Prisoners Of Gravity Now Available Online

Posted by Nutellaface on Aug 25, 2011 in Comics | 0 comments

TVO, I love you! I remember this show from when I was a youngster. I used to watch it all the time and now it’s online for free. The other cool thing about the show is that the montage at the beginning is drawn by none other than Canada’s own Ty Templeton.

I took Ty’s class at the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop and I would highly recommend anyone that has an interest in story telling, drawing and sequential art to check it out. He is an encyclopaedia of knowledge and has a great sense of humour as well.

Prisoners of Gravity, the acclaimed comic book and science fiction news magazine series, is not television. It’s the world’s orbital oracle. It’s the future now. Trapped in geosynchronous orbit, unable to escape the planet he’s convinced is hurtling toward self-destuction, Commander Rick (Rick Green) commandeers the airwaves to transmit his weekly pirate broadcasts. Assisted by his on-board computer assistant Nan-Cy (his trusty NANo-CYbernetic 3000 computer) aboard the Reality-1 Communications Satellite, Commander Rick explores crucial issues of the late twentieth century in the language of the faithful: science fiction, comics, computers, fantasy, and horror, all respectfully recognized in the series as adult art forms. He interviews these genres’ writers, artists, and filmmakers, focusing on a different theme in each program: politics, war, fears, dreams, addictions, children, new worlds, and even the current popularity of dinosaurs.

Guest included Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Harlan Ellison, Anne Rice, Frederik Pohl, Clive Barker, David Brin, Charles de Lint, Robert J. Sawyer, Spider Robinson and Terry Pratchett, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Bob Kane, Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Scott McCloud, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Gene Roddenberry, Michael Dorn, James Cameron and David Cronenberg.

Check it out!