Some of your Thrilling Adventure Hour pals will be at San Diego Comic-Con this week! Schedule below.
Please stop by the Boom booth (ideally, Thursday between 2-3pm) and pick up both TAH: A Spirited Romance, collecting for the first time the previously published Image Comics “Beyond Belief” series and origin issue #0 by Acker & Blacker and Phil Hester, and TAH #1, featuring an all new “Beyond Belief” series illustrated by MJ Erickson. Above is the SDCC exclusive variant cover for TAH #1 featuring the cross-over you thought you’d never see! (Crossover does not appear in the story).
Both of these books are available in comic shops this Wednesday.
In October, TAH: A Spirited Romance will be published in a fancy collector’s edition with extras, including an annotated script of issue #0.
THURSDAY:
2-3pm: Signing at Boom Studios booth #2229 with Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, and Hal Lublin.
4:45-5:45pm, Ballroom 20: “The Great Debates” with Janet Varney, Aisha Tyler, Felicia Day(Mystery Science Theater 3000),Joe Manganiello(Rampage),Adam Savage(MythBusters),Orlando Jones(American Gods), and John Barrowman(Torchwood).
FRIDAY:
5-6pm, Room 23ABC: “Pop Culture Witches” panel. Ben Blacker discusses his new Vertigo Comics series, HEX WIVES (out 10/31) with Nell Scovell, creator of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV show from the 90s; Jessica O'Toole & Amy Rardin, the creators and showrunners of the CW’s Charmedreboot;Ruth Connell who has played the witch “Rowena” onmany episodes of Supernatural;Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone; andJuliana Crouch, who is an actual practicing witch.
6-7pm, Room 23ABC: DC/Vertigo panel with Hex WivescreatorBen Blacker and artist Mirka Andolfo; video game developer and programmer Zoe Quinn(Goddess Mode); Nine Inch Nails art director Rob Sheridan(High Level); writers Bryan Hill(American Carnage) and Eric Esquivel(Border Town); and more!
7:30pm, Observatory North Park: Adventure Zone Q&A and reading with Hal Lublin,Travis McElroy, and more. Ticketed event (sold out)
SATURDAY
1-2pm, Room 7AB:Stan Against Evil season 3 panel with Janet Varney,Dana Gould, John C. McGinley, Deborah Baker, Jr.,and Nate Mooney.
5-6pm, Grand 1&2, Marriott Marquis: Don’t Go Broke Collecting panel with Hal Lublin,Joseph Gordon (Into the Wormhole: A Star Trek Podcast), Vince Moore (Total Recall: Life on Mars; former comics retailer), and more.
SUNDAY:
10-11am, Grand 1&2 Marriott Marquis: Nerd for a Living panel with Travis McElroy (The Adventure Zone; My Brother, My Brother and Me), Susan Eisenberg (voice of Wonder Woman in Justice LeagueandJustice League: Unlimited),Tomi Adeyemi (author of Children of Blood and Bone), and more! We’ll talk about how to turn your passion into $$$.
Jenny Slate(Obvious Child; Bob’s Burgers) and composer Michael Giacchino(Rogue One; Inside Out) #JoinTheResistance on March 8 in a benefit for Public Counsel, providing pro bono law services to LA’s underserved communities.
The second issue of Acker & Blacker’s Deadpool v Gambit is out today! Do check it out if you like cons, fights, and Thrilling Adventure Hour easter eggs!
Buy it from your local comic book store or via Comixology.
Throwback to March 2014. Acker & Blacker’s break of what would become “Straight on til Mourning” (performed first in December 2015 at Largo and again January 2016 at SF Sketchfest).
We referred to “Corey Slightly Sr” as “Offerman” because we initially wrote it for Nick to play (also with the idea that Megan Mullally would play the Poppins). Marc McConville and Joshua Malina played Slightly at Largo and SFSF (respectively) and Busy Philipps played the Poppins both times. All were brilliant, as always happens. We write something with an actor in mind and then someone comes in and shows us how it ought to be played.
This episode had a pretty long gestation. Acker had the idea of a Poppins monster not too long after the Pan episode, but we never quite got to the story for one reason or another. Then, when we finally broke the story, we knew we wanted Paul & Storm to write the songs; it was over a year before we could make that happen. We’re glad we waited. It’s one of our favorite episodes.
