Lately I’ve been watching only comedy tv shows, and this is one more. Luckily it is short, so it shouldn’t take me too long to watch the rest.

This seems the perfect series for a comic geek like myself. This animated series has a lot of comics references, as well as other pop culture references. It starts out slowly, focusing on the “heroes” at first.

The Venture brothers are just really dumb boys, but they’re really funny. Their father is Doc Venture, the smart one. While his body guard is Brock Samson, the coolest secret agent ever. He’s my favorite character, his scene with the Russian spy was hilarious.

Then there are a ton of supervillains, all pretty funny. But this series doesn’t start to click until the last part of the season, when all the characters introduced previously start to get tied together. We also delve into the characters past, which is both good storytelling and just funny.

There are some problems that seem to be dictated by limited budget. The intro music is really annoying, I always try to skip it if I can. The title credits are also not that interesting to me, I really don’t see why the skull is so prominent.

Also there are only a few voice actors that dub multiple characters, and sometimes they’re not distinguishable, which is confusing and distracting. Some of the villains I just don’t care about, others I laugh every time they speak (I love it when Doc Orpheus speaks seriously and menacing).

I should mention that this is not a show for kids, their jokes are often of sexual nature or just mature by nature.

This first season is promising, I am looking forward to the rest.

Season Rating: 2.5 Stars