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warf0x0r
01/19/09

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Why does it say short lived for The Boondocks. The show is in its 3rd season and I haven't seen anyone say it's been canceled. The cartoon strip was canceled tho.
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Charlie Jane Anders
01/19/09

@warf0x0r: Whoops, fixed that. Don't know where I got that impression. Duh.
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MatchzMalone
01/19/09

@warf0x0r: The cartoon strip was only cancelled so he could focus on the TV show. Also, I read in an interview hes working on something new, didnt remember if he said what it was though.

On a side note: I had put this same boondocks clip on my site earlier... Well not the same clip exactly, but a clip of the same thing.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
01/19/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: There haven't been any new ep's in forever, plus they canceled the cartoon, so your idea wasn't totally out-there.

Our paper replaced it with "Candorville", which I like a LOT more. I find it funnier, and the main character is a primo SF fan. He's always wearing t-shirts with a Federation logo, or pondering stuff about Babylon 5. Check it out.
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Grey_Area
01/19/09

In reply to Martin Luther King In Science Fiction
Harry Turtledove used Dr. King in many of his allohistories. My favorite is The Two Georges, a standalone novel (those long series do get tiresome, don't they?) he co-authored with Richard Dreyfuss (!?). In it Sir Martin Luther King is the Governor-General of the North American Union, still part of the British Commonwealth, and Richard Nixon is a famous car dealer in Southern California.

Never saw that Boondocks, "...I'm goin' to Canada."

Whoa.
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Charlie Jane Anders
01/19/09

@Grey_Area: Ooh, I'm totally adding that. Thanks!
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