Episode 36: Scott Pilgrim and Something Terrible

Hipstering it up around here

Nick and Brock didn’t exactly take a hiatus, Brock decided to be a little bitch and not record a comic book podcast while he was on vacation on some tropical island. Nick tried to get a chimp to stand in for him, but it turns out that you can’t just go buy one.

Before Brock returned to recording, he decided to do something useful and report on Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Nick didn’t go anywhere remotely tropical, but he did go to Wondercon.

Unlike Winter Soldier, Scott Pilgrim did not do nearly as well at the box office, but this week we look at the much longer comic series. What can make Nick and Brock interested in reading about hipsters? Can good writing overcome just about any prejudice about a subject? Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim has a style of its own and definitely trapped Brock into reading the whole thing and Nick read a few volumes as well (each volume is over 100 pages).

The second review of this week is a bit different from the normal CCCP review. Something Terrible is a real story about the molestation of writer and artist Dean Trippe when he was a child, how it affected his life, and how he overcame this trauma. No real room for jokes here, but just something everyone should read.