Recommended Viewing: ``SPACE KING'' ``SPACE KING'' is an independently produced cartoon parodying ``Warhammer 40K''. As a man who knows much of nothing about ``Warhammer 40K'', I rather like it, and highly recommend it. I will list the URL of each video on YouTube, but first list the creators' Patreon page where uncensored videos are: https://www.patreon.com/c/flashgitz/ I love ``SPACE KING'', just like the zealots, so I made a Patreon account to support the production. It was rather frustrating to realize Patreon expects people to use a WWW video player to watch those uncensored episodes, but a cursory inspection revealed the video as an M3U8 playlist, and the yt-dlp program out of which I get so much use was able to download the videos easily enough once I freed my cookies from their WWW browser. The show also has an Internet storefront, available at this domain: https://flashgitz.shop In this review, I'll be spoiling the episodes' plots to various small degrees, as I see it required. Here are the URLs of the first four episodes on YouTube, and a special which I particularly enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknNsZgzG1g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZIdiWluyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFgU_Rtta2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeQjav4fUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCOfCArRi1M The show begins by introducing the comedically-evil psycho warriors as they harvest young boys, whom they use as living vessels for their holy globules and thus revive their fallen soldiers, then shows them throwing little girls, of no use to them, into an active volcano. The first battle takes place on an alien planet, only for them to learn it to be the wrong place for their artefact retrieval, as they drop a geno-bomb on it and eradicate twenty billion aliens. The main cast goes alone to a moon afterwards: Captain, Bryce, Hatemonger, and Chestnut. They fight a female alien who transfixes them with her large breasts. Despite killing women and viewing them as subhuman, the psycho warriors are concerned with accusations of homosexuality. The creators' statement at the end puts it quite well: There's plenty of independent animation targeted at mentally-ill teenage girls, but what about mentally-ill teenage boys, and thirty-year old men? I find this show to be crass, funny, and well-written; it's heavily influenced by the 1980s, as most entertainment is nowadays, but has a unique identity and enough verisimilitude. The animation is of course very nice and I failed to recognize it as puppet-rigged until the creators mentioned it. The third episode is that point at which the show fully enters its routine, with the show's introduction sequence and everything else solidified: The show has single, direct plots without any subplots yet; at least one monochromatic painting that emphasizes particular scenes; and features false commercial breaks advertising new merchandise such as cereal or vinyl figurines, with children as the audience. The second episode bests the first and features an important man's child abducted, alongside several blood puns and the first false commercial break. The important child is progressively mutilated and augmented with machinery repeatedly, only for the situation to worsen. Hatemonger's hate mace works only for those ``who are pure of hate'' and learns self-loathing works for such. The episode's plot is fairly straightforward, and ends with mass murder in cold blood and the important man killed too. In this episode, Hatemonger is properly introduced as a source of modern day, relevant dog whistles. The third episode is easily my favourite so far, hilariously portraying imagination as a profession. It begins with the psycho warriors destroying an entire planet, purely because no girls are allowed. The plot flows so smoothly that I failed to notice its structure at first, as it's easy to see it as ``things happening'' and little more: Killing a time wizard without reason becomes a quest for green lasers, much manlier than their pink lasers, and only on a second watch did this segue become clear. This episode warrants at least two watches for this structure, absent in every other episode so far. The fourth episode and its accompanying short are about Kingsmas, a parody of Christmas based around identifying and killing heretics. The structure of the plot mirrors that of ``Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'', even using the same names for the major characters to make it more obvious. The episode is greatly enhanced by its accompanying short, which makes use of the black X used to mark heretics, first shown in the episode; therein, Hatemonger bemoans Kingsmas becoming X-mas as he murders. This is an excellent example of the hilarious writing this series displays, though far from the only one. This episode first pretends to subvert its plot structure before immediately giving up on it, and it features one of the funniest scenes in the show: one psycho warrior, a heretic, questions if they're the bad guys, and is mercilessly shot by every other warrior before he can even finish his sentence. I greatly anticipate future episodes of ``SPACE KING'', at the least my second-favourite independent animation; this show seems more likely to end rather than rot as most entertainment rots these days. .