Fox is bringing Axe Cop to television in a new Saturday line-up of animated shows.
In a press release from Animation Domination HD, it was announced that Axe Cop has been given an order of six 15-minute long episodes. The new animated series will be part of a new prime-late (11-12:30) block that is set to begin in 2013.
Axe Cop got its start as a web comic by the Nicolle brothers. Five years old at the time, Malachai was creating the stories for the comic while his 29-year-old brother drew it, created the web-site and finished up the story. After it launched in 2010, it went viral and became a real comic in 2011 at Dark Horse.
The story is pretty self explanatory, it's about a cop who uses an Axe instead of a gun to help protect the world from bad guys. He is joined by a superhero with socks for arms and a dinosaur wearing aviators with machine gun arms.
Axe Cop is just the first entry from Animation Domination HD, the Fox company that was put together to develop and produce "alternative animated series, shorts, and user-adapted material. Other shows will be announced later, along with projecct that will run on the Web, mobile, game consoles, and VOD. Former Adult Swim exec Nick Weidenfeld will be leading ADHD.
