Debuted on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” Tek Jansen is the star of a self-published science fiction novel authored by host Stephen Colbert and titled “Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure.” Created in humorous response to rival commentator Bill O’Reilly’s dubious novel “Those Who Trespass,” Colbert claimed his “Tek Jansen” book was rejected by twenty publishers. What soon followed on the show was a six-episode series of animated shorts featuring the character in many adventures and battles with his arch-nemesis, Thurmond Chang, accompanied by Porpy the space porpoise. A wish-fulfillment character of the most obvious kind, Jansen is a dramatically idealized version of Colbert himself (who also voices the hero in the animated shorts) and is a kind of sci-fi James Bond who is said to have made love to hundreds and hundreds of women.
I talked with one of my favorite writers, Tom Peyer last week about his Harvey-nominated adaptation of Stephen Colbert’s unpublished science fiction spy character, Tek Jansen. Peyer, writer of the only series I subscribed to my freshman year of college, (”Hourman,”) is someone I’ve been wanting to talk to for a long time. In prepping for the interview he and I talked on many occasions about his love for the Yankees, to which he blogs about here. A very fun and interesting guy, and someone who honestly should get more work on the comics sphere.
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