Man, cartoons take a long time!
With live action, they announce the “Threat Matrix” series in May and it’s on the air the following September.
But we’ve been hearing about this new “Spider-Man” cartoon since 2001. “Daria” was still airing. The “Spider-Man” movie was still six months in the future. It’s been a long dang wait.
If you’re a fan of comic-book writer Brian Michael Bendis, you may enjoy this enterprise, which employs Bendis as a producer and seems to draw to some degree from Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man version of the hero. (Herc, for his part, finds Bendis the most overrated ubiquitous quack this side of Rob Liefeld. I was a colossal fan of Ultimate X-Men until Bendis replaced big-brained Mark Millar about two issues ago. Now Ultimate X-Men is every inch as mediocre as the monthly Superman titles. If I see Bendis at ComicCon I’m going to kick him in the nuts.)
Well, a lot I know. Entertainment Weekly gives “Spider-Man”) an “A-“ and says:
But we’ve been hearing about this new “Spider-Man” cartoon since 2001. “Daria” was still airing. The “Spider-Man” movie was still six months in the future. It’s been a long dang wait.
If you’re a fan of comic-book writer Brian Michael Bendis, you may enjoy this enterprise, which employs Bendis as a producer and seems to draw to some degree from Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man version of the hero. (Herc, for his part, finds Bendis the most overrated ubiquitous quack this side of Rob Liefeld. I was a colossal fan of Ultimate X-Men until Bendis replaced big-brained Mark Millar about two issues ago. Now Ultimate X-Men is every inch as mediocre as the monthly Superman titles. If I see Bendis at ComicCon I’m going to kick him in the nuts.)
Well, a lot I know. Entertainment Weekly gives “Spider-Man”) an “A-“ and says:
Well, a lot I know. Entertainment Weekly gives “Spider-Man”) an “A-“ and says:
I had more fun watching this slippery-smooth Spidey than I did noting Tobey Maguire's strenuous exertions in the feature film.