That 90s Spider-Man Show

Season 2 Episode 14: The Final Nightmare Recap – 3:23 Review – 31:02 Surprise – 37:44 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! If you want those Ne...

Season 2 Episode 13: Shriek of the Vulture Episode Recap – 2:17 Review – 28:57 Comic Origins – 35:41 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...

Season 2, Episode 12: Ravages of Time Recap – 2:58 Review – 28:43 Comic Origins – 33:50 Our Spider-Man PS1 Lets Play 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 K...

Season 2 Episode 11: The Tablet of Time Recap: 3:35 Review: 32:16 Comic Origins: 38:28 Spencer Smythe is rolling in his grave after his son makes a humanoid ultimate battle robot, J3 is back on the air, Hammerhead is butting into a gang war over a magical artefact and Silvermane is… old. Super old. The Kingpin shows off his glorious fat muscles and we get side-tracked talking about his diet. Meatb...

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. Check out our Patreon to listen to the full retrospective on the Blade franchise and other bonus episodes: Listen to The Waffle Press on Spotify/iTunes/YouTube/Soundcloud! Waffle Press Twitter / Diego's Twi...

Season 2 Episode 10: The Immortal Vampire. More like the immortal plotline, amirite? Recap: 1:59 Review: 27:29 Comic Origins: 33:14 This week we get to see Morbius finally evolve into his true Calamity Jared Form, but only after we cross off every single square on our Morbius bingo cards so many times that it catches fire. Meanwhile, Blade and Det. Lee have a meet-cute, Peter is a dumb-dumb and Wh...

Back in 1998, the superhero genre wasn't nearly as powerful – and then Blade came along. We look back and review Blade after revisiting (finally) as a new bonus episode. Is it iconic garbage, a camp masterpiece, or something else entirely? Some podcasts are always tryin' to ice-skate uphill, huh? If you want to check out our retrospectives for Blade II and Blade: Trinity, and subscribe to a variet...

Season 2 Episode 9: Blade The Vampire Hunter Recap: 2:02 Review: 32:39 Comic Origins: 37:17 Get your Morbius bingo cards ready, because we have even more naval-gazing from everyone's "favourite" artificial vampire. We also have the introduction of Blade the Blampire Blunter, delivering some Blade-sploitation for all you suckers. After that, we dive into his comic origins, starting with Tomb of Dra...

Season 2 Episode 8: 'Duel of the Hunters' Recap: 3:33 Review: 39:37 Comic Origins: 42:19 The Punisher has his hands full with Spider-Man after our hero transformed into a horrifying, dopey monster – something he still thinks he has the ability to sort by himself. Hey, maybe the man's just got a lot of free time after his family picnics have been cancelled. Too soon? He's joined by Kraven, fresh of...

"Oh god" – Henry, every few seconds this episode. A Sandman and a Hydro Man walk into a bar, and what follows is the deepest of shames from the void itself. We've got Travis Rave, a cavalcade of King Kong references, the worst Broadway musical of all time and the most confusing sentence in history. This edition of Weird Lore Bullshit Corner covers The Amazing Spider-Man #217-218, as well as a look...

Season 2 Episode 7: Enter The Punisher This week Frank Castle turns up to complicate things, just as the ol' webhead is grappling with four new grapplers himself. On top of things, we've still got the Magical Mr. Morbius to contend with. Then we'll see what happens when Jem & the Holograms go dark, when 3-D animation invades Aunt May's home and a surprise appearance from F.L.U.D.D. We also touch o...

A look back on all the best movies and TV we watched last year. 2019 was a garbage year that we're more than happy to leave behind – but there were some good things to distract us: Booksmart Little Women have their Knives Out, The Irishman is living the High Life, Beale St is Burning and maybe the real Parasite is Us. Warning: we talk Star Wars, maybe for the last time. Also covered: Midsommar, Jo...

Season 2 Episode 6: Morbius Episode Recap – 7:14 Comic Origins – 52:14 Morbius Trailer Discussion – 1:06:36 Spidey's having some kidney problems, Mary Jane's getting ghosted, and Michael Morbius is shooting radioactive rays at blood in a room full of vampire bats. What could go wrong? Well, it turns out that a lot could go wrong – leading to a few extra limbs, horrifying octopus palm suckers, and...

Season Two Episode 5: Mutant's Revenge We've got a crazy episode for you guys this week, with the X-Men crossover two-parter coming to a close with plenty of buddy cop shenanigans, trash fights, awful puns, henchman juggling and more hallways than a Netflix Marvel series. Jack talks reading The Clone Saga, Henry gets turned into the Beast, Hobgoblin records his own voice acting, Ray Winstone makes...

Season 2 Episode 4: The Mutant Agenda X-Cuse me, true believers – we've got another episode to talk about, this time the most ambitious crossover in history; the birth of a televisual universe; a racism allegory that goes off the rails; a cheese nightmare, if you will. Uncle Ben ghost stealth takedown's included. Confused? So are we. This episode brings Spidey to the X-Men's mansion, where he is c...

Season 2 Episode 3: Hydro Man Face front, true believers! This week we're talking about Morris Bench aka Spider-Man's most compelling and fascinating villain! Just kidding – he's Hydro-Man, a D-Lister that this episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series somehow found a way to make interesting. How do they do it, you ask? By putting the Bro in Hybro Man and talking about… male entitlement? This epi...

This week we're discussing the potential Sinister Six movie and how it could play out in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Both Jack and Henry have their own ideas for what a Sinister Six movie and which villains should turn up – but only one of them made notes, and by notes we mean NOTES. So what will this all entail? Will it be about Tony Stark again? Will Jack be talking about the Man-Thing… again...

Season 2 Episode 1: 'The Battle of the Insidious Six' Face front, true believers! We've got one hell of an episode for you, with the conclusion to the Insidious Six's Matchstick Men con-gone-wrong. First off though – check out this bonus clip we edited out for time from this episode: Spider-Man is unmasked, Chameleon is letting off steam, Rhino's like a wrecking ball, Scorpion is still getting bul...

Season 2 Episode 1: 'The Insidious Six' We're back for the second season and jumping right into the Sinister – I mean INSIDIOUS Six. The Neogenic plot gun is looming overhead, but first the webhead's greatest villains (and Shocker) have banded together to create an all-new boyband, headsets included. This leads to a lot of in-fighting, buffoonery, and a ludicrous caper worthy of the Coen Brothers....

Comic Con and D23 brought all kinds of announcements for Marvel, with Phase Four of the MCU looking to be pretty interesting. Henry and Jack weigh in with their thoughts on the movies and shows lined up, what we think they'll entail, and what the overall arc of the universe will be from now on – all while giving Hawkeye the side-eye. #ForWizardsOnly Comic panels + further notes at: MCU Phase 4 Upd...

Sony have taken their ball and gone home. Or at least, that's what it looks like. It turns out that Spider-Man: Far From Home will be the fifth and final appearance of Peter Parker in the MCU, after the deal made between Disney and Sony fell through. There's been a strong reaction from the fandom ever since this news hit – but what really happened? Jack and Henry talk about who's to blame, discuss...

After one foolish season of the show and some fool flashbacks to previous segments, we're back on the weird lore BS wagon with another fool/entry in the bizarre series in which we dive into the strangest Spider-Man comics. This week we're talking about Greg Salinger, aka 'The Foolkiller'. But then also the Foolkiller, and the Foolkiller. It will all make sense. Kind of. Comic panels and other addi...

We're re-releasing some of our old Weird Lore BS Corner segments from our early episodes, before we start recording them as separate minisodes. This episode originally appeared as part of Episode 5: Everybody Loves Mysterio. This week we're looking at Martin Blank aka The Gibbon. One of Spidey's most ridiculous foes also gets a two-issue arc and an (unwilling) team-up with Kraven the Hunter. He do...

As a bonus episode for season one, we made the fatal error of wading into the YouTube comment sections for everything related to the first season of Spider-Man: The Animated Series. Going episode-by-episode through this internet nonsense, we came across a lot of great talking points and strange subjects to cover, including: Thicc supporting characters, lizard fetishists, taco physiques, symbiote l...

We've come to the end of the first season of Spider-Man: The Animated Series, and aside from a couple of bonus episodes on the way – it's the end of our first season too. Jack and Henry sum up what they thought about the first season after revisiting it all these years later, and discuss their favourite (and least-favourite) episodes. A podcast for no one. If we get anything wrong, a wizard did it...