Internet cartoon delivers violent fun

Internet cartoon delivers violent fun

Once upon a time, two graduates of the University of Colorado decided to make a perverse cartoon for adults, which would simultaneously lampoon the fads and politics of society while also testing the outer limits of their audience’s gag reflex. Thus Matt Stone and Trey Parker begat “South Park,” and so the modern age of mature cartoons was born.

On this very campus, one animator and a group of friends from the area have created a similar monster: “Goremaster,” a bloody Flash epic that follows the exploits of its eponymous hero. Imagine Rambo with Chuck Norris’ mullet and a temperamental wall-eye, and you have some idea of Hugo von Goremaster’s appearance, but looks aren’t everything.'
Goremaster, voiced by co-creator and junior in communications Zack Hicks, has, over two episodes, slain friend and foe in multitudinous manners. A flamethrower down the throat, an arm used to decapitate its owner, then as a high-powered aerial saw and the classic fist through skull are but a few of the entrail-covered means of bringing outlaws to justice.
Hicks said the show, rooted in the creators’ collective love of South Park and likewise violent comic animation, has been long in the works.
“It was me and two friends of mine,” Hicks said. “We’re basically South Park and Venture Brothers nerds. We figured, ‘We’re artists, we can make stuff make something really violent with a barbarian hero.’”
Thus came the show, which at the time of this writing is available on Newgrounds, Albino Black Sheep and YouTube and has amassed more than 89,000 views between the first two episodes. Hicks said a possible DVD release is in planning, but such a release depends on the success on the next few episodes of the show.
Hicks said that, while money is not the root of the show, the ability to turn it into a career may not be out of the question.

“We got sponsored by Albino Black Sheep and had over 20,000 views, and Newgrounds is sponsoring ‘Goremaster 2,’” Hicks said. “Right now it’s sort of my full-time job.”

Hicks’ cohorts include co-creator Luke Hatmaker, a student actor at Belmont who also voices Goremaster’s sidekick Grizzlefist, and Robert Stephan, a local actor who will appear in the Clarence Brown Theatre production of “A Christmas Carol” this year and lends his voice to nemesis Baron Skullprince, Goremaster’s chief nemesis.
Accompanied by original music from Lucas Samms, the show very much appears a work of love made by friends, though the love is not necessarily felt so much as the gut-crushing horror onscreen and the sick anticipation of what hellacious havoc Goremaster will wreak next.
Episode Two came out last weak and accounts for nearly half of the total views tabulated in this story. From the looks of things, viewers are flocking to the videos and have mostly positive responses. As Goremaster battles a familiar plummer who may or may not have enhanced many of our youths, one thing is certain: This brutal barbarian is here to stay.
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