#The venture bros

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Team Fortress 2 ultimately really wound up giving Venture Bros energy with how all the high-level plot stuff ended up either self-negating (Grey getting backstabbed by his own mercs for control of a life extension machine that they don't actually know how to operate) or having been pointless the entire time (The Administrator) with most of the quote-unquote "net gain" of the story being the cast members finding ways to move on and find fulfillment in the face of, and ultimately outside of, an untenable genre-fiction status quo.

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GO TEAM FORTRESS!

Revamp of my TF2 X Venture Bros art made in celebration of the 7th comic

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Dean Headcanon: Pete helped him with his hair

Looking at Dean's hair...you can't tell me Pete White did not help Dean w/ his hair...(hey that angle/shape looks awfully familiar) and I feel like Dean WOULD go to someone who he felt was 'rebellious' and considering Pete & Billy live in a trailer and aren't beholden to 'rules', etc...

I just love the thought that Dean's 'emo phase' feels more like Pete giving him pointers (dying your clothes black is a universal response for sure) but there's just something adorable and refreshing about Dean going about it from the perspective of a 40+ something year old albino who went to college in the 80's and knows his music, etc.

idk...just like the thought that Dean going to Uncle Pete would be really cool to see (considering he and Hank called him to help out back in Season 3) & the boys aren't quick to write him & Billy off as "more adults to tell us what to do".

(besides Rusty realizing Dean is going through his own personal emotions and letting him go through it because he gets it, I can see Dean going to Pete also being a reason why Rusty isn't against him wanting to be his own person and wear his hair differently, etc).

I think that would be kinda neat as a 'friendship solidarity' moment.

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College Sheila/Dr girlfriend

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I just love a good role reversal...NEED a fic where Brock and Rusty get swept away by an avalanche with their only means of communication broken and Brock is injured enough that Rusty has to step up and take care of/help Brock while they try to get back to the twins who are sitting worried with Hatred up at the ski lodge...switch up the hero/damsel dynamics a bit...Rusty buckles down and keeps marching and making a split for Brock's leg and using his own jacket to bandage Brock's hands and climbing up trees to see where they are and purifying snow to drink and Brock is in a slightly wounded daze and gets heart-goggles with Doc acting like an adult capable of caring for both of them. Brock talks Rusty through skinning a deer and they almost make-out but Rusty abruptly goes to "wash off" in a nearby creek and Brock and his broken hands are left with a massive hard-on

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in case you missed it...

🎄Every Venture Bros Christmas Song🎄

→ back to the Billy Quizboy & Pete White index

→ hear the Venture Bros Xmas song on KenPlume's youtube → back to the Billy Quizboy & Pete White index

Billy Quizboy as the rabbit-toothed guitarist DAVE HILL of glam rock band SLADE— sporter of the worst bangs in rock n' roll history*— circa their 1973 Christmas #2 Merry Christmas Everybody**, which was covered as the annual Venture Bros holiday song this year by Pete White, Master Billy Quizboy, his mom and her lovers (the elderly superhero polycule).

Merriest Twelfth Day of Christmas to you, to Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer and to Slade and anyone else still reading.

I know with the orange hair & eye patch, which Dave Hill did NOT have, Billy looks more like Ziggy Stardust— the Quizboy:Slade ratio is a delicate balance.

If you're wondering why you've never heard this song before, know Slade is more of a British thing, really. They had a ton of British hits in the 1970s as a glam rock band, but didn't make any impression in the US until the 1980s after Cum on Feel the Noize was covered by Quiet Riot. They had a minor US top 20 hit, but still remained primary a British thing.

Merry Christmas Everybody— not released in the US as far as I know

Noddy Holder was more of the “face” of Slade (head to toe plaid, mutton chops, top hat covered in mirrors). I suspect the all-plaid outfit on Col. Gentleman in the Vbros cover art is a take on Noddy's look... or he ignored the brief and dressed as one of Scotland's own Bay City Rollers.

Slade suffered from a lesser case of Cheap Trick syndrome, where every member dressed like they were in a different band. Dave dressed full spaceman-- face glitter, every variety of metallic fabric available (lurex, glitter knit, vinyl, lamé). The other guitarist whose name I won't look up wore a red lurex suit (I guess that would be Pete's outfit in their cover band) which he had to keep replacing because he sweated so much on stage the fibers literally melted (one of the suits was preserved by the V&A on an episode of Secrets of the Museum) And no one cares about the drummer.

The only reason I know anything about Slade — I'm no rock trivia geek, I’m a comedy nerd — Slade was a constant punchline in 1990s British Comedy. Noddy appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in the LaMar era. The 1993 sketch show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer had a recurring mini-sitcom “Slade in Residence” (the band living in a suburban home together, wearing their stage costumes, eating nothing but cup-of-soup, obsessing over monster truck rallies and­— the key to their appeal to Vic and Bob, I imagine­— whining in thick Black Country accents.)

Billy is my Covid muse and if he stars in the annual Christmas cover (he had only sung before on 2006's VentureAid; read poems on their take on the Beatles Fan Club records), it's not like I CAN'T draw something despite saying I was done with this fan art shit. I promised a *technically* Christmas Billy drawing and I *technically* delivered. ___

*Dave Hill was just being a futuristic spaceman, those micro-bangs were the hotness on all the skater girls of the late 1990s.

**Having the #1 song at Christmas is a big deal in the UK (as you may remember from the Bill Nighy segments from Love Actually) and the 1973 slug match between Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and the eventual winner Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday looms large in music trivia, to the degree that I was sure Astrobot Go was going to release a cover a day later of some other (more fan-favored) characters doing their version of Wizzard to rain on Billy et. al’s parade.

→ Wizzard

So which character dons the beard and harlequin eye facepaint to be the guy from Wizzard? Probably Hank, right?

→ go to the Billy Quizboy & Pete White index → Nobody'sSweetheart on Instagram

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There could be a trans allegory in cloning if you think hard enough

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obsessed with redrawing dan hentschel posts as doc venture

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FINAL ROUND

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