Dave and Chris take a look back across our reviews from 2018 and give various awards. Check out news and reviews on comic books and comic book movies at www.thecomicsbolt.com! #BoltUpOnComics#BoltUpOnMovies And also check out some of the other independent British Podcasts across at www.britpodscene.com, including the guys over at Comedy Geek Podcast - https://bit.ly/2yTgtyf #britpodscene Support the show with our Amazon link . UK listener? You could try out a free 30 day Audible trial and and tr...
Jan 04, 2019•40 min
This weeks review is of the newly released Bumblebee (2018). Chris and Dave have a lot of fun reviewing this brilliant film. Without doubt the best in the Transformers universe. Plot Sumamary: When Bumblebee is sent to Earth to establish a base for the Autobots , he finds himself hunted by both Sector Seven and the Decepticons . With his memory and voice lost in battle, he is found by Charlie Watson , a young woman in search of a direction in life. The pair work together to try to discover who B...
Dec 23, 2018•1 hr 27 min
The much anticipated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated movie is our choice for this episode and we just couldn't wait to release the episode! This movie is set in a multiverse known as the Spider-Verse and introduces the movie going public to an array of Spider People who operate as super-heros in their own universes. But are now brought together by the infamous Kingpin! Here what we thought of the movie. Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 95% IMDB Score: 8.8 Metacritic: 87 This episode of...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 11 min
For our landmark 50th episode we thought we'd go back to the 3rd installment of the Christopher Reeve Superman series. We also have joining us artist and friend of the show Mike Lee-Graham. We all had fond and nostalgic memories on this movie, but how does it stand up today? You can find Mike on Twitter . And also check out his MMA comic Average Joe which he mentions at the end of the show. And unfortunately for this show milestone, Loki the nordic god of mischief had cast a spell and forced it ...
Dec 16, 2018•2 hr 19 min
This weeks episode we review the 2018 Marvel Movie Venom starring our man crush Tom Hardy. Chris is back from Vegas so the A-team are back together. Film Summary: When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life. Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 28% IMDB Score: 6.9 We also discuss the critics poor review scores and how the audience actually love it. 83% popularity score from the cinema goers. This episode of the podcast is sponsore...
Dec 09, 2018•1 hr 35 min
In 2008, this Batman: Gotham Knight animated feature was billed as an anthology which would bridge the gap between Batman Begins and Dark Knight. Very much with an approach which was successful for the Animatrix, based on the Matrix franchise, the stories used various anime styles. But what did we make of this one? Special guest and Comics in Motion artist, Dan Brooks. You can find Dan's work on his Instagram page . Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 83% IMDB Score: 6.8 Check out news and reviews o...
Dec 02, 2018•2 hr 9 min
Suicide Squad was a different type of superhero movie where criminals are forced to work under the government's control. The concept had a lot of promise and the movie had a bit more humour than recent DC efforts. But did this result in a better movie overall? Joining us as a special guest we have Martine Johannesen-Berg who is a regular cosplayer on the London comic con scene. You can find here on Instagram here . Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 60% IMDB Score: 6.1 Check out news and reviews on...
Nov 25, 2018•2 hr 15 min
Eleven years before the 2005 Fantastic Four movie, there was a low budget project to make a movie which was never released, and it appears was never meant to be released. The Neue Constantin production company had held the rights to make the Fantastic Four movie for a decade but hadn't found the budget to make one, and the rights were going to revert back to Marvel. Roger Corman, a Producer who specialises in making low-budget movies, was brought on board and set about making a movie and as far ...
Nov 18, 2018•1 hr 28 min
This week we review Marvel's Daredevil Season 3, episodes 7 to 13. Is this the best Netflix Marvel series yet? Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% IMDB Score: 8.7 Check out news and reviews on comic books and comic book movies at www.thecomicsbolt.com! Including a review of the comic series: The Dark Lord of The Sith Attacks in Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader’s Castle #5! https://bit.ly/2zuYBJp #BoltUpOnComics#BoltUpOnMovies And also check out some of the other independant British Podcasts across ...
Nov 11, 2018•1 hr 58 min
This week we review Marvel's Daredevil Season 3. The third season of the American web television series Daredevil , which is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name , follows Matt Murdock / Daredevil, a blind lawyer-by-day who fights crime at night. When Wilson Fisk is released from prison, Murdock must decide between hiding from the world or embracing his life as a hero vigilante. There are SPOILERS So if you haven't seen the movie please go see it and then come back for the revie...
Nov 04, 2018•1 hr 48 min
Halloween is set to be a direct sequel to the iconic 1978 Carpenter classic, and we'll treat as an X-Men style alternative timeline. We're joined in the show by one half of the creative team for 'Our Final Halloween', Michael Lee-Graham. Surely there can't be any comic books related to the Halloween franchise? Get behind the Our Final Halloween Kickstarter on: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1668205146/our-final-halloween-a-one-shot-digital-horror-comi Review Scores: Rotten Tomatoes: 79% IM...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 57 min
Spawn was huge in the 1990's, created by Todd McFarlane and first making his comics debut in 1992 as part of the Image Comics revolution. The Spawn movie was released in 1997 and after it's original R-rating, was toned down to a PG-13. With much promise and hype around the movie, and also one of the first superhero movies to cast a black leading man, we take a walk through and see how this one stands up today. Review Scores: Rotten Tomatoes: 18% IMDB: 5.2 There are SPOILERS So if you havent seen...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 28 min
This weeks episode Chris is joined by friend of the show Jaime Selice. Jaime is the creator of Nightwing and Batgirl: Year One - here is the link to her fantasic work - https://bit.ly/2NGioL8 Please follow Jaime on twitter and giver her work the support she deserves https://twitter.com/jdimaria124?lang=en This week we review the Second in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy: The Dark Knight (2008) Dark Knight: When the menace known as the Joker emerges from his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc ...
Oct 13, 2018•1 hr 9 min
We are joined in this bonus episode of the podcast by Comic Creators Mike Garley and Mike Lee-Graham (MLG) they discuss their Kickstarter project: Our Final Halloween Youtube teaser: https://youtu.be/pB5bIIb9Eq0 Here's a bio on the guys: Co-created by Mike Garley (Adventure Time, The Kill Screen, Samurai Slasher) and Michael Lee-Graham (Shortlist Magazine, Hero Complex Gallery, Dead Roots), Our Final Halloween is a thirty-four-page horror one-shot full of monsters, mystery, blood and surprises. ...
Oct 09, 2018•41 min
We go back to the mid-eighties with a movie that Marvel and George Lucas would probably sooner we forgot! Howard the Duck has gone down in movie infamy and generally looked back up as a huge box office flop. But with it's cult following that's developed since, what would our hosts make of a character that first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 back in 1973. There are SPOILERS So if you havent seen the movie please go see if and then come back for the review. This show is sponsored by Sudio . ...
Oct 06, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Chris and Dave review this modern classic with such polarising opinions. Movie Summary: Kal-El, son of Jor-El and Lara, is sent to Earth after his home planet Krypton leads to a complete incineration. Now taking the name "Clark Kent", he then discovers his true persona when he is guided to become Superman: A hero committed to protect Earth's fate and the harm that threatens it. However, General Zod, a citizen of Krypton and its military leader looks at Earth's fate differently and decides to use...
Sep 29, 2018•1 hr 44 min
This week myself and Dave review Batman: Killing Joke (2016). We have some laughs about the Bat Condom and act like a couple of 14 year olds but its all in good fun. Plot Summary: As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Imdb: 5.5 Rotten Tomatoes: 65% There are SPOILERS So if you haven't seen the movie please go see if and then come back for the review. Support the show with our Ama...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 17 min
This weeks review is Marvel's Planet Hulk (2010) Animated Movie. Dave is back with his comic book knowledge. The tag team are back together again! Movie Summary:Tired of dealing with the Hulk, Iron Man and his compatriots send the creature to an uninhabited planet, only for him to divert it to a savage populated one. Once there, the Hulk is enslaved as a gladiator for an evil ruler's games where no one expects him to survive. However, the Hulk's might proves everyone wrong to the point where som...
Sep 15, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Alex joins me for an interview we talk how his project was created with his co-host/partner Chris. We talk about a wide range of films and agree on a review episode with a full team of myself, Dave, Alex and Chris. Great guy and even better project. Please see the links below and give Alex/Chris a follow and support. Subscribe to their podcast. Bio: Alex is an academic working as a Lecturer in Film and Media Theory at Bournemouth University. His research focuses on popular fantasy cinema and ani...
Sep 08, 2018•45 min
This weeks episode myself and friend of the show Matt from Jasper Review review the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Predator. GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!! Movie Overview: Dutch and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists' camp. After that's over, they wait for a helicopte...
Sep 01, 2018•1 hr 10 min
This weeks episode Dave is away on business so I am joined by friend of the show Jaime Selice. We did record this episode a few weeks ago but google hangouts was not my friend so we lost the whole show. So we went again and hoorah it worked! Jaime is a screen writer and has made her own adaption and original story of: Nightwing and Batgirl: Year One - The story can be found here - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12339942/1/Nightwing-and-Batgirl-Year-One It Is a must read for Comic Book fans. Jaime ...
Aug 26, 2018•1 hr 2 min
SHOW OVERVIEW: Marvel's Cloak and Dagger is an adaptation of the beloved Marvel characters whose story is aimed squarely at young adults. This live-action interracial romance follows Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers while falling in love. Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to engulf others in darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart --...
Aug 18, 2018•1 hr 27 min
Bonus episode interview with talented British writer David Hine David has been working in comics since the early 1980s and has a significant body of work for both major publishers like Marvel DC etc and and also creator owned comics and graphic novels David has been working with artist Mark Stafford on the graphic novel Lip Hook which will be published by SelfMadeHero and has been partly funded by the Arts Council Part of the inspiration for the story is the Magdalena Solis religious cult report...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Although released in June in US the AntMan and the Wasp movie has just hit the cinema in UK and later in some other parts of the world Being the first MCU movie since Avengers Infinity War and fans were thirsting to see how much this would tie in and progress what we know Like the first movie which surprised a lot of people though this movie is connected to the wider MCU but can also be enjoyed as a standalone In our comics background we focus on the Wasp and in particular Janet VanDyne and take...
Aug 11, 2018•1 hr 36 min
This 2015 movie brought about the close of Marvels Phase Two and introduced AntMan to the Universe. In fact not one, but two of them. The marketing build up for this movie was more quiet than some of the other movies in the MCU and rumoured production issues along with a change of Director meant that expectations werent as high as we may expect. And although late to the MCU party Ant-Man was one of the first movies Stan Lee had seriously pitched as a movie, only to be derailed with the release o...
Aug 04, 2018•1 hr 34 min
Odin enters his yearly sleep leaving Asgard open to attack. The Mighty Thor and the other gods must protect their kingdom from the forces of evil, however this time Thors evil stepbrother Loki has hatched a new plan. He calls forth the only person to ever have defeated Thor and sets him lose among the gods. Can anything help the god of thunder when the Hulk comes to Asgard? Some Movie Details: IMDB: 7.1 Rotten Tomatoes: 67% There are SPOILERS So if you havent seen the movie please go see if and ...
Jul 28, 2018•54 min
Our first animated review Hulk vs Wolverine was released 27th January 2009. Directed by Frank Paur, this was the first duel series Hulk Vs that tried to be more realistic than the Saturday morning watered down cartoons of years gone by. Striking the right tone for true comic book fans. We are joined this week by friend of the show Matt from Jasper Reviews who is standing in for Dave whilst he is away on a well earned family holiday. Hulk vs Wolverine summary: Wolverine hunts down the Hulk, suspe...
Jul 21, 2018•57 min
Bonus episode talking to Eric Grissom and Will Perkins about their book Gregory Suicide, published by Dark Horse Comics. It was really interesting to speak to Eric and Will about the inspiration from this science fiction graphic novel working together, and the development process of the book. As always we break off into a few tangents and have a few laughs and lot of fun talking to these talented and great guys. Both Chris and I really enjoyed this book and is a great self-contained science fict...
Jul 16, 2018•1 hr 7 min
In the 1980s John Hughes was a comingofage movie making machine. The Writer/Director was head of 80's classics like the National Lampoon series The Breakfast Club, Ferris Buellers Day Off and Pretty in Pink. As well as the legendary Planes Trains and Automobiles among others. After Joel Silver acquired the rights to the 1950's Weird Science comic published by EC Comics he took the idea from the story 'Made of the Future' and ran with it. Although the inspiration for the movie is loosely based on...
Jul 14, 2018•1 hr 19 min
In this bonus episode were delighted to talk to writer and creator Jeremy Holt about his newly released graphic novel Skip to the End, published by Insight Comics. Jeremy talks to us about the book as well as the journey to bring the story to the shelves. The story tackles some tough issues and we both found it fascinating to understand Jeremys inspiration research and perseverance with this and other stories. Skip to the End: Skip to the End tells Jonnys story as he tries tocope with his bandma...
Jul 09, 2018•44 min
