could have been scenario.
@@Sonicman4155 I think LITERAL Community style... since if he hadn't already played Sylvester Pinkerton on Stargirl, I would suggest Joel McHale as Guy.
@@jessewilley531 oh yes that would be perfect casting (no offense to Nathan he's awesome)
The IKEA part reminds me of SCP-3008, particularly Confinement's interpretation of the tribes living there being named after IKEA products. Of course, I hope it didn't use body horror as tasteless humor
The reason that Adult Swim wouldn't pick it up because they already said it's an action show. Those typically cost a lot of money to produce.
They are pretty open that budget quite small. They canceled both Venture Bros and Black Dynamite because both of them are expensive to produce.
Thanks for explaining that
They did a short of kumandi for dc, I think it was in one of their animated movie. It was crazy cool, and so we're a couple other shorts. One was a WW2 story that was amazing. It was basically gi joe vs dinosaurs. I'm 80 percent sure jack Kirby did the original comic. I really hope some of those things could get the adult swim treatment. Shit what was that movie called....just found it. It's called dc showcase presents
Whoops homie talks about it near the end
@kaptainchewy1115 , not sure about the short movies featuring Kamandi, but I first learned about him watching #BatmantheBraveandtheBold .... He appears in 4 or 5 episodes, I believe. 🤓👍
They did kamandi, it was called adventure time.
I used to love Kamandi so I woulda loved this!!!!
I'm getting Spider-Man Unlimited vibes from Kamandi, quite honestly. I am very intrigued and hope DC does something with this character and the world because it has a lot of potential.
Like almost everything Kirby did post Fourth World, the potential is there but his heart wasn't in it. It fails to live up to that potential. Even a quarter of the 4th World stuff doesn't really. Mostly since he abandoned writing Jimmy Olsen early on. Funny, as much as he supposedly HATED the Marvel/Stan Lee method of writing comics, that's exactly what he did on Jimmy Olsen shortly after he started on it. He wrote a plot out with one of his assistants. He drew the story... and then one or more of his assistants would write the script. (Some of that happened because DC was fine with Kirby going Kirby on Kirby creations. But wanted the DC house style on characters like Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, etc. They brought in Curt Swan to 'fix' Kirby's art. Hence, after a while you mostly only see Jimmy and Perry White during the 4th World era.)
I have a bunch of Kamandi issues from the 70s. One of my favorite comic arcs
Could the reason for Warner Bros dropping it have anything to do with maybe royalties that might have to be paid to the Kirby Estate.
You just earn subscriber well made video
Pretty dumb reasons for rejecting the show…but what can one expect from media executives?
I would love to see this in whatever iteration Adult Swim decides to do.
This would've been on my watch list. I loved Adult Swim.
Hello @Santi Barrios sorry for the late reply but I forgot to tell you something about the video. I think that Seth Green would have the voice for Kamandi what do you think.
Sounds awesome
This would have been *amazing.*
Wow I’ve always felt Kamandi would be perf3ct for animation. Surprised it came so close
I'd seriously love to see an animated series of Kamandi. It'll make such a great storytelling, about a boy who's the last of his kind.just think about the crazy and intense journey he had to go through in this intense apocalyptic world, ruled by animal people.
An adult Kamandi show would of been awesome.It would of been like kinda of Son of Zorn vibe show.
Yah, honestly I think that I can see why it wasn't picked up. This looks not very good.
To me Lobo or Ambush Bug would be perfect for Adult Swim.
@kalgrove6426 Oh yes, 💯
The premise for the show sounds like it would've pretty much been Beavis & Butthead: At Earth's End. It probably would've been alright & funny for a while, but I'd prefer a more serious take on Kamandi. It shouldn't be completely serious & dour; it should have some humor but take its world seriously. Something like Samurai Jack, where the character has his main goal he's trying to accomplish, but each episode is a self-contained adventure he has on his journey.
I think he appears in the new crisis of infinite earths DC animated movies.
Oh shit? They were gonna do The Last Boy on Earth? I had those comics when I was a kid. Dr Canus was very helpful
Interesting video, but you barely touched on Kamandi's adventures on the animated series #BatmantheBraveandtheBold ....
He appears in 4 or 5 episodes so wasn't that also important or was it that it didn't have the edge of the proposed Adult Swim version?
I would have been happy to see Kamandi get a series by the same Brave and Bold team. Wonder Woman also deserved her own series, based on the popular WWII short. 🤓👍
Love Kamandi and anything classic Kirby, would definitely have watched this.
it's dyer, not "dryer." she's a fantastic comic creator in her own right.
You're completely right, I only realized after I had recorded and nearly finished the video, my mistake. I wasn't really familiar with their work prior to working on this video, but both Sarah Dyer and Evan Dorkin have made some great comics.
Of course it was a comedy/parody. That’s all they make anymore. It could have been a trippy sci fi adventure series. Instead it would have been shitty venture bros.
Korgoth was the closest we could have gotten this show. But that only had the pilot unfortunately
damn I wouldve loved this show!
No, thanks. "Struggling to get laid to never having it happen " It gets frickin old. Glad Kamandi was rejected. Finn the Human in Adventure Time is Kamandi enough for Cartoon Network.
For me personally it would depend on the execution. If he is supposed to be a teen boy, especially under the circumstances, how could trying to find a girl friend not be a major focus of his concern? Ideally it should, and it seemed it would, also focus on his other needs and missions. And it would be almost like a macguffin most of the time, with the show not literally being _about_ that which would certainly be lame and monotonous. Other stuff would certainly have to end up being the focus of the adventure. Again, I could write an adventure serial about a guy looking for the Hope Diamond that would end up having almost nothing to do with the Hope Diamond all the time. Anyway to me the details of this world seem very exciting and promising and with a lot of potential to be quite original.
@@salvadorromero9712 judging by the premise and art style the right execution was performed by them axing the show
@@usernamedkjahstill5003 I agree about the art style certainly
Could have been done stylistically like *Minoriteam*
Ngl a animated series on The hitman sounds perfect as a adult animated series since its still DC and pretty adult
Did you see Marvel's Hit Monkey series? Hilarious!
@KenLieck I did but I meant HitMAN which is also DC
Really dodged a bullet on this one. Damn as hell. But that fits with Adult Swim.
they should have pitched it at the first rejection as its an adult take of adventure time. adventure time was a very child friendly take of kamandi. i saw that when it came out. and it has that girl crazy take. and adventure time was a banger
Sounds like a Golden Boy remake
I have all 59 issues of kamandi, along with the reprint special from 10 or so years back that printed the shelfed 60th and issues It was just finding a new direction after Kirby, and should have been given another chance.
Which obscure Marvel character should get an Adult Swim show?
12:39 😂😂😂
thought both this as well as caped crusaders were goin to air on hbo max originally
You could do both just make him a little bit like Sanji from One Piece where he loves women but never gets the chance for love.
Its making me think of a boy and his dog.
Exactly except that it doesn't sound like it has the heart of adventure time
For me it sounds too edgy
Too try hard
@1:56 Adult oriented.... Cape Crusader!? HA
Honestly this sounds like it would have bin cool 👌😎
I think it would have been a good show I mean Harley Quinn got her own show and it had both comedy and action and a bit of drama. Also hi @Santi Barrios how are you sorry for not replying in your other videos.
Harley Quinn really paved the way for all the adult comic book shows we've seen the last few years. And thank you!! I really appreciate that you keep enjoying the videos :)
Feels awfully like adventure time came about because Kamandi didn’t come about because planet of the apes was a no go.
Plastic Man Adult Swim (?)
No on rne first pitch, yes on the last.
Never knew this.
In a lot of ways we got it through a spiritual successor to Kamandi with Adventure Time.
Think about it...
After the a cataclysmic event leading to the post apocalypse... The Mushroom War/ The Great Disaster
Humanity has been limited and reduced to a primitive state... Humans of Ooh/ Humans of Earth-AD
A boy and his talking dog companion... Finn & Jake / Kamdi & Doctor Canus
Go on adventures across the post apocalyptic waste land...Land of Ooh / Earth-AD
Along the way they encounter incredible seemingly magic technologies wielded by insane villains... Ice King / The Misfit
And domains, kingdoms and territories have been established by multiple great powers across the globe... Candy Kingdom, Ice Kingdom / Ape Kingdom, Tiger Empire
Even tonally balancing comedy and drama. Adventure Time and Kamandi are both ripe for the whimsy of the post apocalyptic Jungle Book by way of the coming of age that comes with being a teen.
It sure would be cool for Kamandi to get a bit more traction because its so overlooked.
Honestly a video game it could be awesome and a lot of fun.
Combine Legend of Zelda Echoes of the Kingdom art direction and some game play by way of Final Fantasy Tactics A2 class, party and recruitment system.
You can end up with something pretty cool.
this show would have made him well know just like marvel did with antman
1:11 i think its cos of max
at least back when it started
DC would truly be able to compete with Disney/Marvel if they would just let these awesome projects be released. They have more potentially awesome projects scrapped than they have successful releases 👎
11:55 hell yeah , that something i definitely would watch , not the trashy adult swim garbage
I would like the animated series to be action-oriented. Comedy in the now-entertainment is crud.
Adventure Time was this ....
Yes more OMAC
Even dorkins rules
Idgaf This shoulda came out
This pitch is terrible. Glad this didn’t happen.
Adult swim is and cartoon netowork is dying and zvala has killed them
I'm glad this series never happened. It sounds terrible.
Adult Swim is a joke now.
Yuck. Kamandi was a great comic and this comedic take could only have crapped all over it. Write something new if you think you have an idea, but dragging down another person’s creation because you are creatively empty is just cheap.
I'm really inclined to disagree with this, especially when we're talking about Evan Dorkin. His sensibilities may lie elsewhere, but clearly his take on the property came from a place of love even if there was a level of irreverence present in his approach. He certainly would've at least put something into the concept that spoke to a creative effort and inspiration as his other projects like The Eltingville Club and Fight Man! have shown.
@ This series was my favorite as a kid. I didn’t care much for what happened when Kirby left, hated the post crisis revamp, and dread what the “Fun with Milk and Cheese” creator would have done with it. It was a great example of extended sequential adventure, and Kirby escaped the “character fatigue” that can occur in monthly titles by introducing interesting new characters then either saying farewell to them or killing them off. It’s too substantial a legacy to treat so irreverently. IMO.
Mmm.... Nah...
Too much libid anger with that man, I personally wouldn't give him creative control.
I'm kiiiinda think it was for the better this show wasn't picked up. Not that I don't like the idea, and I know Kamandi is very obscure DC character with that most exposure he got was his apperances in Brave and Bolt. But if what I learn about comic book fans, is that they don't like taking comic book characters that were reletivly serious, and turning them into parodies (cough TTG cough) and I think this would just spawn another needless discourse, especially it being first adaptation project of a character. Plus, like how other commentators said, Adventure Time was sort of a spiritual succesor to Kamandi, even if it might have been unintentional.
Adult swim and cartoon network are dead
Not gonna lie this sounds awful
Keep it up G! I loved hearing about this.
Give jackson publick and doc hammer a dc show