Nick Hemsing

Episode 26: Wanted and The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Nick Hemsing
December 11, 2013

In this week’s comic book podcast, we’re back after a brief holiday hiatus to announce we are going on another brief holiday hiatus! Our end of the year projects are stacking up so this will be the last CCCP podcast of 2013. We’re messing with the format to try to talk about more webcomics, so this episode is the first of that new focus. First up, we talk a little about the relationship between comics and the movies they spawn. Does the movie sell the comic book? This conversation might be related to Wanted, Mark Millar’s all supervillain 6 issue... View Article

Episode 25: Saga and The New Deadwardians

Nick Hemsing
November 13, 2013

More Image and Edwardian London Zombies In this week’s comic book podcast, we thought we were going easy on ourselves this week with Saga from Image. Multi-Award winning, beautiful cover art, a magic Sci-Fi sandwich… I think we surprised ourselves with how many criticisms we walked away with. I’m interested to see if anyone else agrees with our opinions. Before we take the book to task, we intro’d an upcoming segment called Unflattering Comic Book History. We’ll be having some fun with the books that any publisher would want to disappear as badly as Lucas wants to kill every copy... View Article

Episode 24: Shattered with Curve of Horn

Nick Hemsing
November 4, 2013

Interviews, Minotaurs, and… Wait, interviews? In the CCCP comic book podcast, we’re nearing the quarter century mark. Our podcast is old enough to drink, rent a car, and host its first interview. We have a special for you this week, one comic and one creator. We reviewed the soon-to-be-printed webcomic Shattered with Curve of Horn and interview its creator, Max Miller Dowdle. We delve into his Kickstarter campaign, how he went from fine artist to comic creator, and why he went with a long-form story with Shattered. The only thing we forgot to ask was how we are supposed to... View Article

Episode 23: Powers and PAX Arena

Nick Hemsing
October 28, 2013

Superheroes, Why We Podcast, and Sci-Fi Thunderdomes In this week’s comic book podcast, Nick and Brock discuss why they started the podcast, what they think of the first 22 episodes, and where they see the podcast going in the near and not-so-near future. And, for the first time since Before Watchmen, we read a superhero-based book with a twist, Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. What will we think of a book that takes an outsider-looking-in perspective on the superhero genre? Given that the book has been running for over a decade across two publishers, we started... View Article

Episode 22: The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born and Phonogram

Nick Hemsing
October 21, 2013

Two Fanboys Enter, One Leaves… Disappointed Before we start talking about this week’s comic book podcast, let’s get this out of the way: Nick is a big Stephen King fan. In the early days of the podcast, you may remember him fangasming over the Locke & Key series from Joe Hill, King’s son. Now he goes all in with The Dark Tower comics from Marvel. Because the source material isn’t getting a TV show or movie anytime soon, let’s see if the comic does it justice. Brock got to pick this week’s single issue review and he figured he’d take... View Article

Episode 21: The Tick and Black Powder

Nick Hemsing
October 14, 2013

Big Blue Superheroes and Terrible, Awful, Icky Pirates You wanted some superhero, you got some superhero… But in this week’s comic book podcast, you get it the way we like it: blue, antennae’d, and amazed he has pockets. Welcome to the world of Ben Edlund’s creation, The Tick. Nick reads the comic for the first time while Brock happily reads it for the eleventeenth time. I picked our single issue this week and I think Brock wants to ban me from doing so again. We had a little bit of an odd experience this issue as we looked at Black... View Article