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Welcome to the alternately awful and bitchin' world of the Awesomelys!


Our schedule for 2026 right now only includes Phoenix Fan Fusion, but we'll be back there with five new panels, Awesomely Awful panels for the eighties, nineties and noughties, plus our usual Awesomely Bitchin' panel and another Awesomely Awful Video Games panel.

We'll be in North 223 for all five panels:
FRI 7:30pm - Awesomely Awful '80s XI: The Decade That Keeps on Giving
FRI 9:00pm - Awesomely Bitchin' VIII: Trained to Kill
SAT 1:30pm -Awesomely Awful Video Games III: Ragnarok
SAT 7:30pm - Awesomely Awful '90s in Viva Rock Phoenix
SAT 9:00pm - Awesomely Awful '00s II: 2 Awesome 2 Awful



Also look out for the book, The Awesomely Awful '80s: Part Two by Hal C. F. Astell, which was launched at Phoenix Fan Fusion 2019. In keeping with the mindset of our panels, I have fun with five films from each year of the second half of the '80s.

Now available from Apocalypse Later Press at Amazon and all other usual locations!

Hints as to the selections can be found for some of the selections in the wraparound cover below. Art is by April Reyna. Graphic design is by Jason Drotman.



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Click on the Program Guide covers to check out what we've presented at each of these events:



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Last update: 1st April, 2026