Genndy Tartakovsky’s PRIMAL Season 3 Trailer Showcases the Terrifying Zombie Spear

After his emotional death at Primary Season 2 finale, the stoic Spear makes a shocking return in Season 3, but is there a twist? He’s back, but as a zombie!

The jaw-dropping reveal was revealed to the unsuspecting crowd at New York Comic Con this weekend, where fans were treated to a first look at the next chapter of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Emmy-winning adult animated epic before the trailer was officially released online.

In a previous interviewseries creator Genndy Tartakovsky teased, “It’s a new level. Everything we did in the first season, we took it up a little bit in the second season, and the third season is even more so. I can’t say anything without giving it all away, but it’s just more, and it’s shocking, and it’s unstoppable. At some point you’re like, ‘I can’t believe I’m watching this.’ “

He added: “In terms of quality, animation, story, emotion, I don’t want to overdo it, but I’ve rarely been proud of a project like this. At the end of the day, we’ll have these 30 episodes, and looking back on Dexter and Powerpuff Girls and even Samurai Jack, how much our quality wavered just because of the process and everything, it’s so solid. And to have a solid, incredible 30 [episodes] for a modest budget, I’m really proud of it.”

In a recent interview, Genndy Tartakovsky revealed that he changed his mind about making Primal season 3 an anthology series. Instead, he decided to center the new season around a gripping Zombie Spear storyline.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Tartakovsky shared: “Yeah! It’s a zombie. I’m not going to talk about how he became one. We will obviously reveal it on the show. I finished it [season 2] story and I was going to move forward. Then I started to have doubts. I just spent 20 episodes keeping people busy and then I kill off the main character which is fine but then what are my options?”

He went on to share that something wasn’t going well about continuing to work on the series as an anthology concept. “The other things I was doing didn’t feel quite right, perhaps because I hadn’t finished the story. And because we had that episode of “Plague of Madness” in the first season where it was a zombie dinosaur, it’s part of our world. It’s pulp. It’s the ultimate pulpy thing, the undead.“

As evidenced by the trailer, even though Spear is now a zombie, the third season will still retain the series’ visceral violence, dialogue-free storytelling, and award-winning sound design.

The trailer leaves a ton of lingering questions, but Genndy Tartakovsky remained tight-lipped in his EW interview regarding the specific events of Primal Season 3, but confirmed that Spear and Fang’s children from the Season 2 finale would appear and play a major role in the upcoming story.

Stay tuned to our sister site Toonado for more updates as we wait for an official release date before Primal Season 3 premieres in January 2026.