There are clothes, books, and rare items from the Rev. At $11, salvation can be nearly anyone’s. K’taden Legume’s proposed “ alien-contacting beacon”-offers tempting perks.

The movie’s Kickstarter-not to be confused with the also recently launched crowdfunding campaign behind SubGenius Dr. Boone, whose late husband, David Boone, directed the 1980 cult film Invasion of the Aluminum People, which might be “ an allegorical testimony for the Church of the SubGenius.” Slacking Towards Bethlehem is almost in the can, Boone says, with poster art by legendary comix artist and SubGenius saint Paul Mavrides (a/k/a Palmer Vreedeez, LIES) to come, but first they have to fund post-production. Crumb, Robert Anton Wilson, DEVO, Frank Zappa and Negativland. The pair “quickly forged a friendship over a shared love of comic books, Captain Beefheart and UFO paperbacks,” in the words of the movie’s press release, before starting a religion that won converts in R. Philo Drummond meeting in mid-Seventies Texas as young weirdos. “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius will tell the story of Rev. And The Book of the SubGenius is still in print.īut a documentary in the works promises to do something new for the Church, namely, to situate its founding and founders in real, actual historical time. The classic SubGenius recruitment movie Arise!, which used to cost 20 whole dollars, is now just as free as an ISKCON book with Ganesha on the cover. Hal no longer splutter from our computer speakers in a pitiable dribble of RealAudio 1.0, but burst forth in full stereo at 64 Kbps, a mighty firehose of Slack. Evangelical radio programs such as Hour of Slack, Puzzling Evidence, and Ask Dr. OSI 74 carries on the Church’s TV ministry. The Church of the SubGenius’ annus mirabilis, 1998, may have come and gone (or it may be yet to come, as some of the faithful believe), but it’s never been easier to hear the word of “Bob.”

Revelation X by SubGenius Foundation