We're bringing joy to Dragon Con's Sci-Fi Classic Track this Labor Day Weekend! That's right! The Dragon Con Sci-Fi Classic Track salutes G.I. JOE with experts and writers from the very fun new book, The Joy of Joe: Memories of America's Movable Fighting Man from Today's Grown-Up Kids on a panel at this year's con. Time and date to be announced. This panel will feature editor Jim Beard as well as some Classic Track Irregulars who contributed to the book like Dave West (the Phantom Troublemaker), Bobby Nash, James Palmer, plus Retroblasting and more! It'll be fun!
If you're interested in checking out The Joy of Joe before the con, you can buy it HERE.
Here's a panel I was part of at Dragon Con 2015. Van Plexico recorded it for this White Rocket Podcast. Give it a listen here. Bobby
Van is joined by a cast of luminaries from DragonCon 2015's American SF Classics panel to discuss the great Eighties animated series, Thundarr the Barbarian!
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Our Critical Assignment series takes a look at a panel on the 40th anniversary of the premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man on ABC. In this panel, John moderates with Cyborgs pal and bionic merchandising guru Matt Hankinson, RevCast host and Dragon Con American Sci-Fi
Classics Track moderator Gary Mitchel, and writer and Earth Station One Podcast host Bobby Nash, a discussion on the pilot movie, Lee Major's acting chops in the series, the merchandising of the series, plus a whole lot more. The panel took place at this year's Dragon Con in Atlanta. — with Paul K. Bisson, AP Downey, Susan Drew, Bobby Nash, Rod De Luca Jr., Matt Hankinson, John S. Drew and Gary Mitchel.
“The twenty-first century. Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth... the ocean. As Captain of the seaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians. For beneath the surface... lies the future.”
From The Phantom Troublemaker’s show notes:
Finally, I was on a GI Joe panel, too. This is the one I was the most excited about because GI Joe was my big childhood thing. The cartoons, the comics, the toys. All of it. I don’t think there is another franchise that I have embraced as fully except for maybe Doctor Who (it’s a close race between Doctor Who, GI Joe, and Star Wars).
I had a truly elite special mission force for this one – Gary Mitchel, ESO’s own Award Winning Bobby Nash, and my pal Gnoll; a virtual repository of 80s information. We had a great time talking A Real
As audience sings G.I. Joe theme song
American Hero, but what made this panel so great was the audience. The room was absolutely packed – standing room only – and the audience was so good I’m actually a little worried it’s the best I’ll ever see. We had people in costumes and everybody was excited to participate. It was amazing.
And now, through the magic of computering, you too can take part! Listen now as we visit the Hall of Heroes to look back on America’s
