World Ultimate Spider-Man animated series discussion thread

[WolfCypher]

I've got some more ideas for Marvel:

Make Doctor Octopus a fat guy with no lower body...instead below his waist is actual tentacles. Disney owns Marvel, why not cross Doc Ock with The Little Mermaid's Ursula?

De-age EVERYONE! Dr. Connors is a high school senior! Aunt May is barely 40! Flash Thompson is five years younger than Peter...he still bullies Peter, though!

Guest stars gallore! Iron Fist! Luck Cage! The Avengers AND The Ultimates! Don't ask, just GO with it! The Fantastic Four! Nova! Daredevil! The X-Men! Squirrel Girl! Wolverine! Red Hulk! Shang-Chi! Ultimate Magneto! Hulk 2099! Always in the same episodes together! There's no room left for Spider-Man!

Spider-Man needs a sidekick. Kid Thwip! He's a fun little SOB that can melt any substance he touches with his hands and repel enemy attacks by making his body putty-like!

Gwen Stacy is Peter's sister. They have a Dexter Morgan/Debra Morgan thing going on.

Introduce Felicia Hardy...as the Vulturess!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Man, ideas are that terrible? Shockwave flash keeps crashing, so I can't watch the video now

 

[spida-man]

check it:

http://marvelousnews.com/index.php?catid=23&itemid=14877

 

[Spidey_62]

That behind the scenes video was cool.

Turns out that Spider-Man LEGO set coming out this year as part of the Super Heroes line? It's for the animated series.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

I've got some more ideas for Marvel:

Make Doctor Octopus a fat guy with no lower body...instead below his waist is actual tentacles. Disney owns Marvel, why not cross Doc Ock with The Little Mermaid's Ursula?

De-age EVERYONE! Dr. Connors is a high school senior! Aunt May is barely 40! Flash Thompson is five years younger than Peter...he still bullies Peter, though!

Guest stars gallore! Iron Fist! Luck Cage! The Avengers AND The Ultimates! Don't ask, just GO with it! The Fantastic Four! Nova! Daredevil! The X-Men! Squirrel Girl! Wolverine! Red Hulk! Shang-Chi! Ultimate Magneto! Hulk 2099! Always in the same episodes together! There's no room left for Spider-Man!

Spider-Man needs a sidekick. Kid Thwip! He's a fun little SOB that can melt any substance he touches with his hands and repel enemy attacks by making his body putty-like!

Gwen Stacy is Peter's sister. They have a Dexter Morgan/Debra Morgan thing going on.

Introduce Felicia Hardy...as the Vulturess!

WHAT ARE YOU WATIING FOR?! You have a guaranteed hit in your hands! Why don't you go there, pitch it in, and make moolah out of it!

 

[Spidey_62]

Paul Dini says in this podcast that there are episodes where Spider-Man sort of goes off on his own being the solo lone wolf he usually is and there are episodes where he's working with the trainee team. http://marvel.com/news/story/18414/download_the_mighty_marvel_podcast_with_jeph_loeb_paul_dini

 

[spida-man]

That behind the scenes video was cool.

Turns out that Spider-Man LEGO set coming out this year as part of the Super Heroes line? It's for the animated series.

AWEOSME! maybe hopefully soon we will start getting lego marvel games!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Deadpool better shows up in the cartoon, and not the Ultimate one

 

[SpaceWay2009]

Don't know if this had been posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tVOY72aU_qI

 

[SpaceWay2009]

Edit

 

[Sebastos]

Great clip of the team.

 

[JoeyConQueso]

It's kind of funny to me how things are going with these Marvel/DC shows. I always thought of Avengers as counteracting Brave And The Bold. Both played off of the silver age comics of their respective companies but Avengers was probably as serious as Brave And The Bold was goofy. Now it's as though Ultimate Spider-Man is counteracting Young Justice. Besides the similar setups, it's as goofy as Young Justice is serious, and Young Justice is pretty damned serious.

 

[spida-man]

I'm already getting used to Drake's voice as spidey.

here's another clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8fKMkx0HQI&feature=g-all-u&context=G26199c0FAAAAAAAAJAA

 

[spida-man]

interview with Stan Lee and Logan Miller(Nova) featuring snippets of new footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_YMPk3mxc

 

[Smoke87]

^I too am getting use to his voice. I think after the first couple of episodes this show will find its niche. So excited for more spidey on the small screen. Sunday sunday SUNDAY!

 

[spida-man]

wow so many thumbs down and negative comments for this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBTk_p8Z5Ks

 

[Spidey_62]

I'm getting slightly more hyped with each new snippet we see some of the action and stuff but I don't like most of the fourth wall breaking. I'm trying to accept that this is a different interpretation of Spidey, and there's always more room for that. Looking forward to the premiere tomorrow with the Marvel Universe block starting and season 2 of Avengers EMH.

Visually this has got to be the most impressive looking Marvel cartoon ever, either this or X-Men: Evolution.

 

[JoeyConQueso]

Another review
http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/42482/ultimate-spider-man-novel-new-take-on-the-web-slinger/

 

[Spidey220987]

Another review
http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/42482/ultimate-spider-man-novel-new-take-on-the-web-slinger/

"The other way that Ultimate Spider-Man strays from the usual is in its unexpected uses of humor. Most animated superhero shows tend to be serious as the grave, with the ones that don't tending to be primarily comedic (Teen Titans or Batman: The Brave and the Bold) if not outright slapstick (The Super Hero Squad Show) or parody (The Tick). Ultimate Spider-Man is aiming to tell a serious superhero story, but it's not afraid to animate Spidey's snarky asides and offhand quips in wildly creative and often quite funny ways. Spider-Man's constant comedic patter is one of the character's trademarks, and Ultimate Spider-Man isn't afraid to exploit the uninhibited medium of animation to get us into Spider-Man's stream-of-consciousness thought process. Admittedly, some of these asides may stray a bit too far into the slapstick and a few too many are dedicated to entirely unnecessary exposition, but on the whole they're more successful than not. If nothing else, I have to give the show's creators a lot of credit for being willing to take such a chance on their hybrid approach, and the fact that it succeeds far more often than not is a testament to the quality of that approach. I expect many will still pooh-pooh the attempts at humor, believing that it demeans or trivializes the character or the show, just as many dismissed Teen Titans for its excesses. To them, I can only say: your loss."

Key lines for me

 

[Spidey220987]

And the closing paragraph of the review:

"Relaunching another show for a character as iconic as Spider-Man is a dangerous balancing act. Change too little and you risk being overly derivative, but change too much and you risk losing what makes the character appealing in the first place. While there are a few stumbles along the way, Ultimate Spider-Man manages to pull off that balancing act quite successfully, leaving me cautiously optimistic for the future of the show. It may not be a third season of The Spectacular Spider-Man, but Ultimate Spider-Man has already staked out new territory from its predecessor and is well on its way to being equally successful."

Everything sounds good so far. Every review I've read has been positive.
Sounds like a solid start. We'll see for ourselves tomorrow

 

[Sebastos]

Can't wait.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

Here's a review from IGN:

http://ie.tv.ign.com/articles/122/1222062p1.html

 

[NCBIII]

Something I don't understand about some of the interviews with the creators and one or two of the reviews I've read so far is that they say the other Spider-Man shows follow a formula where they tell the origin first, and continue from there. The '67 show doesn't have an origin episode until its second season. The 1981 show doesn't have an origin episode. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends has one in its second season. The 90's series doesn't have one until its third season. Spider-Man Unlimited doesn't have one. The 2003 series doesn't have one. The Spectacular Spider-Man has one at the end of its first season. Point is, ALL of the shows begin with him already being Spider-Man. It's not a problem I have or anything, I just don't understand why these people keep saying that the previous animated shows follow a formula that they don't actually follow.

Also, thanks for posting these reviews, everybody!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Don't know if this had been posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tVOY72aU_qI

Makes me wonder what I'll think about this show a little more

 

[JoeyConQueso]

That's because the people saying these things probably aren't quite as knowledgeable of past Spidey shows as you are and have been saying the same stupid things in every interview they take.