S2E14 – The Final Nightmare | Neogenic Monster Mash

This week we’re covering season 2, episode 14 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘The Final Nightmare’.

The Neogenic Nightmare is coming to a close, but we’ve got one more monster mash to go before we call it a day. This episode has everything: Scorpion scumbaggery, newsvendor opinions, trench coats, puns, cold betrayals, more kidnappings… and a very special surprise at the end of the podcast.

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The Vulture’s Comic Origins

In our latest episode of the podcast, we spoke about The Vulture in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as well as discussing the comic book counterpart. Below is a rundown of the highlights of The Vulture’s criminal career…

Adrian Toomes aka The Vulture first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #2 in 1963, an issue written by Stan Lee and with art by Steve Ditko (it’s the first part – the second involves The Tinkerer).

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S2E13 – Shriek of the Vulture | Undercover Boomer

This week we’re covering season 2, episode 13 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘Shriek of the Vulture’.

The Vulture is in town, ready to throw away a life of bathrobe zoom calls in favour of taking to the skies as New York’s latest green spandex foe. He’s also using the tablet of time to turn children into instant boomers and continues the tradition of kidnapping the Osborn family.

We also dive into the comic origins of Adrian Toomes, from his humble origins to ageist bullying, cannibalism, and robot love curing cancer. It’s a wild ride.

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Silvermane’s Comic Origins

We spoke about Silvermane’s appearance in Spider-Man: The Animated Series in our recent episode, but what about his origins in Marvel comics?

Silvio Manfredi aka Silvermane first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #73 (1969), written by Stan Lee and with art by John Buscema.

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S2E12 – Once Upon A Time Poncho

This week we’re covering season 2, episode 12 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘The Ravages of Time’.

Silvermane wants to live until the totally-not-barren cultural landscape of the 2000s with his time pyramid and time poncho at the ready – but before then he’ll have to go up against the ED-209 of this show, the Mega Slayer. Before long, we’ve got a cavalcade of kidnappings, Clark Kent acrobatics and a pitch for a new Ted Danson project.

Despite his sleep deprivation, Jack has some comic book origins to discuss too – with the wild ride of Silvermane’s tragic unbirth and Pro Evo cyborg body breaking Henry’s brain.

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S2E11 – The Meatball of Crime | The Tablet of Time

This week we’re covering season 2, episode 11 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series – ‘The Tablet of Time’.

Spencer Smythe is rolling in his grave after his son makes a humanoid ultimate battle robot, J3 is back on air, Hammerhead is butting into a gang war over a magical artifact and Silvermane is… old. Super old.

The Kingpin shows off his glorious fat muscles and we get side-tracked talking about his diet. Meatballs aside, we’ve got an all-new monstar making this cavalcade of characters even more jam-packed: the jive-talking Tombstone. Truly, everyone is here.

We then move on to a trilogy of comic origins (pray for Jack), including 1969’s tablet of time story, 1972’s Hammerhead debut, and the appearance of Smythe’s patented mega-slayer/mk. 14 robot in 1992 (check out the further notes for some comic panels).

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What Do We Want From A Blade Reboot?

To finish off our recent Blade retrospective, we’ve brought along The Waffle Press’ Diego Crespo to talk about what we all want from Mahershala Ali’s Blade reboot – and what we think we’ll get.

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If you want to check out our retrospective of the first Blade movie – here it is.

And if you want to check out the rest of our retrospective, as well as a variety of other bonus episodes – you can find our Patreon here.

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Blade Anime Review

Brought to animation and taken far, far away from the hands of David S Goyer, Blade the Anime sees our titular vampire hunter travel through Asia, fighting different kinds of vampire, but the Daywalker (voiced by Harold Perineau) is not alone this time.

We’ve got a human sidekick that doesn’t suck, appearances from Van Helsing and goddamn Wolverine, but the most powerful character in this series is Razor, the vampire-hunting dog that truly does not give a f*ck.

So, join us on a journey through the Blade anime, where we discuss how Mahershala Ali’s upcoming film could learn a thing or two, and finally have the discussion you’ve all been waiting for: which of the on-screen Blades has the largest sex appeal? Spoiler: Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones does not rank highly.

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Blade: The Series retrospective review

If this is the first time you’re hearing of Blade: The Series, there’s definitely a reason for that. Blade: The Series is David S. Goyer’s rock bottom, and considering he wrote the screenplays for Batman vs Superman, this is no mean feat.

In fact, Blade: The Series is rock bottom for everyone involved. Even Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones, whose substandard job replacing Wesley Snipes as Blade is somehow both the pinnacle and nadir of his short and storied acting career.

On the latest addition to the That ’90s Spider-Man Show Patreon feed, Jack and Henry groan, sigh and complain their way through Blade: The Series, where middle-aged vampire moms terrorise the public, the main villain slowly realises his character was probably a Nazi, and we see how the transition to the small screen made Blade a far less effective fighter (unless, of course, he’s up against a pregnant woman).

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