Comic strip artist Aaron McGruder’s award-winning “The Boondocks” is jumping of the printed page onto the TV tube November 6 on the Cartoon Networks’ “Adult Swim.”
Like the comic strip, the new, animated comedy series starring Regina King and John Witherspoon, is a provocative family-based comedy brimming with social relevance and satire.
The highly anticipated series tells the story of Huey and Riley, two kids who move from the southside of Chicago to the suburbs with their Granddad Robert Freeman (Witherspoon). Granddad takes the kids with the idea that he can ignore that he can ignore his rambunctious and enjoy his fourth quarter of life in peace.
That won’t be possible because Huey, a 10-year-old leftist revolutionary and his 8-year old misfit brother Riley don’t adapt to the new environment as well as expected. Although the boys torture each other and provoke the neighborhood, they are no match for Granddad, who is eccentric even by “crazy old black man” standards.
Together they deal with everything from drugs, R.Kelly and gangsters to Martin Luther King Jr. and “Black Jesus.”
