I recently bought Heroes Season One on DVD (which by the way, I felt cheated when I found out that Target has an exclusive “Collector’s Edition“) and was making room in my television section on my shelf and found out I had the Æon Flux boxset. I had forgotten I bought this animated series a while back when the Æon Flux live action movie, starring Charlize Theron, came out.

I have always loved the style of animation that Peter Chung created for the series. It’s a very distinctive look and the story is insanely bizarre, making the show a giant acid trip.

The shorts made its debut on MTV’s Liquid Television, which also helped launched Beavis & Butt-Head.

This DVD set I have includes the complete animated series, plus all the shorts from Liquid Television as bonus features on the third disc. This was also a Best Buy edition which came with an 11-track Soundtrack. The soundtrack was composed by Drew Neumann, and old friend of Chung.

According to the production notes from Peter Chung, the DVD contain personal archive materials and the negative were cleaned and digitally remastered.

Also, some of the episode had additional dialogs and animation added, as mentioned by Peter Chung:

Four of the full-length episodes – “Utopia or Deuteranopia?”, “The Demiurge”, “Reraizure” and “Eand Sinster”, have been selected dialogue rewritten to bring characterization into better continuity with the series as a whole. Denis Poirier and John Lee returned to the studio to record Aeon’s and Trevor’s new lines, while the character of Clavius, the ex-leader of Bregna, has been recast and re-recorded (by a special guest performer). The original audio clements have been remixed for 5.1 surround sound.

PS, I was sorely disappointed in the live action movie 🙁