Flopcast episode 189! Happy Holidays from The Flopcast, where we hide our toys inside rubber chickens, so the Burgermeister won’t find them. This week Ed joins us again, to talk about yet another pre-Sponge Awareness Foundation project: his goofy 1989 college band, Wet Paint! We look back on this short-lived
HITLER’S TIME MACHINE By Robert F. Dorr ISBN # 978-0-9863200-0-2 292 pages The fun of any new pulp adventure is you never know exactly what you are going to get. Oh, sure, you can make a few educated guesses based on your knowledge of the author’s history and the book’s
To Holiday Woods, to the Pride Lands of Africa, to the streets of Gotham City, to a worn-out couch in Highland, TX, and Beyond! The 1990’s saw the House of the Mouse nearly dominate the big and small screen with popular content, though a few other studios were able to
Flopcast episode 188! This week we’re joined by a special surprise guest (it was certainly a surprise to Kornflake): Ed, of The Sponge Awareness Foundation! (That’s Kevin’s old comedy band, which you probably knew already, because we’re super-famous.) And we’re talking about 1988, which was the year Ed put together
Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed, start your engines and prepare to blast off! Mike, Mike, Mark Holmes, Joe Harris, and Alan J. Porter rave about the top gear of pop culture. Plus, cartoonist Bill Alger meets the menacing Geek Seat! All this, along with the usual Rants, Raves,
Hell hath no fury like the Doctor scorned! Mike, Mike, Jen, and Mary are joined by animators Alisa Stern and Erin Natal to review the final episode of the ninth series. Unless the prophecy is fulfilled that one of the crew is a half-human, half-puppet hybrid who will destroy the
THE MINISTRY OF THUNDER By Davide Mana Acheron Books 340 pages Shanghai in 1936 is overrun by foreign agents all vying to align themselves with various political factions they believe will survive the coming global conflict and emerge victorious. Amidst this cauldron of intrigue and espionage, Italian mercenary pilot Felice
Flopcast episode 187! Kevin and Kornflake’s ill-conceived trip back through the 80s brings us to 1987! It was the year Debbie Gibson taught us to shake our love — a practice which is illegal in most states these days. Kornflake reminds us of the 1987 debut of the San Francisco-based
Deck the halls with geeky gifts! Mike, Mike, Mary Ogle, and Nunuche Nuchtchas offer suggestions on the perfect present for the podcaster, er…person in your life. Plus, we wrap writer Jordan Alsaqa in the Geek Seat, and Michael Day stops by the station with a Starship Farragut update. All this,
Flopcast episode 186 — this week our excruciating ten-part look at the 80s brings us to 1986! ‘Twas the year we danced on the ceiling, had fun tonight, and were rocked by Amadeus (which explains the headache we’ve had for the last thirty years). Kornflake tells us about the 1986
BANARAK – Storming the Gates By Van Allen Plexico White Rocket Books and 243 pages This is as yet another action packed adventure taking place in the fictional sci-fi mythology created by Van Allen Plexico call The Shattering. In this mythos, mankind exists in a universe made up of three
Good grief! Can you believe that the first Peanuts comic strip was published over 65 years ago? Mike, Mike, and Drew Geraci take a look at the influence that Snoopy and the gang have had on pop culture for more than half a century. We also chat with Archie artists
