We’ve all made it! We’re here, starting what is arguably the most quintessential Spider-Man animated series of them all, which we will affectionately call Spidey 94. This iteration has plenty of familiar faces from the webslinger’s earliest days, but also no shortage of popular contemporary characters pulled straight out of the Marvel comics’ canon. We […]
Our last bridge to Spidey 94 is the X-Men pilot that found its way into video rental stores, but not into any network’s heart back in 1989. A fairly comic-canonical group of X-MEN team up to take on Magneto and his “Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists,” which probably sounded a lot less loaded 33 years ago. […]
To bridge the gap between Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends and the upcoming Spider-Man (94) series, we start with this contemporary cartoon to Spidey, Iceman, and Firestar. If you thought Amazing Friends suffered from too much whimsy, prepare to be firmly grounded by Bruce Banner and his green alter-ego. In this episode, Bruce travels to […]
It’s the final episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. We learn that Bobby Drake has a mutant half-sister, Lightwave, and that she has apparently turned against her former compatriots at S.H.I.E.L.D., with the intention of sabotaging and stealing the world communication satellite, the GUARDSTAR. What a ride through these early 80s iterations of Spider-Man! […]
We’re Back!! After a paternity hiatus (which did come unexpectedly early), Bryan and I are back and ready to wind down our re-watch of Amazing Friends before turning our attention to the next Spidey series… This week, it’s the most memorable episode from Jason’s childhood – the Spider Friends pay a visit to that lovable […]
It’s a heckuva love story on this week’s Amazing Friends – the first-sight kind, between our pal Peter Parker and a young girl from either 500 or 5000 years in the future, depending on whether you trust Stan’s narration or the character’s dialog. We also get the answer to that eternal question: what is “kluven?” […]