Ben Acker

Ben Acker

Ben Acker and Ben Blacker are the creators and writers and producers of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged show in the style of old-time radio, and which is also a podcast on the Nerdist network. In television, they have written for the CW’s Supernatural, Dreamworks/Netflix’s The Adventures of Puss in Boots, and FX’s Cassius and Clay. They’ve also developed original pilots for Fox, USA, Spike, Paramount, Nickelodeon, and others. In comics, they’ve written for Marvel, Dynamite, Boom!, and others. Acker has written for Public Radio International’s Wits. Blacker is the creator and host of The Writers Panel, a podcast about the business and process of writing, as well as its spin-off, the Nerdist Comics Panel. He’s the producer of Dead Pilots Society, a podcast in which unproduced television pilots by established writers are given the table reads they so richly deserve.

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Star Wars Join the Resistance, Books 1-3
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Star Wars Join the Resistance, Books 1-3
  • By: Ben Acker
  • Narrator: Bradford Hastings
  • Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
Join the Resistance (Book 1) IF BEING A HERO WERE EASY, EVERYBODY WOULD BE ONE. MATTIS BANZ knows that he’s meant to be a hero of the galaxy like the legendary Luke Skywalker, and when General Leia Organa’s Resistance recruits him to... Read more

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