{"id":26328,"date":"2018-05-21T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=26328"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:50:57","slug":"black-panther-comic-series-black-bolt-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/black-panther-comic-series-black-bolt-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Black Panther\" Comic Series: Black Bolt review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5sheAfNrnw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bp1c_bb1.jpg\" title=\"Black Bolt\" width=\"350\" height=\"475\" align=right style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 15px\"><i>Supercharged powers and a quasic-sonic scream let Black Bolt destroy enemies with a single utterance.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Okay, we've gotta start by pointing out that \"quasic\" isn't a word - it's just a \"quasi-sonic\" scream with an extra C on the end. A typo that made it to production. On with the review!<\/p>\n<p>This is mostly the same figure that came in 2014's <a href=\"\/yo\/hmlx_ti.php\">Thanos Imperative<\/a> box set, except his body (his <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16890\">reused body<\/a>, of course) is painted in a dark blue rather than true black. It does kind of miss the point of his name (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OAFE\/status\/950138641262764032\" target=twit>a miscommunication somewhere<\/a>?), but it's dark enough to suit him.<\/p>\n<p>He has the same awkward <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bp1c_bb2.jpg\" title=\"me when you fall down an open manhole and die\" width=\"85\" height=\"140\" align=left style=\"margin:0px 10px 0px 0px\">arms as the previous version, and while the silver pattern on his torso is similar, it's not actually the same paint masks - very, very similar, but the angle over the shoulders is just a little different. How weird! Ditto the head: for whatever reason, the head on this figure is a different mold than the 2014 figure - the temples are wider, the chin is more defined, and the pitchfork on his forehead sticks up farther. They could easily have stuck with the <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bp1c_bb3.jpg\" title=\"me when I stub my toe\" width=\"80\" height=\"275\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 5px\">existing mold, but instead, they spent the money on a new one. Weird.<\/p>\n<p>And the thing is, it's not like they weren't already spending money on this guy. He comes with a second head, the exact head we asked for four years ago: a head with the mouth open in a yell. The sculpt on the open mouth is great, from the teeth and the tongue to the wrinkles on his cheeks and the jut of his lower lip. The interior of his mouth is bright blue, suggesting energy rather than plain anatomy, and his eyes are solid silver. The coolest thing, though, is the way his tuning fork changes; the sculptor created a chain of Kirby dots rising up off it, and they've been cast in translucent blue plastic to reinforce the \"powerful energy\" feeling. Only the base of the fork is painted (silver, naturally), while the bit visible on the back is left blue so light can come through. This is a great extra!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bp1c_bb4.jpg\" title=\"Okoye's leg\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\" align=left style=\"margin:5px 10px 0px 0px\">Black Bolt is part of the <i>Black Panther<\/i> toyline, so he comes with part of the <a href=\"\/yo\/bp1m_o.php\">Okoye<\/a> Build-A-Figure. Which part? A leg part. The right leg, specifically.<\/p>\n<p>Other than having the word \"black\" in his name, Black Bolt doesn't make a lot of sense for a <i>Black Panther<\/i> line. Is that why Hasbro put him there? Is there any other logical reason? To be fair, given the failure of the <i>Inhumans<\/i> TV show, it's not like <b>they're<\/b> going to be getting their own toyline any time soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #197\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-197\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #197<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"West Coast Avengers comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/west-coast-avengers-comparison\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">West Coast Avengers comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: Professor X\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/soon-forget-professor-x\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: Professor X<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Marvel Legends Winter Guard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/marvel-legends-winter-guard\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Marvel Legends Winter Guard<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"\"Ant-Man and the Wasp\" Movie Series: Ant-Man review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/ant-man-and-the-wasp-movie-series-ant-man-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\"Ant-Man and the Wasp\" Movie Series: Ant-Man review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Flippin' Through Previews - May '11 Flippin' through Previews - July '13 Marvel Comics action figure variant covers I see a Warlock and I want it painted black Marvel Legends X-Factor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,25,42],"tags":[319,290,88],"class_list":["post-26328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-hasbro","category-marvel","category-videos","tag-black-panther","tag-inhumans","tag-marvel-legends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26328"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46450,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328\/revisions\/46450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}