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Everyone's favorite friendly neighborhood wall-crawler enters a whole new level of awesome with this new series, fun as the other shows were. Shining a new light on the hero's life, The Spectacular Spider-Man digs deep into the comic book world while presenting new twists to the classic characters of Peter Parker's life like Gwen Stacy, Aunt May, Eddy Brock, Doctor Connors/Lizard, and all of the classic super villains.
Plot: It's been a few months since the genetically-altered spider bit socially-awkward nerd Peter Parker and now school is now back in session. As he struggles with maintaining both his friendships and life, Spidey confronts one of the most popular rogue galleries in history, some villains of which are created to squash the web-head. It's all in a day's work for the spectacular Spider-Man!
First off, the action scenes are some of the best I've seen in any super hero series, the combatants going all over the place, smashing a few things, and beating the living crap out of each other. The voice cast is just phenomenal; Josh Keaton nailing the character of Spidey, Steve Blum delivering the insanity of the Green Goblin, Clancy Brown bringing the nobility of Capt. George Stacy and brutality of Rhino, etc. Music is also a real treat due to it's catchy tone and fast pace, though the theme song initially gave me slightly mixed feelings (not anymore). Despite the rather simplistic artwork, the design of the characters are great, especially Doctor Octopus, Vulture, and Lizard.
Character development is definitely one of the stronger points of this series. Not only is it Peter's journey through life, but unexpected characters like Liz Allen and Flash Thompson get their own little back stories and journey's of their own. Surprisingly, comedy is done very well as there were moments that actually made me laugh, some of which coming from jolly old J. Jonah Jameson. Fans who read the comics will also notice a lot of recognizable moments and dialog taken right out of the classic panels of the old comics.
While there are a couple things to nitpick around here, The Spectacular Spider-Man will be more than satisfying to watch. It's a shame a season 3 will never come thanks to freaking Disney and its fairly disappointing "Ultimate Spider-Man" series. Overall, I give this show an eight for entertainment value and an extra point for being extremely faithful to the comics. In the words of Stan Lee, "EXCELSIOR!"
score 9/10
kevinxirau 31 August 2012
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