http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-520
Awesome news, going to make the weekend rather busy, OFP2, brutal legend, ballad of gay tony and now monkey island?
In amongst all that I have to finish my IT project for teusday

Uh oh! I hope your IT project is 90% done already.

Not QUITE 90% but getting close.
Ahh its due 10AM on teusday and the last time I had to present a project, which was in fact the ancestor of this one, it was only finished and debugged an hour before the presentation, I reckon I'll be right. Just ONE more go of that mission in OFP...
Also: STAN!!! First Murray and now Stan, awesome comeos.

Hmm, maybe I should get around to finishing Episode 2 one of these days.

Yes and then get & finish episode 3 as well

I've only played monkey island 3 & loved it, but would it be okay just jumping back into the series with the episodes or shouldn't i bother?

I think you'd be good, you'll appreciate a little more of the humour if you've played the original games as well but you shouldn't be left scratching your head wondering what the hell is going on.
Well actually you probably will, thats the point of adventure games but they don't penalise you for not having played everything.
I'd definitely recommend the secret of monkey island special edition as well as the tales of monkey island series, that's a hell of a good remake

Goddamnit these episodes are coming too fast. I haven't finished the first episode yet.

The previous three were bundles of fun, this one should prove to be no different.

Cannot wait.