Walloping Websnappers! A Spider-Man Podcast

Spider-Man goes to…Moscow? The beginning of season 5’s longest arc is a weird swerve, where Aunt May is central to a global conspiracy involving Peter Parker’s parents as double agent spies for Russia, a Nazi doomsday weapon, S.H.I.E.L.D. cover-ups and Silver Sable kidnappings, Robbie Robertson acting sus, and Kingpin reuniting the Insidious Six. It’s…a lot! We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated...

The final season of the iconic Spider-Man: The Animated Series begins with a chaotically fun celebration! Peter and Mary Jane’s wedding brings out a slew of recurring characters and villains for one last hurrah, from Harry Osborn threatening MJ with a Goblin bomb to marry him to Black Cat teaming up with Kingpin to fight Scorpion and an army of robots. We talk the hilarious Jameson/Fisk wedding wa...

Spectacular comic artist Shadia Amin ( Spider-Ham, Shiny Misfits ) joins us to revisit the fourth season of Spider-Man: The Animated Series , a season of partners, returns, and a buff Black Cat! We discuss the ways the women in Spidey’s life are treated, including the disappeared, returned, and kidnapped Mary Jane – and how it drives Peter Parker and Harry Osborn to weird places. Plus, plenty of t...

Fox Kids expert Jessalyn Matthews jumps into a dimensional vortex with us to revisit Spider-Man: The Animated Series season 3! We talk about the portals, Goblins, bridges, and fatherly sins of the stellar finale – including movie-influenced perceptions of The Spot and Madame Web, creative workarounds for violence and death, Mark Hamill’s Hobgoblin, and of course, that time Green Goblin made Mary J...

It's the season of spooky! Merrilee O'Neil morbs out with us to revisit the monsters and body horror of the dark, influential second season of Spider-Man: The Animated Series . That includes the iconic Man-Spider and his fight with Kraven and Punisher, the first animated appearance of Blade that forever changed the character – and arguably led to the creation of the MCU – and of course, ol...

In the leadup to our coverage of the final season and in celebration of the 30th anniversary, we’re revisiting the first four seasons of Spider-Man: The Animated Series! Joshua Moore (author of the upcoming Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Took Over the World) joins us to discuss the first season and its iconic black costume story that forever changed Venom symbiote adaptations. We talk the st...

Spidey Goes West? Not exactly, but how about a rodeo at Madison Square Garden with an evil clown and robot bull named Diablo, a connoisseur of cowboy collectibles named Wild Willie Wilson, and a masked bandit riding a rocket-powered steed? The pieces of this mystery may not fall quite into satisfying place, but we sure have a great time trying to put it all together. We’re watching Spider-Man (198...

For the third time, Doctor Doom tries to take over the world via the United Nations. This time, his hodge-podge plan includes: A mysterious god-like regular guy named Goron who shoots eye beams that do anything and everything, giant fruits and vegetables, NASA, a robot duplicate that appears for one scene, penis mushrooms, an undercover cop, and nuclear missiles. You decide if it makes any sense!...

We were not looking forward to returning to the 1981 cartoon…so color us surprised when we watched this fun, wacky episode with a post-modern sensibility and self-aware humor! Spidey goes on a stunt show with a silly villain named Stuntman who looks and acts like a hardcore edgelord 90s cyborg, and it only gets funnier from there. We’re watching Spider-Man (1981): Season 1, Episode 11: “Triangle o...

We venture to a galaxy far, far away for this Glitterjaw Crossover with Cass and Tommy from Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast ! We talk about the time Spider-Woman fought a darksaber-wielding space villain from the dark side who looks suspiciously like Darth Vader. Plus, we discuss familiar-looking starships, Billy starting the Rebel Alliance, droids and Gamorrean henchman, Disney’s The Black Ho...

Our odyssey with Otto Octavius possessing the pilfered body of Peter Parker progresses! And the Avengers are beginning to notice... or are they? In this unlocked Patreon episode, we discuss the difference between Otto's "handling" of Massacre and his response to Screwball & Jester; how things might've gone differently if Tony, Hank, Reed, or literally any scientist superhero...

Remember that time Doc Ock switched bodies with Peter Parker and it lasted for, like, two whole years? Over on Patreon, we're currently going through all of The Superior Spider-Man comics for the very first time, and now we're releasing part one of our conversation on the main feed! How does this compare to the 2017 Marvel's Spider-Man animated adaptation? How does Otto trick Spider-Ma...

Our midseason finale of the 1967 Spider-Man toon has it all – a sorcerer from the depths of time, a giant sexy imp in a speedo, fantastical battles made from brand new animation, and the triumphant return of Susan! James (from Marsh Land Media and the podcasts Mostly Speakin’ Sentai and This Movie’s Gay ) joins us to talk the magical hijinks, along with Letterboxd, podcast reviews, The Mask , and...

Oh, you thought this show was weird before? Aaron Reynolds, creator of the fucking iconic Effin Birds , joins us when Spidey hops into a spaceship and heads into the completely unrelated sci-fi cartoon Rocket Robin Hood ! And despite this episode only existing for cost-cutting measures, we’re blessed with laser-eyed ants, wacky giant animals, and a rad villain in Doctor Manta. Plus, we dig into Ca...

Haven’t we seen this before? Tyler and Nate of Animorphing Time , The Bruce Campbell Podcast , and Hate Speech join us for the return to the subterranean world of those furry blue Molemen and mostly a recycling of footage we’ve seen before… and somehow it’s more coherent than most episodes this season! Plus, we talk little green elf goblins, parallels to real-world foreign policy, and how capitali...

Gavin and Louie from The Mixed Reviews (the best film podcast!) are here to help us unravel a convoluted plot from the ‘67 Spidey toon, which includes a flamboyant villain named Shakespeare making gangsters wear gorilla suits and shooting liquid latex to steal a precious diamond! Plus, Peter gets very close to another boy in the shower, and four queers try to explain how baseball works.   We’re wa...

To celebrate our 5th anniversary, we did another AMA! Go behind the scenes as we talk about the gritty early days of podcasting, including corrupted tracks, sweaty podcast forts, and dying laptops. Plus, we answer listener questions about our memorabilia and collectibles, anime and tokusatsu, Godzilla comic book mashups, FMK with 90s Spider-Man villains, fanfiction and ships, and much more!  Websi...

Spider-Man ventures underground to fight a subterranean society of furry blue people in this send-up to Jules Verne! David from the Are You My Mother and Gimmicks podcasts joins us for this fantastical episode with stolen banks, an out-of-nowhere Scooby-Doo twist, and yet another resentful and mean Peter Parker. We’re watching Spider-Man (1967): Season 2, Episode 5: “Menace from the Bottom of the...

Peter Parker tries to join the school football team and woo his latest love interest, but the teen drama is rudely interrupted when an airship-themed villain kidnaps the star player! The delightful Merrilee returns for this oddly structured episode of the ‘67 Spidey toon that includes Skymaster, one of our new favorite original villains who could rival Doctor Doom as a top-tier Marvel villain and...

Spidey faces… the final act of Avengers: Age of Ultron ?! Enrique from (Un)Popped Podcast joins us as an evil green-skinned scientist makes the island of Manhattan float in the sky and forces Peter to miss his date! We talk about Enrique’s experiences watching the ‘67 Spider-Man cartoon in El Salvador, how the visuals of this show help distract from the recycled animation and lighter narrative, Pe...

Spider-Man 1967 continues its rebooted story as Peter Parker gets a job at the Daily Bugle! Chris Cummins of Sci-Fi Explosion returns for this surprisingly grounded episode, which has Spidey face off against the first animated appearance of Kingpin to uncover a pharmaceutical conspiracy that’s surprisingly relevant to today. Plus, we talk about how modern weird internet comedy might have drawn ins...

We’re going back to the beginning in more ways than one, as the second season of the original 1967 Spider-Man cartoon reboots itself! With a brand new animation studio headed by prolific counterculture icon Ralph Bakshi (pre- Fritz the Cat and Lord of the Rings ), the new season starts off with a faithful retelling of Spidey’s origin, complete with psychedelic sequences, watercolor backgrounds, an...

Did you know we almost got a mini- Spectacular Spider-Man reunion in 2012? We’re covering the infamous episode of the critically-acclaimed Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes series… the one where Josh Keaton’s big Spider-Man appearance was re-recorded by Drake Bell for frustrating reasons. But despite the minor controversy overshadowing it, this episode shows off the clever storytelling, sharp cha...

All of this season’s major threads come to head (literally) when the Doc Ock-inhabited Living Brain attempts to switch bodies with Spider-Man – all alongside a fast-paced battle through a supervillain prison, a proper Spider-Men/Spider-Girl team-up, and an appropriately bleak start to this show’s Superior Spider-Man adaptation. We’re watching Marvel’s Spider-Man (2017): Season 2, Episode 13: “The...

Spider-Man spends this episode being the most relatable he’s ever been – very, very tired and exhausted. As Peter is forced to get some rest, Miles takes the reins to solve a mystery with his new robot buddy Living Brain, who is definitely not evil and definitely not behind all of this! We’re watching Marvel’s Spider-Man (2017): Season 2, Episode 12: “Brain Drain”. Website ⁠ | ⁠Patreon⁠ | ⁠Discord...