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Adult Swim’s hilarious, controversial The Boondocks went out with a bit of a whimper in 2014, when it s fourth season was developed without creator Aaron McGruder at the helm. In our review, we called it “ a copy of McGruder’s baby made from a printer that needs a fresh ink cartridge,” adding that “t he clear, hard lines of McGruder’s vision and sensibility aren’t the only things that are a little faded.” It’s a good thing, then, that McGruder will return to oversee a reboot of the series from Sony Animation.




John Witherspoon, who voices Gran dad on the series, spoke of a return on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, and now TheWrap reports that Sony made it official on Wednesday at France’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Described as a “re-imagining,” the reboot will “update the cult, subversive satire for the modern era ” by setting the Freeman family “against the evil local government tyrant Uncle Ruckus, who rules the fictional Woodcrest County, Maryland with an iron fist.”

In a time when comedians struggle to satirize the Trump era, we look to McGruder with bright, shining eyes.