He has fought to keep progressive politics out of comics for years. He has frequently spoken out against marriage equality, and recently misgendered a transgender journalist who criticized his work. TenNapel is well known in the games and comics industry for his anti-LGBTQ+ views. It’s worth noting that Jim has a difficult history due to his original creator, Doug TenNapel. While he’s been part of some remakes and other projects in the 2000s, he’s mostly fallen into obscurity over the past 20 years.
The character headlined four video games and a Kids’ WB animated series in the ’90s. He’s got a space blaster, and battles through the stars in a spaceship. Interplay has not revealed which network or streaming service Earthworm Jim, Beyond the Groovy will appear on, but a representative told Polygon, “We selected to represent the series and pick the best partner for distribution.”Įarthworm Jim is an earthworm in a beefy robotic suit. The announcement for Earthworm Jim, Beyond the Groovy includes a host of concept art and a faux interview with the star himself. The lift has two speeds, fast and slow, and Jim has to get the timing just right because grannies are falling from the sky, and if one lands on him they will start beating him with a handbag saying “How fresh!” Elsewhere in the level, a pig-sty appears, and Jim has to lift up sizable hogs.Image: Interplay Entertainment, Passion Pictures In the middle of a swampy forest, Jim suddenly has to ride up a flight of stairs in a stairlift. Most of these enemies are generically cartoony, but soon some oddities become apparent. This style is readily apparent in EJ2, which first presents the player with figuring out how to run, jump, and attack. “A game’s first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices,” TenNapel says in the Kill Screen interview, adding that for humor to work in a game, it “has to be a gentleman.” That is to say, it should be present in quick spurts. TenNapel, speaking to Kill Screen, described the humor of the series as “a difficult tightrope of satire, innocence, and non-sequitur humor.” The plot of EJ2 is a simple, and much like the plot of the first: save Princess Whats-Her-Name from the evil Psy-Crow, no matter how gross the journey gets. Like the Sonic games, Earthworm Jim started with a character, and that character was meant to be goofier than Mario.
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