David Weigel of Reason interviews Jackson Publick, real name Christopher McCulloch, co-creator of Venture Bros., on The Horrible Truth about Super-Science:
The basic idea of The Venture Brothers was taking the world of Jonny Quest and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny — with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures — would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn’t grow up to be what he should have been. Doc has really said it best: The beauty of failure is the beauty of human beings.