Chad Burdette
GUNGNIR, the disruptive new publishing and entertainment venture, today announced the launch of its upcoming comedy series Badd, Gramm-mar, debuting Tuesday, June 30 on YouTube
GUNGNIR is a pioneering publishing house committed to bold, genre-defying storytelling. Inspired by Odin’s legendary spear, GUNGNIR seeks to shatter industry norms and create a sanctuary for the most daring and visionary creators.
With a mission to amplify voices that challenge the status quo, GUNGNIR has become a creative home for world-renowned talent including comedian Bobby Lee (Bad Friends, MADtv), filmmaker Tim Disney, Emmy-nominated writer J. Holtham, and a growing roster of acclaimed authors, screenwriters, artists, and cultural innovators.
From graphic novels to prose, every GUNGNIR release is designed to challenge convention, spark conversation, and resonate across audiences. Every story is a new frontier.
Created by GUNGNIR Founder and Publisher Matthew Medney, the series features appearances from a rotating cast of comedians that include
- Julia Hladkowicz (America’s Got Talent, Comics Unleashed)
- Rama Vallury (Super Pumped, X-Men ’97)
- Raquel Woodruff (This Time)
- Jordan Stidham (The Martian Broadcast)
- Donna Dubrow(Ex Studio Executive, Professionally Unimpressed), as well as
- “Ad-Man” legend Cliff Medney.
Badd, Gramm-mar is a chaotic comedy series about a dysfunctional Los Angeles book club where every week a new book sparks a completely different collision of personalities, perspectives, and worldviews – which inevitably leads to some form of complete emotional meltdown over conflicting opinions regarding the book.
Part review show, part social experiment, and part emotional group therapy disguised as fandom discourse, the series follows a rotating cast of readers, “failed” creatives, intellectuals, romantasy addicts, comic shop lifers, and people still trying to graduate to adulthood.
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Each episode centers around a new “book of the week,” ranging from science fiction epics and romantasy sensations, to literary classics and underground cult favorites, but the conversations quickly spiral far beyond the page. What starts as debates about stories becomes arguments about class, identity, ambition, politics, love, aging, masculinity, feminism, success, failure, and the increasingly unstable state of modern culture itself.
Created by GUNGNIR Founder and Publisher Matthew Medney and panelist Rama Vallury stopped by to chat about the series and more:
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A Book-Club Sitcom That Devolves Into Drama
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Why Smart, Sexy People Read Books
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Why Dungeon Crawler Carl’s Audiobook Narration Is Addicting
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Big Comic Projects: Final Space, 700?Page Graphic Novel
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Why The Publisher Is Named Gungnir — Odin’s Storytelling Spear
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How to Join Our Book Club and Discord
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Five people. One book. Unlimited bad decisions. Mayhem awaits!
Every week, a dysfunctional Los Angeles book club gathers to discuss a new story. What begins as a simple conversation about science fiction, fantasy, comics, literary fiction, or cult classics quickly spirals into arguments about relationships, ambition, identity, politics, success, failure, fandom, and whatever emotional baggage someone accidentally brought to the meeting that day.
- Part review show.
- Part social experiment.
- Part emotional group therapy disguised as a book club.
Featuring comedians, creatives, intellectuals, romantasy addicts, comic shop lifers, and people still trying to figure out adulthood, Badd, Gram-mmar is where stories collide with personalities… and personalities usually lose.
From Fourth Wing and Project Hail Mary to The Ministry of Time, Absolute Batman, and beyond, every episode asks a simple question:
How can five people read the same book and come away with five completely different realities?
Because this was never really about books. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves. And the people willing to argue about them.
Badd, Gramm-mar will air Tuesdays on YouTube
