Tagged: Van Allen Plexico
WHITE ROCKET PODCASTS TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: THE SEQUEL
This week on the White Rocket Podcast, a part of the Earth Station One Network, New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico is joined by writer/publisher/director Jim Yelton for part 2 of their exploration of Marvel’s movies, past-present-future. Van and Jim also look at what DC is doing (and should be doing). It’s a fun show.
This and all previous episodes are available on iTunes (Search “White Rocket Podcast”) or at http://www.whiterocketbooks.com
Next week, Van is joined by Mark Finn (author of BLOOD AND THUNDER: THE LIFE AND ART OF ROBERT E HOWARD) to talk about Richard Stark’s violent world of PARKER!
Episode 7 of The White Rocket Podcast is now available on Podbean, iTunes, via the Podcast app on iPhone/iPad, or you can use the mini-player at the White Rocket site.
Listen to Part 1 of this conversation here.
BLACKTHORN ORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY– 99 CENT SPECIAL!
Art: James Burns |
Art: Chris Kohler |
For a limited time only, you can get the BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS anthology from White Rocket Books for just 99 cents on your Kindle!
Sorcery & science battle on future Mars!
Winner of “Best New Character of the Year” at PulpArk 2012, Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars features stories by Bobby Nash, Sean Taylor, Mark Bousquet, Ian Watson, James Palmer, Joe Crowe, and Van Allen Plexico with interior illustrations by Chris Kohler under a cover by James Burns.
Art: James Burns |
Get your $0.99 Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars ebook here.
This special price is for a limited time only so don’t delay!
ABOUT BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS:
Betrayed and left for dead on the battlefield, US Army General John Blackthorn awakens many thousands of years later to find himself trapped amidst the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Mars, his only companions a savage Mock-Man and a mysterious sorceress.
Their war to free this strange new world from oppression won’t be easy: Arrayed against them are the four tyrannical First Men–masters of magic and technology alike–the dreaded Sorcerers of Mars!
Art: Chris Kohler |
“Original, entertaining, action-packed!” –Wayne Reinagel, author of the Pulp Heroes and Modern Marvels novels.
In the spirit of “Thundarr the Barbarian” and “John Carter of Mars,” Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars is action and adventure as General Blackthorn and his companions battle the tyrannical Sorcerers of Mars!
Get your $0.99 Blackthorn: Thunder on Mars ebook here.
Also available in paperback here.
WHITE ROCKET PODCASTS TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Marvel’s The Avengers |
On this week’s episode of the White Rocket Podcast (part of the ESO Network!), host Van Allen Plexico is joined by writer/director/publisher Jim Yelton to talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Van and Jim start with the really bad Marvel stuff from back in the day and explore how they came from those humble beginnings to dominate superhero movies today.
Episode 6 of The White Rocket Podcast is now available on Podbean, iTunes, via the Podcast app on iPhone/iPad, or you can use the mini-player at the White Rocket site.
JEFF DEISCHER BRINGS THE GOLDEN AGE TO THE BOOK CAVE
New Pulp Author Jeff Deischer returns to The Book Cave to chat about his newest mind blowing novel, The Golden Age. If you are as big a fan of the Golden Age comic book characters as Ric is, you will love this novel.
Learn more about The Golden Age here and here.
Listen to The Book Cave Episode 207: The Golden Age now at http://thebookcave.libsyn.com/the-book-cave-episode-207-the-golden-age.
WHITE ROCKET LAUNCHES METALGOD, A NEW SENTINELS ADVENTURE
Cover Art: Chris Kohler. Colors: Sarah White |
White Rocket Books has shared a sneak preview of the wraparound cover for the upcoming release, SENTINELS Vol. 7: METALGOD, a novel by New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico.
The Metalgod cover is pencilled and inked by longtime Sentinels interior artist, Chris Kohler (Metalgod marks his first cover art for the series) with color art by Sarah White (her Sentinels debut). Design work is by Van Allen Plexico. You can view the full cover above as well as here.
“The design and cover logo are slightly different from previous books,” said Plexico of the cover. “I figured the first volume in a new arc was the best time to try a somewhat different look.”
Sentinels Vol. 7: Metalgod will be on sale in early December in paperback and Kindle from White Rocket Books.
JAMES BOND 007 IN WHITE ROCKET
JAMES BOND 007 is the subject of this week’s White Rocket Podcast, as New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico is joined by David Medinnus to discuss everything from the Ian Fleming novels to the movies, from Connery through Craig. (There are no spoilers for the new film!)
Now available via iTunes or at http://www.whiterocketbooks.com.
WHITE ROCKET LOOKS AT SUPERHEROES IN NOVELS AND BEYOND
On this week’s episode of the White Rocket Podcast (now part of the ESO Network), Author Van Allen Plexico is joined by his longtime friend and collaborative partner, Robert J. Politte for a wide-ranging discussion of superheroes in various media–especially including the new and growing field of independent superhero novels. They also discuss influences from their favorite comic book stories and creators of the past. Find The white Rocket Podcast episode 3 on iTunes or at: http://whiterocket.podbean.com/
Plus, Van introduces the White Rocket Podcast on episode 136 of the Earth Station One podcast this week.
A WHITE ROCKET AND A DARK TOWER!
Just in time for Halloween— New Pulp author and artist David Wright visits The White Rocket Podcast to talk about Stephen King’s epic THE DARK TOWER saga with host, New Pulp author Van Allen Plexico.
Spoilers aplenty! Van and David talk about every book and even dig into the ending of the whole story– what it really meant, and how they feel about it. You can listen now at www.whiterocketbooks.com/wrpodcast.
Note: This is the last episode of The White Rocket Podcast before it officially joins Earth Station One‘s ESO Network of shows.
VAN PLEXICO’S SENTINELS TRILOGY “THE RIVALS” COLLECTED
Cover Art: Mitch Foust |
White Rocket Books has collected New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico’s second trilogy in the saga of The Sentinels in an omnibus edition. Sentinels: The Rivals: Omnibus 2 is authored by Van Allen Plexico with illustrations by Chris Kohler.
About Sentinels: The Rivals:
The Sentinels and their oldest enemies must band together as four Great Rivals–cosmic beings of unimaginable power, to whom humans are but insects–renew their ancient war high above the Earth.
But even as our heroes and their foes all rush into space in a hopeless effort to drive away these malevolent menaces, new clues to the origins of Ultraa and Vanadium emerge–revelations that will rock the team to its foundations, and challenge everything we thought we knew about the SENTINELS!
This second omnibus volume contains all three novels in the “Rivals” trilogy, including The Shiva Advent, Worldmind, and the PulpArk “Novel of the Year” nominee, Stellarax, along with all fifteen of Chris Kohler’s mind-blowing interior illustrations and a new painted cover by artist extraordinaire Mitch Foust.
It’s more than 700 pages of cosmic superhero action–continuing the greatest superhero novel saga of them all–from the author Pulp Fiction Reviews calls “The Master of Space Opera!”
Sentinels: The Rivals is now available in trade paperback via Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/Sentinels-The-Rivals-Omnibus-2/dp/0984139273 and at CreateSpace at www.createspace.com/3772075 .
Original series co-plotter Bobby Politte will be joining Van Allen Plexico on an upcoming episode of the White Rocket Podcast to discuss their influences in creating the characters and the series.