Salt Circle Podcast

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 Albert Monteys. 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 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 Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

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 aka Godzilla, Minilla, and Gabara: All Monsters Attack.   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 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, #298-300 and #315-317; FANTASTIC FOUR #274; and WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #1; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #10) Avengers: Death Trap, The Vault (aka Venom: Deathtrap: The Vault)  Amazing Spider-Man #374 (Hank's first comic book) Venom: The Madness Venom: Sinner Takes All Venom: The Hunger DC-Marvel All Access #1 Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 6: Venom 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 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.world/

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

Ben and Hank talk about episodes 25-39 of Revolutionary Girl Utena, the conclusion of the show.  "Listen, can't you hear it? If your soul has not truly given up then you can hear the sound that races through the end of the world." Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

It's a new season of Grain of Salt! This time Ben and Hank are working their way through 2008's The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series.  This show was structed around 3-4 episode arcs so that they could be repackaged as DVD releases, so there will be 4 episodes of Gran of Salt to cover the 13 episodes of the first season.  And then for scheduling reasons season 2 will be covered in a normal Salt Circle episode to wrap up the series.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank continue their journey through Revolutionary Girl Utena. In this episode they cover episodes 14-24 of the anime.  "I understand. I suppose you have no choice but to revolutionize the world. The way before you has been prepared." 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 the second half of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank start their journey through Revolutionary Girl Utena. In this episode they cover episodes 1-13 of the anime.  Once upon a time, years and years ago there was a little princess, and she was very sad for her mother and father had died. Before the princess appeared a traveling prince riding upon a white horse. He had a regal bearing and a kind smile. The prince wrapped the princess in a rose-scented embrace and gently wiped the tears from her eyes. "Little one," he said, "who bears up alone in such deep sorrow. Never lose that strength of nobility, even when you grow up. I give you this to remember this day. We will meet again. This ring will lead you to me, one day." Perhaps the ring the prince gave her was an engagement ring. This was all well and good, but so impressed was she by him that the princess vowed to become a prince herself one day. But was that really such a good idea? Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Disc

On this Pile of Salt Ben and Hank discuss Adventure Time: Distant Lands; Wildermyth; and Rick and Morty; as well as Pokémon Sword, VGC, and Nuzlockes; XCOM 2: WotC; Mario + Rabbids; Spectromancer; Dream Quest; Roguelikes; No Toilet Paper!!; Boomerang X; Loki; The World Ends with You: The Animation; Nagatoro; Owl House; Tuca and Bertie; and Beowulf. They also answer an email. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank talk about the first half of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, a retelling of Osamu Tezuka's "The Greatest Robot on Earth" Astro Boy story that recasts the German detective robot Gesicht as the main character and reframes the story as a murder mystery.  It is a great comic.  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 4 classic Muppet movies: The Muppet Movie (1979), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), and Muppet Treasure Island (1996). Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/