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HIS DEATH WAS CONFIRMED WHEN HE WAS REMOVED FROM THE CROSS

WHEN THE TOMB WAS OPENED THE BODY WAS GONE

THE STONE SEALING IT HAD NOT BEEN MOVED BEFORE IT WAS CHECKED

THE ONLY WAY IN OR OUT OF THE TOMB WAS THROUGH THE SEALED ENTRANCE

Adult Swim has assembled a superstar coalition of celebrated animation creators for one of its most ambitious projects to date. Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall), Ian Jones-Quartey (OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), and Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) have reunited, in a manner of speaking, for Adult Swim’s The Elephant, a narrative experiment premiering December 19 as an ad-free special on Adult Swim before streaming the following day on HBO Max. The project is produced as a triptych, with each act created in total isolation from the others. Sugar and Jones-Quartey collaborated on one segment, McHale and Ward helmed their own respective acts, and none of the teams were aware of what the others were making. “Game masters” Jack Pendarvis and Kent Osborne, both Adventure Time veterans, oversaw the process, guiding a story intended to make sense only once all three independently developed pieces merge on screen.