Salt Circle Podcast

Ben and Hank watch episodes 21 through 24 of Ultra Q: Space Directive M774, Metamorphosis, Fury of the South Sea, and The Idol of Goga. This week the episode with a child is the best of the bunch and perhaps Ultra Q at its finest. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Well, Hank bailed on this show on episode 2 so this is only going to be about first impressions on the live action Cowboy Bebop remake. Ben had made it through episode 4 when this was recorded so that's how much of the show gets touched on.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bella...

Ben and Hank watch episodes 17 through 20 of Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project, The Rainbow's Egg, Challenge from the Year 2020, The Undersea Humanoid Ragon. After all this time we finally learn what stretches Ultra Q's sense of believability and get an episode that was all a dream. And then we get an episode with a Looney Tunes joke ending, but that's fine, that's just reality.  Email: SaltCirclePodc...

Ben and Hank rewatched Cowboy Bebop along with the 2001 movie ahead of the release of the Netflix live-action adaptation.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 13 through 16 of Ultra Q: Garadama, Tokyo Ice Age, Kanegon's Cocoon, Garamon Strikes Back. In which Ultra Q starts reusing its own monsters.  Also, Children continue to be a problem.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Hank watched through all of Turn A Gundam and was really impressed and so he convinced Ben to watch through it over the course of 3 podcast episodes.  For this episode of Salt Circle they talk about episodes 1 through 15.  Also, shoutout to The Great Gundam Project on the Abnormal Mapping network, which is what turned Hank onto this show: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/ggp Email: SaltCi...

Ben and Hank watch episodes 9 through 12 of Ultra Q: Baron Spider, The Underground Super Express Goes West, Balloonga, and I Saw a Bird. Children were a mistake. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

This was going to be a Salt Screen commentary, but Ben's audio was lost to the wind so instead here's a 25 min podcast of Ben and Hank talking about how much Horror Express (1972) rules. Happy Halloween! Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

As is tradition, Ben and Hank once again did a Halloween movie swap this year both picked movies they had not yet seen. Ben picked James Wan's Malignant (2021) and Hank chose Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987). Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 5 through 8 of Ultra Q: Peguila Is Here!, Grow Up! Little Turtle, S.O.S. Mount Fuji, and Terror of the Sweet Honey. "We were not prepared" Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank read 4 books by horror mangaka Junji Ito: Uzumaki, Hellstar Remina, Frankenstein and Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ultra Q is a tokusatsu science fiction show from 1966 created by Tsuburaya Productions. Originally conceived as a show in the model of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits but retooled to focus more on giant monsters. Toho was heavily invested in Tsuburaya Productions and so a lot of props from Godzilla and other tokusatsu movies wound up reused for the show. Ultra Q ran for 28 episodes and was...

Tis' the season for Horror, so for the rest of the month it's gong to be horror and monsters for Salt Circle, starting with four Vincent Price classics.  The week Ben and Hank watched House on Haunted Hill (1959), House of Usher (1960), House of Wax (1953), and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning...

Ben and Hank read Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel about the fictional character Billy Pilgrim becoming unstuck in time and meeting 4 dimensional aliens that is also about Vonnegut's very real experiences in World War II being a survivor of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war. They also watched the 1972 film adaptation and read the 2020 Graphic Novel adaptation by Ryan North and Alber...

Ben and Hank watch and talk over the Utena Movie, Adolescence of Utena . Directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara and written by Yōji Enokido shortly after the end of the show, the movie is a retelling of the story of the show, condensed and uh... changed.  Press play on the movie at 0:45 to sync up. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barre...

Ben and Hank watched 4 variations of car combat movies.  Specifically they watched Redline (2009), Death Proof (2007), Speed Racer (2008) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Gotta go fast.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Star Wars happened. Ben and Hank burned through all 9 shorts from Star Wars: Visions and are excited to talk about it.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank finally watched the two Showa era Godzilla films that Hank left off of the Godzilla bracket. They're... not great, but they are still Godzilla movies.  The two movies we're talking about this week are Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) aka Godzilla versus the Sea Monster aka Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas and All Monsters Attack (1969) aka Godzilla's Revenge...

Ben and Hank talk about the entirety of season 2 of The Spectacular Spider-Man, episodes 14-26. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank talk about Kill la Kill. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Hank has Ben read too many old Venom comics and some episodes of the 90's Spider-Man cartoon to properly introduce him to the character alongside watching Venom (2018) starring Tom Hardy. Things watched: Spider-Man (1994) episodes 8-10: The Alien Costume Part 1, 2 and 3.  Venom (2018) Comics talked about: Spider-Man: Birth of Venom TPB (Collects SECRET WARS #8; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #252-259, #2...

Ben and Hank talk about episode 10, 11, 12, and 13 of The Spectacular Spider-Man.  These episodes close out season 1 with the Black Costume, Venom, Black Cat and The Sinister Six. Season 2 will be covered in episode 150 of The Salt Circle Podcast. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank talk about episode 7, 8 and 9 of The Spectacular Spider-Man.  These episodes introduce Mary Jane, The Green Goblin and Doc Ock comes into his own. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Salt Screen is the new branding for our commentary episodes. Ben and Hank give running commentary as they watch through the movie Spider-Man , released in 2002 and directed by Sam Rami. Press play on your copy of the movie at 3:39 to sync up. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.w...

Ben and Hank talk about episode 4, 5 and 6 of The Spectacular Spider-Man . These episodes give us the origins for Shocker, Sandman and the Rhino as well as introduce us to the Big Man aka Tombstone.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j