Invader Zim Coming to DVD in 2004...

[rugrats1]

...but not by Paramount. A popular anime label will be releasing them instead. According to a Viacom press release (via Toon Zone, http://www.toonzone.net/ ):

ZIM INVADES HOME VIDEO THROUGH ANIMEWORKS!

New York City (November 06, 2003) ? AnimeWorks is ready to rain down Zim?s doom upon the heads of animation fans everywhere with its release of Jhonen Vasquez?s Invader Zim. Anime fans have been screaming for this DVD release since Zim first aired on Nickelodeon in 2001 and now it?s finally here. Coming Spring 2004 will be the first of three double disc sets and a limited edition boxed set which promises to send fans? blood racing through their veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command them! Invader Zim currently airs on Nicktoons, Nickelodeon?s digital home for animated hits.

?We at Media Blasters are thrilled to add Invader Zim to our powerful line-up, and expect it to be one of our flagship titles in 2004,? said John Sirabella, CEO of Media Blasters. ?Zim has created quite a fan buzz in the anime community and we know that it will be a huge sensation!?

AnimeWorks is a division of Media Blasters. INVADER ZIM will be released in early Spring of 2004.

For further info please visit: http://www.media-blasters.com

More details here:

http://www.animatedbliss.com/news.asp?TID=1232

[meowchi]

All I can say is wOo HoO!!!!

[Atomic Orgasm]

about damn time.

[pudding-chan]

Do any of u guys know how much these invader zim dvds
will cost, and where i can get them????

invader zim is like the best american cartoon, well one
of them
HAPPY TREE FRIENDS is also really cool
(and disturbingly violent)
check it out: http://www.happytreefriends.com
also, check out http://www.homestarrunner.com

they rock!!!!

[HarukaTenoh11]

I bought a invader zim dvd from a comic book convention that has like 27-30 episodes on it. anybody know how many episodes these are going to have?
haruka

[rugrats1]

According to this Anime on DVD thread:

http://tinyurl.com/ul6k

Anime Works have obtained the masters to the following episodes:

The Nightmare Begins
Bestest Friend
NanoZIM
Parent Teacher Night
Walk of Doom
Germs
Dark Harvest
Attack of the Saucer Morons
The Wettening
Career Day
Battle-Dib
Planet Jackers
Rise of the Zitboy
Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain
Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy
A Room with a Moose
Hamstergeddon
Plague of Babies
Bloaty's Pizza Hog
Door to Door
FBI Warning of Doom
Bolognius Maximus
Game Slave 2
Battle of the Planets
Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom
Mysterious Mysteries
Future Dib
Hobo 13
Walk for Your Lives
Megadoomer
Lice
Abducted
The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot
GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff
Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom
TAK: The Hideous New Girl
Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars
Mortos der Soul Stealer
ZIM Eats Waffles
The Girl Who Cried Gnome
Dibship Rising
Vindicated!
The Voting of the Doomed
Gaz, Taster of Pork
The Frycook What Came from All that Space
The Most Horrible X-mas Ever

...with more to come.

Whether these are the original or censored-by-Nick masters are still unclear at this time.

Media Blasters themselves (which owns the Anime Works label) now has a copy of Viacom's press release on their site:

http://www.media-blasters.com/zim.cfm

As of the homemade DVDs, I saw a copy being played at a recent comic convention (several times -- I was a dealer sitting across a DVD seller), and I thought the quality was pretty good -- it would've passed as a commercial DVD if it wasnt for the "Nick.Com" bug or the "TV-Y7-FV" icon at the start of each episode.