Ben Blacker 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 writen 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. Read More Read Less