Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack – Episode V

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  • Title: Samurai Jack – Episode V: Jack in Space
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Samurai Jack - Episode V television review

Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of the time-displaced samurai and his never-ending quest to make his way home. While running from a pack of Aku‘s (Mako) killer robot Mantoids, Jack (Phil LaMarr) accidentally leads them to the secret base of a group of scientists attempting to build a rocket ship to escape the evil that is Aku. Given that his actions caused their discovery, Jack sticks around to help the group escape Earth. After a few rigorous tests, and much discussion, the group designs him a rocket suit to help them flee and a plan to use the escape pod at sublight speed to use science to slingshot the samurai back to his rightful time.
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Behind the Scenes – Samurai Jack – Season Five

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  • Title: Samurai Jack – Season Five
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Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky and cast and crew discuss Samurai Jack‘s return to television more than a decade after the last episode aired which just may finally provide a conclusion to the time-traveling samurai’s long-awaited journey home in an upcoming 10-episode event which Jack will attempt once more to undo the future that is Aku.

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Samurai Jack – Episode IV

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  • Title: Samurai Jack – Episode IV: Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites
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Samurai Jack - Episode IV

An initial error in judgement by Samurai Jack (Phil LaMarr) is put right in “Episode IV.” Witnessing a runaway Woolie burst through the forest, Jack wrangles the animal and returns it to the mounted Chritchellites who were perusing it on other Woolies. Invited to their village, a starving Jack accepts despite having serious objections to how the the strangers are treating the Woolies. Learning that the Woolies, tortured for the Chritchellites amusement, can speak, Jack decides something must be done about the situation. A dream leads Jack on the proper course of action. Freeing the Woolie he helped capture, Jack and the creature help break the Chritchellites’ dominance of the Woolies, freeing the creatures and sending the aliens back into the spaceships to flee.

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Samurai Jack #20

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Samurai Jack #20Although it has far less of our title character than any other issue of the series, Samurai Jack #20 is a fitting end to IDW’s comic adventures of the time-displaced samurai. Set years in the future, the issue centers not on Jack but a scribe named Mako (in deference to the actor who so brilliantly voiced the Jack’s nemesis in the cartoon) who has spent his life gathering stories of Samurai Jack.

On the eve of Jack’s latest, and largest, assault against Aku, Mako luckily runs into someone that not only has firsthand knowledge of Jack but who can lead him straight to the legendary warrior’s camp not only allowing Mako to hear countless new stories of Jack but also meet the man himself.

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