PREVIEW - #116 - Comic Conned

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 5:41 p.m.

PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116-comic-conned-29365538\n\n"Nerd culture" is everywhere. Have the nerds won? Or have they merely been co-opted? We look for answers in Morgan Spurlock's puff-piece documentary COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN'S HOPE (2011), which struggles to position San Diego Comic Con as a grassroots phenomenon. Find out the surprising connection between corporate fan culture and the Democratic primaries! PLUS: we discuss the most dangerous person of our time... Susan Sarandon?