: IT'S OFFICIAL: Invader Zim on DVD


Ketsuban
This news broke at 3:30 PM EST today on the IZ fansite A Room with a Moose and has been confirmed by John Sirabella, CEO of Media Blaster.


ZIM INVADES HOME VIDEO THROUGH ANIMEWORKS!

New York City (November 06, 2003) – AnimeWorks is ready to rain down Zim’s doom upon the heads of animation fans everywhere with its release of Jhonen Vasquez’s Invader Zim. Anime fans have been screaming for this DVD release since Zim first aired on Nickelodeon in 2001 and now it’s finally here. Coming Spring 2004 will be the first of three double disc sets and a limited edition boxed set which promises to send fans’ blood racing through their veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command them! Invader Zim currently airs on Nicktoons, Nickelodeon’s digital home for animated hits.

“We at Media Blasters are thrilled to add Invader Zim to our powerful line-up, and expect it to be one of our flagship titles in 2004,” said John Sirabella, CEO of Media Blasters. “Zim has created quite a fan buzz in the anime community and we know that it will be a huge sensation!”

From the inventive mind of comic book creator Jhonen Vasquez, and co-executive produced by animation veteran Mary Harrington, Invader Zim focuses on a paranoid alien named Zim from planet Irk who believes he is at the forefront of a sinister plan of galactic conquest. Jhonen Vasquez is famous for such fan favorite comics as Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, SQUEE!, and I Feel Sick.

AnimeWorks is a division of Media Blasters. INVADER ZIM will be released in early Spring of 2004.

DarkBahamut
WOOOOOOOO!!!!!
ZIM!
*does the GIR dance*
I am so gonna own this
any news on if it will be picked back up and finished now that it's hitting DVD?

Ryvaken Tal`Draco
Dear...god...

This explains why I'm distanced from the main anime community...

THEY'S STOOPID!!

Yes, I can read the irony.

Ketsuban
*stares at Ryvaken* Oookay...

any news on if it will be picked back up and finished now that it's hitting DVD?

Doubtful. But there is a good chance the season 2 episodes, which have only aired in Brazil, will be included - the person who broke this news on RWaM mentioned seeing the master copies of Dibship Rising and Gaz: Taster of Pork in a box at the AnimeNation studio.

DarkBahamut
shweeeet

doodler
WHAT? Brazil? Nickelodeon has gone truly mad; giving Brazilians the good stuff while holding back on us. Tsk, tsk... it is for shame.

Oh yeah, w00t and stuff about the DVDs. Too bad I got no money to buy them with.

cow bell man
Well, it looks like some fans are going to have fun with this movie. :)