Spectacular Spider-Man (cartoon)

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:17 am

I am loving this cartoon. Me and Chrissy watch two or three of them every night. The animation reminds me a bit of Humberto Ramos, or the new guy on Ultimate, whats-his-name. The writing is full of great character development--the way Peter's friends get really angry that he ran from the fight with the Lizard is precious.

Only one thing is bugging me. Is there an origin episode? The series just starts post bug-bite and post-Uncle-Ben. I know everyone knows the story, but I wanted to see this take on the origin. Anyone have any idea?

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:42 am

Where is this cartoon Bumblebeemus?

Post by **Best First** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:19 am

David LaFuente is the Ultimate Guy. He is boss.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:47 am

http://xkcd.com/643/

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:37 pm

LaFuente is boss. He beats Bagley and Immonen both.

Post by **Best First** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:31 am

Ooh, i will only subscribe to that when he churns out 30+ issues without a delay - two of the many good things about US is the the regularity of the publishing schedule and the consistency of the art.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:43 am

Well, he's got to live up to it now.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:41 pm

I love this cartoon. Season 3 can't come soon enough!

All the characters, heroes, villains, Peter's friends and enemies (they even made Tombstone into a very interesting villain) get so much characterization. That's not surprising since Greg Weissman is the series director, and he has proven with Gargoyles that he can build very 'real' characters.

Love the relationship between Peter and Eddie Brock too, I think in the comics they weren't really friends before he became Venom...

And the season 2 unmasking of the Goblin even surprised me... I didn't see that coming. Real genius.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:55 pm

Don't give anything away! I'm still working my way through Season 1. But yeah, so far I really like what they've done with Eddie Brock.

[SPOILER]

The Fall Formal episode was hilarious. "And the Queen is... Red-Headed Girl Who Came With Peter Parker?"

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:15 pm

Ooops, forgot to answer Yaya. You can find the cartoon by searching "Spectacular Spider-Man 1x1" on YouTube. That should lead you to the ffirst episode. Somebody put up every episode, split into three parts a la "1x1 part 1."

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:38 am

I finished watching it last weekend. This series is brilliant. I hope the only reason Season 2 is not on DVD yet (in proper set, not those three-four episode DVDs they seem to insist on doing when it comes to cartoons) is that it still hasn't finished in US.

As much as enjoyed Season 1, S2 was even better. They basically did a sequels to all important S1 arcs and they were improvements.

Shame that there most likely won't be S3. Greg Weissman said who would show up and in S2 those characters were already foreshadowed, so bummer.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:17 am

There won't be a s3? BUmmer.

It seems almost like companies are going out of their way to cancel cartoons that are more then mindless fun (TFA, now Spectacular Spiderman, and where is S2 of Wolverine and the X-men)...