Overview
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!
Full Product Details
Author: Ben Acker ,
Ben Blacker ,
Various ,
Jeff Stokely
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Imprint: Archaia Studios Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.40cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 28.60cm
Weight: 0.723kg
ISBN: 9781936393961
ISBN 10: 1936393964
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 20 August 2013
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Young adult
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General
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
""The Thrilling Adventure Hour has become a comedy destination in Hollywood for thrill seekers, adventure lovers, and hour fans. Join 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)
The Thrilling Adventure Hour has become a comedy destination in Hollywood for thrill seekers, adventure lovers, and hour fans. Join 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)
"""The Thrilling Adventure Hour has become a comedy destination in Hollywood for thrill seekers, adventure lovers, and hour fans. Join 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)"
Author Information
Ben Acker is best known as the cocreator and writer of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, a monthly comedic variety stage show and podcast in the style of old-timey radio. That would have been enough. Acker has written for television, comic books, and actual radio. Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires is his first book about defeating vampires with the power of storytelling. A Simon & Schuster author.
