Episodes

Thursday Jan 07, 2016
White Rocket 086: The Daredevil Panel at DragonCon 2015
Thursday Jan 07, 2016
Thursday Jan 07, 2016

Friday Jun 12, 2015
White Rocket 070: Superhero Smackdown at MidSouthCon
Friday Jun 12, 2015
Friday Jun 12, 2015
Presenting "Superhero Smackdown" live at MidSouthCon in Memphis in March of 2015.

Sunday May 03, 2015
White Rocket 067: Avengers: Age of Ultron--INSTANT REACTION (Spoilers!!)
Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
Massive SPOILER warning this episode! Jim Yelton joins Van to give instant feedback upon seeing AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. (Van saw it twice already--and took lots of notes!) Don't listen until you've watched the movie!!

Friday Jan 09, 2015
White Rocket 054: Avengers Assemble!
Friday Jan 09, 2015
Friday Jan 09, 2015
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the AvengersAssemble.net web site, founded by Van in 1995. To celebrate, this week he's joined by David Wright and Kell Carpenter to discuss the greatest Avengers heroes, villains, storylines, and much more.
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Friday Sep 05, 2014
White Rocket 048: Andrew Gaska on Space: 1999 at DragonCon
Friday Sep 05, 2014
Friday Sep 05, 2014
This week we present the first of several episodes recorded live at DragonCon 2014 in Atlanta. Here Andrew E. C. Gaska, writer and creative force behind the new SPACE: 1999 graphic novels from Archaia, talks about the show and about the new books with host Van Allen Plexico. Recorded live on the American SF Classics track at DragonCon.

Tuesday Aug 05, 2014
White Rocket 046: Guardians of the Galaxy Roundtable (Spoilers!!)
Tuesday Aug 05, 2014
Tuesday Aug 05, 2014
Van Allen Plexico is joined by Ralph Angelo, Jr, and James Hickson for a roundtable, spoiler-filled review of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Thursday Jul 31, 2014
White Rocket 044: Cosmic Marvel & Guardians of the Galaxy
Thursday Jul 31, 2014
Thursday Jul 31, 2014
This week, Midnight Entertainment's Jim Yelton returns to discuss the COSMIC side of the Marvel Universe and to peek ahead at the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Friday May 16, 2014
White Rocket 042: Writing Influences & The Shattering
Friday May 16, 2014
Friday May 16, 2014
This week Van flies solo, discussing many of the influences on his writing over the years, and particularly how they impacted the writing of his new SF series, "The Shattering," beginning with the award-finalist novel LEGION I: LORDS OF FIRE.

Tuesday Jul 23, 2013
White Rocket 033: Adventures with Barry Reese
Tuesday Jul 23, 2013
Tuesday Jul 23, 2013
New Pulp/adventure fiction author Barry Reese comes aboard the show this week to discuss his many works and the various books, comics and more that have influenced them. It's an hour of entertaining conversation with the author of the Rook, Gravedigger and Lazarus Gray, among other great characters.

Tuesday Jul 02, 2013
White Rocket 030: Jack King Kirby
Tuesday Jul 02, 2013
Tuesday Jul 02, 2013
The topic this week is the "King of Comics," the one and only Jack Kirby--writer, artist, and creator or co-creator of half the Marvel Universe and a good chunk of DC, too, to name but a few things. Van is joined by a fellow longtime Kirby fan and old friend, John Quiring, to discuss the life and work of this legend of comics and beyond.

