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Invader Zim Creator Blasts Paramount, Nickelodeon For Revival Series
Paramount Jhonen Vasquez got his start in the entertainment world with some of the most disturbing comic books ever printed, with the likes of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac creating stories that were fit to bursting with buckets of blood. This made Nickelodeon’s decision to bring him on as an animator all the more surprising, as Vasquez []
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