Good ol' fashioned fun

For those of you who haven't heard about it yet, there's a new episodic web serial coming.

The Mercury Men

The black and white serial looks like it will borrow heavily from the pulp genre, with ray guns and evil aliens who shoot lightening from their hands. The production reminds me of The Fanimatrix, but with more of an effects budget.

Here's a quick synopsis of the series from the associated Facebook page:
"Edward Borman, a lowly government office drone, finds himself caught in a nefarious interplanetary plot when deadly invaders seize his office building as a staging ground for the destruction of Earth. Aided by a daring aerospace engineer from a mysterious organization known as “The League,” Edward must stop the invaders and their doomsday device, the Gravity Engine."