Red Panda Adventures

Red Panda Adventures

The Red Panda Adventures is a lighthearted radio drama series in the style of old time radio that follows the 1930s adventures of "Canada's greatest superhero", the Red Panda, and his trusty sidekick, that "fearless fighting female", the Flying Squirrel, as they protect the citizens of Toronto, Ontario from villains ranging from gangsters and supervillains to the supernatural forces of darkness.

The series was created by Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre and earned the company multiple Podcast Award and Parsec Award nominations. In 2010 the series won the Parsec Award for excellence in Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form), and earned Decoder Ring Theatre the Podcast Award for best podcast in the Cultural/Arts Category.[1] The series has spawned a series of novels written within continuity and in the style of the classic pulp fiction stories of the 1930s and 1940s. The Tales of the Red Panda books includes the 2011 winner of the Pulp Ark Award for best New Pulp Fiction Novel, Tales of the Red Panda: The Android Assassins.[2] Decoder Ring Theatre was profiled on the BBC Television program "Click" in February 2011,[3] leading to new exposure for the Red Panda Adventures in the UK. The radio drama series also inspired a spin-off series of comic book adventures published digitally by MonkeyBrain Comics, and collected in trade paperback edition by IDW Publishing.[4] The comic books, written by series author Gregg Taylor and illustrated by artist Dean Kotz have been highly praised by industry media outlets such as Comic Book Resources[5] and Bleeding Cool.[6] Both the audio drama and comic series have been featured in the Toronto Star,[7] and the Television program "Innerspace" on Space, the Imagination Station [8]

  1. ^ "2010 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  2. ^ "PULP ARK 2011 AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED!". ALL PULP. 28 February 2011. Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  3. ^ "BBC Click". BBC TV. 18 February 2011. Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  4. ^ "IDW Red Panda Trade Paperback". IDW Publishing. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  5. ^ "CBR Review by Ryan K Lindsay". Comic Book Resources. 27 February 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Six Strikes of the Red Panda". Bleeding Cool. 29 March 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Meet Red Panda, Toronto's Newest Masked Avenger". Toronto Star. 16 February 2014. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Red Panda Feature on Innerspace". Space. 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019.