Boulder Punch Podcast

PLEASE CLAP. After five years and a two-year-long production, the sequel to the divisive, yet massively successful Joker has hit the silver screen... and it has been an absolute disaster. A box office failure tanking with both critics and audiences, Todd Phillips' weird musical-deconstruction-thingamabob is considered to be one of the worst comic book films in a while. Both fans and haters of the...

MAKE THE ART YOU WANT TO MAKE! Another week, another round of news. Some fun, most worrying, and some absolutely dire for the state of storytelling in bigger projects, IPs, and so on. Let's talk about it. Come join Alec and Brian as they discuss recent rumblings such as an unexpected King in Black adaptation, the Avatar: The Last Airbender game, and Hollywood's latest terrible decisions when it co...

TRAILERS, TRAILERS, AND MORE TRAILERS! It's been a few weeks since we've talked news. There's been a few trailers. Y'all know the drill. Tune in as Alec and Brian dive into the notable news of the past two weeks, including trailers for DEVIL MAY CRY , THUNDERBOLTS , BALLERINA , THE LAST OF US Season 2, and the reveal of GHOST OF YŌTEI !

"I'M DONE SAVING YOU." Despite its origins lying in the medium, there was only ever one Transformers animated movie, and it was made nearly forty years ago. After many years of more-bad-than-good live action films, Paramount and Hasbro finally announced in 2023 that the Autobots and Decepticons would return to the realm of big-screen animation - this time, in a completely new origin story about ho...

"I DO SEE A WAY. THERE IS A NARROW WAY THROUGH." Despite us expecting a much shorter episode due to the smaller amount of news, the density of the topics of discussion today are far greater than we imagined. From Spider-Man 4 finally receiving a director, to concerning directions for it in light of rumors and the new trailer for Venom: The Last Dance , and PlayStation's new upgraded console being...

"I DON'T NEED A GUITAR... I AM A ROCKSTAR!" Back in 2023, Xbox and Bethesda shadowdropped a game from Tango Gameworks that they were more than likely certain would fail. Instead, it became an overnight sensation, making its way to other consoles, and surviving a baffling and frustrating shutdown -- along with its studio. To celebrate the revival of Tango and their instant-hit, we figured it was hi...

NEW BOULDER PITCH COMING IN HOT! After the Comic Con panel that can be charitably described as divisive, many fans are worrying about the direction the MCU is heading in as the Multiverse Saga reaches its crescendo, and for good reason. The boys are amongst that crowd, and they figured it was high time to make a follow-up to their Phase 4 pitches. So, tune in as Brian and Alec go in-depth on their...

"I KNOW WE'LL MEET AGAIN SOME SUNNY DAY..." After the monumental finale of Season One, fans of the Pines family's shenanigans were left hanging for a full calendar year before Season Two finally started in 2014. What many were unaware of, however, was that it would not only take nearly two years for all the episodes to release, but that this would also be the show's final season. Season Two of Ale...

"BUT HER AIM IS GETTING BETTER!" With The Book of Bill and its ARG site sparking a resurgence of a show thought to be long gone, we figured it was high time to lace up our boots, head out into the woods, and find what mystery and weirdness await us. Born from the mind and childhood of Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls is widely considered to be one of the greatest cartoons of all time, at the very least...

"WOOIMBOUTTAMAKEANAMEFORMYSELFERE!" After six long years, the Merc with the Mouth has finally returned to the big screen -- and this time, he's not alone. Wade and Logan's big buddy-comedy roadtrip has been the subject of debate since it was announced nearly two years ago, and the discourse has only heated up with every update leading to its release. Many people bat for it while accusing people of...

VICTOR VON DOOM USED TO EAT CHEESEBURGERS. Another year, another Comic-Con down the hatch! After last year's convention was downscaled due to studios insisting on not paying actors and writers, this year's SDCC promised to be even bigger. Between so many major panels, announcements, and showcases, how could anything go wrong? It's not like that RDJ Dr. Doom rumor we joked about two weeks ago would...

"YOU WILL COMPLY (AND LISTEN)..." After the amazing first season last summer, the boys were beyond excited to see what was in store for Adult Swim's (now Toonami's) amazing new takes on Clark, Lois, and Jimmy in Season 2. Between mysteries surrounding Krypton, Amanda Waller and Task Force X, Brainiac, Kara Zor-El, and relationship drama, this new season delivered on absolutely everything we were h...

BABY'S FIRST YANDERE Over eighty episodes in, we have never done an episode centering around a certain anime or manga. That changes today, for better and for worse (mostly for worse). One show that Alec watched in his youth was a popular horror-action series called The Future Diary (AKA Mirai Nikki ), and upon revisiting it with a friend a couple years ago, he realized just how terrible it was......

THE LAST TIME IS NOW! Since we've missed out on the past couple weeks, we figured it was high time for another news episode, and we certainly have a lot to talk about. Between more Superman set photos and theories, a new look at the Dead Rising remaster/make, Absolute Comics gearing up for a full reveal, and the legendary John Cena announcing his retirement from WWE, we have a lot to cover, so tun...

WELCOME TO GAME NIGHT! It was the week of the Fourth of July. The boys needed an episode for the week and did not have enough time to find a topic of discussion. Brian had a suggestion. A test of will. Of strength. Of weakness. Of pride. Of humility. Of what you would do for one million dollars. Tune in as Brian and Alec have their first game night of the show with a game of Rooster Teeth's "Milli...

"I THOUGHT THAT WAS NON-DIEGETIC." After the divisive 60th Anniversary Specials from last fall, Doctor Who had a clean slate with Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, an iteration that fans immediately latched onto in his first apearanced in The Giggle and The Church on Ruby Road . Hopes were high for his first full (yet short) season, although there were plenty of doubts going in. Could Russell T...

"ISN'T IT OBVIOUS? YOU'RE SPIDER-MAN." One of the hottest books on the shelves right now, so much so that it's outsold its 616 counterpart, is none other than Hickman and Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man . This fresh new take on Peter Parker's story has brought in an enormous amount of readers, both new and old, and it definitely doesn't seem to be losing any steam going forward. We touched on it...

MAYBE NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ACCURATE... With Season 4 finally out, and with Season 5 confirmed to be the end of the show, the boys (not THOSE boys) decided it was high time to look back on the first three seasons that started it all. When people heard Amazon was adapting Garth Ennis's poor-taste satire of superhero comics, many were perplexed and doubtful. The original book was so mean-spirited...

AND FOR THE MAIN EVENT, BRIAN RANTS ABOUT SILENT HILL 2 AGAIN! Since focusing on our Spider-Pitches, we've missed out on a lot from the past few weeks. Between news, comics, trailers, and more, there's a whole lot to cover and way too much time on our hands to do it, And one of those things is a game that has haunted Brian for the past two years. Oh boy. In this jam-packed episode, tune in as Bria...

MOM SAID IT'S BRIAN'S TURN TO PITCH! After Alec's Ultimate Spider-Man pitch went way longer than expected last week, Brian has taken extra time to gear up for his own. While Alec went in a more 00's TV-14 teen drama route, Brian's taking a stab at his own take on the wall-crawler in an animated kids' show format, a la The Animated Series and Spectacular . Between master planners, Sinister Sixes, a...

ALEC'S LONGEST YAP SESSION EVER! It's time for yet another session of everyone's favorite sub-series of the show: Boulder Pitch ! This time, the boys have something so big that they can't fit it in one episode, let alone one week -- their pitches, concepts, and ideas for their own takes on Spider-Man! Tune into part one this week as Alec presents to Brian (and all of you) something he's been formu...

"I CAN'T FEEL YOU." Anyone who was a Marvel fan as a kid in the 90's, 00's, even 10's probably remembers watching X-Men: The Animated Series , whether it be during syndication or reruns. It was one of the most popular shows of the 90's and put Marvel on an equal playing field with DC's heavy-hitters like Batman: The Animated Series . So, when the continuation was announced in late 2021, many peopl...

XBOX: THE OUROBOROS OF THE GAMES INDUSTRY. We were planning for this week's topic to be of a much lighter nature, but the one we picked instead was too big and too infuriating to ignore. Xbox/Microsoft has been the poster child for bad business decisions ever since the reveal of the Xbox One eleven years ago, and they've only gotten bafflingly worse. From layoffs, to cancellations, to near-100 Bil...

VEGETA SUPERGIRL INCOMING! When planning this episode, we figured there would be way more news from the past two weeks we would've been able to talk about. That surprisingly isn't the case this time. Ah well, just means we can finally make an episode under four hours. Tune in with Alec and Brian as they discuss recent news, rumors, and trailers from the past two weeks, including the highly anticip...

WHO ARE WE? ARE WE NOT UNIQUE? With Alec having beaten Persona 3 Reload just a few days ago, the boys were in the mood to finally tackle another game in the series that just so happens to be one of their favorite games of all time -- Persona 5 Royal . This entry in the long-running Persona series (and the even longer-running Shin Megami Tensei franchise if you wanna be a nerd) quite literally chan...