Comic Patrol Pod

We had so much fun reviewing JCVD in TimeCop, that we decided to go full throttle and six pack our boy! Meaning, we're going to Bottle Cap Review SIX JCVD movies over the next little while to make a full pack. Second up is Hard Target - a movie near and dear to Coke's heart, so listen in to see just how well or poorly this 1993 flick has aged. *HIGH JUMP KICK*

With 4 feature length films dropping in 2021, it was a busy year for the MCU. In this episode, we discuss the movies in order of release: Black Widow, Shang-Chi: The Legend of the 10 Rings, The Eternals and Spider-Man: No Way Home.  We break them down, rank them and talk about what's left to come and where the MCU goes from here.

As if you couldn’t get enough Spidey talk on the silver screen The Patrol is back to discuss the most anticipated sequels in the respected spidermen franchises. We go even deeper and longer and geekier as we celebrate what works with our favourite web-slinger and what misses the mark by a daily bugle size tower.   We are in the Spideverse now, nu cheezes! So get ready for us to piling on more thou...

Spidey has been active on the silver screen over the past couple of decades. With three different Spider-verses, leads, directors, leading ladies, etc... there has been plenty of debate on which is the best and which is the worst. Today, that is decided as we examine all of the 1st movies from each Spider-verse: Raimi's, Webb's and Watt's. *web shooting sound effect*

Wayyy back in 1963, a monumental comic run called The Amazing Spider-Man started. A year later, it had it's very first 72-page annual that introduced a team of villains known as The Sinister Six.  This is their introduction to the world, and oh boy, is it ever one to remember.

So this movie exists. Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the long-awaited big screen debut of the crazy red symbiote Carnage, and it's PG-13... Not only that, it's also really bad from start to finish. Listen to us bitch about it within :)

There are so many movies that a lot of us don't even know are based on comic books. JCVD's Timecop being one of them! What started as a Dark Horse anthology series, only a couple years later was a timely (teehee) 90's action flick. We have lots to say about it!

This is a Comic Patrol / Arc Analysis first! We've gone back to a previously Analyzed (heh) run and picked up where we left off with the second arc: this time it's 2012's Hawkeye Little Hits. So if you're as big of a fan of Fraction and Aja as Coke and Dank are, don't miss this one.

The fourth Marvel/Disney + series also happens to be it's first animated one, and hoo boy is it a doozy. Unpredictable from the start, it is a Marvel series like we have never seen before, and that's pretty awesome. What if Peggy became Captain Carter instead of Steve becoming Captain America? What if T'Challa was Star Lord? What if ZOMBIES? What if you should stop reading this and just listen to...

It's (still) Halloween time, so we are (still) being festive. And what better way to be in the spirit than with a vampire book from DC. There's not much else to say that the title doesn't already tell you: it's vampires and they're in the DC Universe.   It's our first glance, nice pants.

It's a comic about cops protecting Manhattan from ghostly creatures that sneak into our world through some sort of a gate, some of which terrorize the population. It has magical badges, ghost cops, angelic partners, invisible trains and a zombie swat guy. It's also written by Rosario Dawson! The problem is, it has all of that stuff, yet it's only 4 issues long... We get into it so listen along and...

The 2021 DC FanDome was last weekend and we recap juuuuust about everything that was announced there in this episode. From The new Batman trailer to Flash's shiny golden boots, from Aquaman's next adventures to DC's version of Pixar's Cars... We have opinions. Oh boy, do we ever have opinions.

Do you like Surfers that are all silver? Do you like time and space exploration? How about symbiotes, an assortment of colours and existential crisis sort of stuff? Then boy do we have a treat for you with Silver Surfer: Black! -- If you want to request a comic book arc for Arc Analysis, hit us up on twitter @Comic_Patrol or e-mail us at ComicPatrolPod@gmail.com  --

Listen up, Gumshoes. ...That's all I've got for now. But really, it's Dick f'n Tracy and even beyond that: it's Dick f'n Tracy Forever! This book was such a surprise to read, so listen in to find out if it was a good or bad kind of surprise. -- If you want to request a comic book arc for Arc Analysis, hit us up on twitter @Comic_Patrol or e-mail us at ComicPatrolPod@gmail.com  --

Hey folks! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to accidentally discover multidimensional travel, send a remote controlled humanoid robot into these multiple dimensions, lose it for 300 years and somehow comes back with your consciousness?  Well then X-Ray Robot just might be for you, especially if you only read the first issue... -- If you want to request a comic book arc for Arc Analysis...

And it's here! The penultimate issue of The Last Ronin series - #4! Filling in the backstories as well as setting the table for the finale, there is a lot going on in this one, so check it out here. We'll be following this series as it drops, one issue at a time, independent of our regular episodes, and other supplemental series. So enjoy it or perform seppuku, you disgrace. 

And just like that, the third Disney Plus Marvel series is wrapped, and just like the first two shows, we have plenty to say about it. Some bad, but mostly good! In fact, after we talk about the ups, downs and potential aftermath of Loki, we (of course) give a little ranking of it compared with TFAWS and WandaVision shows.    

It's been a long time coming, but we're here: our first inductee into our very own Hall of Fame for comic book writers - part 2! We went through almost his entire catalogue of books last time, and labeled those as The Pride. This time, we delve into the 9 worst comic books of his AND the movie adaptations of some of his work, which, if you know Alan Moore, he isn't thrilled about. Soft Cheeses and...

It's been a long time coming, but we're here: our first inductee into our very own Hall of Fame for comic book writers. We went through almost his entire catalogue of books, and even though our opinions differed on some of them, we were able to agree, in the end, that Mr Alan Moore belongs amongst the legends.

What if Superman was a dick? He was still raised by a couple of country folk in a small town and was played off to be a regular boy instead of an alien with superpowers.. All that same stuff, but was just a dickhead?  That's the premise of Brightburn, and it could have been so much more than it was because that is literally all this movie covers. Bottle caps away!

"We want to suck your blood." If that's the first line that comes to mind when you think of vampires, then you're probably old as HECK. This book, Killadelphia, takes a whole new look at what it means do be a vampire (also what it means to be a cop, whose dad was also a cop), and it is definitely an interesting one. A twisted story with incredible art, we go over it in this 19th episode of Arc Ana...

For this Arc Analysis episode, we take it back to nearly 30 years ago, when the USSR was still a thing, and multiple teams of mutants and powered up people did stuff for some sort of reason with hilarious results There are dozens of characters in here, and the average comic book reader has only heard of about 3 of them, tops. And that's what makes this book as fun as it is.

The Venom: Let There Be Carnage trailer dropped not too long ago, which reminded us... We still hadn't given the first movie it's own Bottle Cap treatment. So, here we are!  The Bottle Cap Review of 2018's (somehow) massively profitable Venom movie, where we follow Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock as he struggles with an alien parasite that attaches itself to him to fight an evil corporation.  The second...

Yes, it's THAT Leprechaun. The Lionsgate one with the terrible acting and all of it's 6 (!!!) sequels. On this edition or Arc Analysis, where we dive into what makes a comic book story a boom (good) or a bah (bad), we get this absolute classic, but good god, is it not a lucky read.

Three months later and we're back First Glancing with issue #3 of The Last Ronin. We dive into it and all of the happenings contained in this mega-sized issue and you know what? It's still pretty damn good stuff! We'll be following this series as it drops, one issue at a time, independent of our regular episodes, and other supplemental series. So enjoy it or perform seppuku, you disgrace.