The Thrilling Adventure Hour by Ben Acker
Based on the popular Hollywood stage show and Nerdist Industry podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour is a rip-roaring adventure anthology in the tradition of old-time radio serials, brought to you by a carnival of Hollywood and comic's finest! In a timeless collection of original genre tales that harken back to the heyday of old-time radio entertainment, The Thrilling Adventure Hour brings to life the wild and wonderful worlds and characters serialized on stage by co-creators Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, and performed regularly by fan-favorite actors and comedians such as Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, Busy Philipps, Nathan Fillion, Linda Cardellini, Patton Oswalt, Neil Patrick Harris, and many, many more. And now those serialized characters will come to life on the pages of this hardcover anthology featuring all-new stories from the worlds of the TAH universe by top artists from the comics community! Each stand-alone tale celebrates and reinvigorates a new genre from the radio comedies of yesteryear, including science fiction, fantasy, westerns, superheroes, horror, war dramas, and many more. A unique, timey-wimey blend of silver age pulp and post-modern pop, this one-of-a-kind anthology promises something for everyone as this cult phenomenon jumps off the proscenium stage and onto the page for the first time in over eight years and 100+ consecutive shows around the globe!
"The Thrilling Adventure Hour has become a comedy destination in Hollywood for thrill seekers, adventure lovers, and hour fansJoin the hippest hee-hee-hedonists by getting to know TAH!" - Jane Espenson (writer on such shows as Once Upon a Time, Torchwood, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "Acker and Blacker are comic geniuses and The Thrilling Adventure Hour is one of my favorite things in the world." - Ed Brubaker, award-winning writer of Fatale, Criminal, Gotham Central, and Captain America "Have you ever wished you could gather up the gorgeous geniuses who write and perform The Thrilling Adventure Hour and just shove them in your backpack and take them home and make them perform your favorite sketches over and over and over and over, Misery-style? Well, here's the next best thing. YOU'RE WELCOME." - Patton Oswalt (actor in The King of Queens, Ratatouille, and Young Adult; author of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland)
Ben Acker & Ben Blacker are the creators and writers/producers of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged show in the style of old time radio which is also a podcast on the Nerdist network. In television, they have written for CW's Supernatural, Dreamworks/Netflix's Puss in Boots, and FX's Cassius and Clay. They've also developed original pilots for Fox, USA (twice), Spike, Paramount, Nickelodeon, and other entities. In comics, they've written for Marvel, Dynamite, Boom!, and others. Acker has written for PRI's Wits. Blacker is the creator and host of The Writers Panel, a podcast about the business and process of writing, as well as its spin-off, the Nerdist Comics Panel. He's the producer of Dead Pilots Society, a podcast in which unproduced television pilots by established writers are given the table reads they so richly deserve. Annie Wu is an illustrator currently living in Chicago. She is best known for her work in comics, including DC's Black Canary and Marvel's Hawkeye.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781936393961 |
| ISBN 10 | 1936393964 |
| Title | The Thrilling Adventure Hour |
| Author | Ben Acker |
| Series | Thrilling Adventure Hour Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Boom! Studios |
| Year published | 2013-08-20 |
| Number of pages | 136 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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