Miss the 'Boondocks' strip? DVD fills the gap

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2006 | by Mike Snider; Edna Gundersen; Ann Oldenburg

DVD Just because The Boondocks will be MIA from newspapers for the next six months doesn't mean the comic strip's creator is taking a break. In addition to working on Season 2 of the TV series, which airs on The Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, Aaron McGruder is putting finishing touches on The Boondocks: The Complete First Season DVD, a three-disc set due out June 13 (Sony, $50).

"It's kind of surreal when you are doing it," he says. "I always wanted the TV show when I created the idea, and I guess DVDs are an inevitability for that now, and a very good one."

The strip, which began in 1999 and runs in about 350 newspapers, stars McGruder's two young, loquacious African-American protagonists, Huey and Riley, and their grandfather, who are transplanted to the suburbs....