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Kraven The Hunter The Movie The Review + Sonyverse Rankings

It’s finally come… The Year of Kraven has lasted longer than 365 days and featured very little Kraven, but now we have come together to review his cinematic debut. Is it terrible? You bet. But HOW is it terrible? That’s the real question.

We are joined this week by Gene Aversa to talk about what went wrong with the Kraven movie and the demise of the Sony Expanded Universe. We also rank the Sonyverse movies, from ‘what are they doing?’ to ‘what am I doing watching this?’.

Additionally, we talk about some of the recent updates on the next movie that actually stars Peter Parker – Spider-Man: Brand New Day!

The Human Fly & Stegron the Dinosaur Man (Weird Lore #14)

Oh so you thought we were done with weird lore bs corner, huh? Done with obscure animal-themed villains? Not a chance.

“This is much closer to Leprechaun In The Hood than I thought it was gonna be”

This week Jack introduces Henry to creations that are rumoured to appear in the next Spider-Verse movie. One is the dinosaur man known as Stegron, a one-track scientific mind who is a sucker for a nap. The other is The Human Fly, JJ’s most embarrassing project who only becomes more disgusting over time.

DafoePenis .com | S4E8 – The Return of the Green Goblin

This time we’re talkin’ season 4, episode 8 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – “The Return of the Green Goblin”!

“So undercooked I think I got salmonella from watching”

An iconic villain returns. Yes, that’s right. Aunt Anna is back and she’s enlisting help from gun-totting strangers she meets in cemeteries to take down Peter Parker once and for all. Also, the Green Goblin is here.

Comic Origins: Jack gives an overview on Harry Osborn’s descent into goblin madness, what adaptations have worked, and gives some story recommendations.

X-MEN ’97: An X-Tremely Late Review

X-Men ’97 continued the story from X-Men: The Animated Series, which is like the slightly cooler older sibling of our primary focus on this podcast. So of course we were going to talk about it when they brought it back to life. It wasn’t really gone, just having an intergalactic romance with space royalty elsewhere.

We, however, are a little late to the homecoming. Jack watched it as it came out, while Henry was a late bloomer catching up this year. Together, we are too disorganised to regularly release episodes. Like an X-Men team run by two Morphs.Continue reading “X-MEN ’97: An X-Tremely Late Review”

S4E7 – Got Morb?

This time we’re talkin’ season 4, episode 7 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – The Vampire Queen!

“It’s a 500 Days of Blade situation”

Part two of our vampire caper means that’s (hopefully) a season wrap on Morbius. But before he attempts to make it big in a cancelled pilot spin-off, he’s teaming up with the gang to take down a new hypnotic vampire on the scene: Blade’s mum!

Some comic book origins this week: Jack gives us a little backstory for Vanessa Brooks before diving into Debra Whitman’s comic counterpart: a tale of gaslighting, psychotic episodes, and a few reasons to not date Peter Parker.

S4E6 – Of Mice and Morb

This time we’re talkin’ season 4, episode 6 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – The Awakening!

“We regret to inform that you it is indeed Morbin’ time once again”

Oh, it’s good to be back! We are now back on our BS in more ways than one, this time recording from different continents for the noble goal of talking about *reads notes* Morbius!? What the heck? Let’s go on hiatus again!

We had a full episode’s worth of talking to do about the unfortunate return of one Michael Morbius, but we had even more complaining to do that got cut from the episode – check out the feed to see our bonus episode to talk about the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom too!

Secret Invasion is the most Disney+ show of all time

Oh boy! Spoilers: we did not like this one!

We haven’t talked the MCU for a little while but here we talk about Secret Invasion for our latest Patreon-exclusive episode. So let’s dive into a disappointing show that fails to live up to the disappointing comic event, while Jack fills Henry in on some of the shows he missed. Plus, we talk about some of the recent news about behind-the-scenes troubles with Disney+ shows and our general exhaustion with it all. But hey, there are jokes too!

Find the episode on our Patreon

[This episode was released in October 2023 but we forgot to make a blog post for it until today…]

Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes needs to be avenged

From 2010 to 2012 we were treated to an excellent adaptation of a wide range of Avengers stories in two stunning seasons. Then it was cancelled to make way for a show that was more in line with the new movies in a move that nobody liked. But MAN how good was this show while it lasted?

Now that the MCU has progressed and there are too many Marvel properties for us to catch up on, how does this show look in comparison? In what way is the finale like King of the Hill? And how bad does a relationship have to go before you start eating people? All that and a sprinkle of talk about Avengers comics and the uhhh… Avengers game that came out! Remember that? We talk at length about it on our latest retrospective over on our Patreon feed!

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[This episode was released in September 2023 but we forgot to make a blog post for it until today…]

Weird Lore Bonus: WHY Is The Hobgoblin?

Does it count as lore if it’s in real life?

As a follow-up to Weird Lore Bullshit Corner #11 on the main podcast feed, Jack brings a tale of the bonkers behind-the-scenes nonsense that led to Hobgoblin’s mysterious identity being prolonged for so long and eventually getting very, very confusing. And when we say nonsense, we mean nonsense. Who knew comic book editorial could get so petty and… well… weird?

All this and more in our first Patreon-exclusive weird lore… stay tuned for more Tommy Wiseau impressions.

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[This episode was released in June 2022 but we forgot to make a blog post for it until today…]

5th Anniversary Show!

Henry and Jack celebrate 5 years since their first episode with a self-indulgent chat about the origins of this godforsaken podcast, some general chat about the cartoon, comics and movies, a few major life updates, rounded off with listener questions!