Lazor Wulf

**Lazor Wulf** is an American adult-animated television series created and directed by Henry Bonsu with Daniel Weidenfeld who served as co-developer and co-produced by Williams Street and Bento Box Entertainment, exclusively for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim, premiering on April 7, 2019. The series was made avaliable on September 1, 2020. The series was removed from HBO MAX near early 2022.

## **Premise**

*Lazor Wulf* follows the titular wolf who carries a laser strapped onto his back and believes that love has no limit, that wearing do-rags gives you power and that god is a lie.

## **Cast**

* Vince Staples as Lazor Wulf
* J.D. Witherspoon as Stupid Horse, Various
* Ettore "Big E" Ewen as Canon Wulf
* Andre Pascoe as King Yeti
* Reginald VelJohnson as God
* Quinta Brunson as Blazor Wulf, The Youth
* D.R.A.M. as Wallace
* Henry Bonsu as Various

## **Production**

### Conception

Lazor Wulf, the title character, first emerged as a joke between Bonsu and a couple of his friends based on the satirical Amazon reviews and memes around the Three Wolf Moon t-shirt that made waves online a few years ago. Bonsu began drawing stories focused on a wolf with a laser on his back and whose best friend was a piece of ham, with the unique feature being that each strip would present a different take on the design of the characters.

“I would always change the design of the character every strip mostly because I’d get bored, but also in my mind I felt that when you are making a new thing that no one knows about, it feels like you are making fan art just for yourself, fan art of something that is still not mainstream,” Bonsu told Cartoon Brew. Once Adult Swim picked up *Lazor Wulf,* he tried to carry a lot of that energy for reinvention into the cartoon.

“The inhabitants of the town aren’t necessarily shocked that God might float down to interact, but at the same time there is a wolf family, a Yeti, and a talking horse. All these elements aren’t strange to them. Nothing is really strange to them and that’s what makes that world funny,” explained Bonsu.

### Release

On November 7, 2019, Adult Swim announced that the show has been renewed for a second season, which had a stealth premiere on March 31, 2020 and will officially premiere in Fall 2020.

On July 9, 2020, series creator Henry Bonsu was one of many names attached to WarnerMedia's virutal HBO Max/TBS Adult Animation Comic-Con panel, alongside Seth Green and Matthew Senrich (Robot Chicken), Genndy Tartakovsky (Primal), Carl Jones (Black Dynamite) and Olan Rogers (Final Space).

## Trivia

* There is a character in the musical, *Fiddler on the Roof* named Lazar Wolf.
	+ Henry Bonsu, the show's creator, has yet (As of November 2019) to state whether he was inspired by the musical for his own show or if he developed the idea independently.
* Uniquely, *Lazor Wulf* features a predominantly black voice cast, which is a rarity in animation.
	+ The voice cast is led by rapper Vince Staples, who is also an executive producer alongside Bonsu, Daniel Weidenfeld (*China, IL)* and Carl Jones (*The Boondocks*), and also features DRAM, Ettore Ewen (Aka Big E), Quinta Brunson, Judnick Mayard, Andre Pascoe, Reginald VelJohnson and J.D. Witherspoon.