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SPIDER-NOIR: Cage Commits As Bugs Bunny Bogart

Nicolas Cage brings Spider-Man Noir to live action, and we’re still a little bewildered that this is the timeline we live in. There’s some pros to praise, cons to criticise, and a welcome excuse to discuss one of cinema’s strangest, boldest, and unique actors. We also talk about the roles Cage turned down, including… the Green Goblin?

And while we’re here, we chat about our expectations for SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY before its release this summer. Is it Man-Spider O’Clock… once more??

Oi Oi DAREDEVIL! Ello PUNISHER! Ey Up INVINCIBLE! Cheerio THE BOYS!

Superheroes are done. But first, some TV to talk about:

THE BOYS are back in town! DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN S2 gives us faith in a higher power! INVINCIBLE S4 continues to traumatise! PUNISHER: ONE LAST KILL sees Frank not follow through on his subtitle, and… why not Dolph Lundgren’s THE PUNISHER (1989) while we’re at it?

Mysterio’s Last Snow Job | S4E9

This time we’re talkin’ season 4, episode 9 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – “The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson”!

“You can go to the sewers AFTER you go to the hospital”

Join Henry and Jack to the haunted caverns beneath Mary Jane’s ill-advised new movie production in the 50th episode of TAS! Fresh off of inter-dimensional trauma, MJ is playing a secret agent on the big screen while Aunt Anna is presumably tied to a chair in a basement somewhere. But how does Mysterio factor into this? How will Jack connect this to David Lynch’s filmography? What horrifying advice will Henry provide our dear listeners? And why does Mary Jane keep getting tricked by her ghost dad?

For our comic book segment, Jack informs Henry of Mysterio’s death in 90s comics, as well as some other bizarre facts about Quentin Beck’s role in Spider-Man lore in the modern era…

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!

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