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Hi, this is Ben Blacker, creator of the Nerdist Writers panel and the Nerdist Comics panel.

Hey, speaking of comics, did you know that my writing partner, Ben Acker, and I have some thrilling adventure hour comics that you can buy right now.

They are digital only exclusives, issue zero origin stories of Sparks, Nevada, Marshall on Mars, and Beyond Belief.

These are spinoffs of the very popular Nerdist podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour.

They're done by the same art teams that will be doing the image comics that are coming in February.

But I wanted to give you a little sneak

preview and provide a jumping on point for anyone, whether you're familiar with the Thrilling

Adventure Hour or not. These are 10-page comics. You can get them at thrillingadventurehour.com,

click on shop and click on comic books. And pick up these really cool thrilling adventure hour comics.

Sparks Nevada is illustrated by Jay Bone, who is terrific, and Beyond Belief is illustrated by Phil Hester,

who is brilliant.

So check out the two digital only comics.

We don't even know if these will be collected anytime, and they're a great jumping

on point for people who are both familiar and unfamiliar with The thrilling Adventure Hour. They're

just good stories. Listen, not to brag, but comic book resources gave each of them five stars. That's

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