Spectacular Spider-man

[Premonitions]

In other words the best damn spider-man show to date.
I'm ashamed of all of you people, the fact that nothing has been said about this(so far at least) spectacular(deal with it) show is a sin, and an insult to the very premise of these forums, you're all losing geek points for this one, especially you Fifth..

Basically, it's an animated version of Ultimate Spider-man, art is on point, action is wonderful, (He actually punches people in this one) teen angst is actually tasteful and well done. Power vs responsibility is well played. everything is great. watch. this .show.

[Doc ock rokc]

First off I am the biggest DOC OCK fan ever the reason i didn't bring this up IS i thought THE tentacles looked like SHIT. second off the artist was the same one who did "The batman" show which although was new...sucked the last thing we need is a spider-man show like that. REALLY for posting this it makes you lose geek points

my capital words spell out the true meaning of dr.ock

[Fifthfiend]

it's an animated version of Ultimate Spider-man,

Does he get his ass kicked and have to get saved by a girl in every episode like in Ultimate Spider-Man?

especially you Fifth.

Marvel's repeated and increasingly shitty desecrations of Spider-Man have finally killed whatever affection I have for the character. I mean it's possible whichever one you're talking about doesn't come with all the lamesauce bullshit heaped upon him in every single other version in every single published media but man, I just can't make myself care enough to bother finding out.

[Mirai Gen]

Marvel's repeated and increasingly shitty desecrations of Spider-Man have finally killed whatever affection I have for the character.
Seconded. The Marvel Universe's biggest goddamn Deus ex Machinae has pretty much got me tapped out for anything Spider-Man related right now.

[Ben_Fox]

In other words the best damn spider-man show to date.

That would be saying more if the bar hadn't been set so low by previous offerings. But then, I may have missed a few because I agree that:

Marvel's repeated and increasingly shitty desecrations of Spider-Man have finally killed whatever affection I have for the character. I mean it's possible whichever one you're talking about doesn't come with all the lamesauce bullshit heaped upon him in every single other version in every single published media but man, I just can't make myself care enough to bother finding out.

I can only imagine how bad it's gotten; they lost me at "Maximum Cloneage" and how many years ago was that particular Mighty Marvel Abortion?

[Odjn]

Ultimate Spider Man started out pretty strong. The first couple of Doc Ock battles were neat and alright, I didn't get too far in however.

[Premonitions]

second off the artist was the same one who did "The batman" show which although was new...sucked the last thing we need is a spider-man show like that.
Actually I think this is a different artist, (http://cheeks-74.deviantart.com/) the style looks similar, though.
The writer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Weisman) on the other hand, wrote Gargoyles,
Does he get his ass kicked and have to get saved by a girl in every episode like in Ultimate Spider-Man?
no, Gwen(replace ultimate mary jane with Gwen stacey,Same thing, geeky female friend,Mary Jane seems to act like 616 mary jane or ultimate Gwen Stacy) is there, but he wins his fights on his own, his family and friends are rarely in the middle of the fights, except for eddie brock, who's a really nice guy right now. In the third episode, he fought the lizard, broke his hand(or just fucked it up real bad it seems) while doing it, webbed the hand up, and proceeded to fight the rest of the episode with the broken hand.

That would be saying more if the bar hadn't been set so low by previous offerings. But then, I may have missed a few because I agree that:
The nineties cartoon was pretty good, despite crazy censorship and over dramatic plot, it was a milestone in the nineties era of serious cartoons anyway.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Seconded. The Marvel Universe's biggest goddamn Deus ex Machinae has pretty much got me tapped out for anything Spider-Man related right now.

Yeah, but this isn't the comic books, or even Marvel. The comic books are source material, but the show is pretty much only loosely following the comic. (Brock is Peters older friend, who's now a college freshman. And we've got Gwen Stacy with a crush on Peter, which he hardly takes notice of.)

It isn't perfectly realistic, but thus far Spidey pretty much is useless against most of the super villains. He's either been able to spot their weaknesses, or found a way to use the enviorment against them.

(And in the case of the Rhino, both.)

There's one episode where he messes up his hand, and makes a web cast to hold it in place.

For a Sat AM cartoon, it isn't half bad & graphically its pretty fun to watch.

SWB

[Mirai Gen]

I'm sure I'll watch it eventually, but right now I'm getting tired of the retelling of everything Stan Lee made.

It's like, if they re-re-re-remade Star Wars original trilogy, each time doing it in cartoon form, then a comic book, then a novel, then they re-did the movies again, then they made another cartoon series, I'd be all, "Okay, you know, I think I'm okay to not watch the new Star Wars show."

That and, no TV.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

I'm sure I'll watch it eventually, but right now I'm getting tired of the retelling of everything Stan Lee made.

It's like, if they re-re-re-remade Star Wars original trilogy, each time doing it in cartoon form, then a comic book, then a novel, then they re-did the movies again, then they made another cartoon series, I'd be all, "Okay, you know, I think I'm okay to not watch the new Star Wars show."

That and, no TV.

That's what YouTube & Veoh are for. I wouldn't have the the first episode otherwise.

SWB

[Fifthfiend]

The writer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Weisman) on the other hand, wrote Gargoyles

Now see, why didn't you just say that in the first place?

[Smarty McBarrelpants]

You know if I was casting a writer for the most whiney angsty superhero ever, the last person I would cast would be a writer for a show filled with angst already. Statue angst even. Just saying.

[Ben_Fox]

You know if I was casting a writer for the most whiney angsty superhero ever, the last person I would cast would be a writer for a show filled with angst already. Statue angst even. Just saying.

What's this, they're giving the Silver Surfer a show, too?

[Premonitions]

You know if I was casting a writer for the most whiney angsty superhero ever, the last person I would cast would be a writer for a show filled with angst already. Statue angst even. Just saying.
actually he's not supposed to be that bad. IN fact, episode three(which keeps getting mentioned here) had him sitting there with a power-removal potion in his hand, after being shunned by his friends for not helping make it,(to cure the lizard) going off to do the spidey thing(which they did'nt know) and getting the pictures, which they did. He wiped away all the angst of a twenty second "I did'nt ask for this" rant in about three seconds with the line "Spidey's here cause he's needed, not to be liked" end of angst, put the formula away. In fact, all his dilemmas about balancing peter and spider-man end this way in this show "Yeah, folks'd die if I stopped, so.. I'm gonna keep it up"

Now see, why didn't you just say that in the first place?
cause I'm an asswhole

[Aerozord]

well for me personally its saying alot to have a spider-man series match the 90's incarnation. I haven't seen enough to make such a judgement. The 90's version kept alot of things intact best that could be expected with censorship. Although we didn't see Carnage killing people left and right he definitely like the idea of seeing death and they didn't hide that his human half is a serial killer.

[I_Like_Swordchucks]

You know if I was casting a writer for the most whiney angsty superhero ever, the last person I would cast would be a writer for a show filled with angst already. Statue angst even. Just saying.

Actually I don't think there's a lot of angst in this version. He keeps pretty light-hearted.

I find the art not terribly brilliant, but the writing so far seems quite on the spot as far as I'm concerned (as opposed to the MTV spider-man which had amazing art, but shit for writing).