BrokenSea Audio Productions’ “Jake Sampson: Monster Hunter” series is excellent, but provides me with a challenge. Being a series of 4 and 5 part serials, it makes it very tough to choose a favorite episode. The best solution I could come up with is to share my favorite story-arc.
The series is a pulp inspired 1930s adventure show starring Mark Kalita as Jake Sampson. Kalita could be called online audio drama’s answer to William Conrad. His voice is completely different, but his body of work must rival Conrad’s OTR appearances. Sampson is joined on his adventures by pilot Texas Holdem and former lion tamer Lucy Carter. The show incorperates historical figures, such as authors Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, along with fictional characters like John Carter and Fu Manchu. All of these elements exist in the same pulp-tastic universe.
“Gods of War” is the fifth Jake Sampson story, and my favorite. This story was written by Bill Hollweg, who always sounds like he’s having the time of his life in the role of Texas Holdem. Throw together Winston Churchill, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fu Manchu and Barsoom, and you have a pulp adventure like no other. I hope you listen to it all, and enjoy it as much as I do.
JAKE SAMPSON: MONSTER HUNTER
“The Gods of War” (parts 1-5)
2011
Cast: Mark Kalita, Bill Hollweg, Natasha Lathrop, David Sobkowiak, Paul Mannering, Elie Hirschman, Chris Williams, Matt Weller, Joe Stofko, Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard, Gareth Preston, Chris Barnes, Perry Whittle, Glen Witco Sheetz, Garry Cobbum, Carl Woods, Jack Ward, Alan Sobkowiak, Stevie Farnaby, Paetar Frandsen, David Drage
Writer: Bill Hollweg
Producer: Bill Hollweg
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