'Ultimate Spider-Man' Returns With New Episodes in January

The show isn't that good but it can make me laught at times,so cool.

@Cafeterialoca: Yeah....Weisman was fenomenal,as with writing....Loeb and Quesada have ruined a lot of things....

@PunyParker said:

@Cafeterialoca: I find Spectacular better than the 90s show....Ultimate is a blasphemy to the Ultimate Spider-Man comics...

Spectacular was the best Spider-Man cartoon. Blame Disney for that getting canceled.

And Ultimate cartoon really has nothing to do with the Ultimate comics. Jeph Loeb, the guy who's doing the Marvel cartoons, really doesn't get what makes shows good. For one thing, he said that the Avengers cartoon should focus solely on Iron Man, Thor, Cap and Hulk. Then he said that kids couldn't follow shows with story arcs (Meanwhile, Legend of Korra is a smash hit).

I really wish the people who made these cartoons were, you know, FANS of the stuff they were writing?

@Cafeterialoca: I find Spectacular better than the 90s show....Ultimate is a blasphemy to the Ultimate Spider-Man comics...

@PunyParker: Not just Black Cat, the show doesn't even have any female superheroes besides White Tiger, the character they created for the show!

Even worst, the show just doesn't get what made Spider-Man good. The balance of his double life? His great responsibility? Even his banter to throw the villain off guard? It's got none of that because the only thing the producers took away was "Spider-Man is funny", so they make him a moron and end up ruining his comedic timing.

It's very frustrating. The show is just made by the corporate marketing side of Marvel, not the fan side of Marvel. Compare this to Spectacular Spider-Man. The latter easily blows this show out of the water.

@Cafeterialoca: THANK,FREAKING,YOU!!!

YES Spiderman is a moron in the show and clearly NOT likable....

Kid Show:they havent used Black Cat,cause they would have to put some sexyness in the episode...they would have to make an annoying girly chick to fit the show....

just thought of that....do i get a coockie?....what? , no?....ok

P.S.No good Spiderman cartoon,no good enough SPiderman game out...SSM comic book with a messed-up Spidey.....WHAT'S HAPPENING TO SPIDERMAN???

@mattwing87 said:

This show is great but would be a lot better without a "teenage hero team". Spider-Man is like Batman, a loner, not a leader and works better alone.

It would be cool to see Kitty Pryde, Silver Sable, and Black Widow make a guest appearance.

@AlKusanagi: i feel the same way....what they are doing in "superior"spider-man is the most stupid thing i have ever heart in comic book history...its 500 times worse than the clone saga

@comicfan123 said:

@Cafeterialoca: And would it kill them to acknowledge that Wolverine isn't the only X-Men in existence?

Really? Holy crap; I thought it was just the X-Men movies. I've actually started referring to them (minus X-Men: First Class) as Wolverine & Everyone Else.

Is the show really that bad? And if so, what's so bad about it? I'm genuinely curious to know.

Okay.

1) It's not funny.

2) The show is obviously a lead into the Avengers. With Spider-Man joining SHIELD and whenever the Avengers pop up, Spider-Man freaks out and they make a big deal about it when we had Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes doing those characters properly.

3) Spider-Man is a moron. You know how Spider-Man luck just happened to him? Spider-Man in this show fully deserves EVERY bad thing that happens to him cause he's a judgmental jackass.

4) The show reuses guest stars and villains like no tomorrow. Venom was in 4 episodes, Iron Man in 2, Hulk in 2, Wolverine about to be in another episode, and so on. Was Trapster really the best villain they needed to use twice?

5) Everyone is a moron in this show. Nick Fury goes on how he knows everything about Spider-Man, yet he still doesn't know he doesn't have his license?

6) They fight villains in a food fight. Apparently it's the 90's in this show.

7) The show doesn't even use guest stars that well. Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Cap, Wolverine are too obvious choices, but they reuse them constantly. It was cool for them to use Dr. Strange once, but the show is continually doing what I hate Marvel is doing, only focusing on the already popular character. I really wished they would create other brand heroes.

8) When most of Spider-Man's teenage teammates are more likable than Spider-Man? There's a problem. (Nova is a twat in this show.)

9) The second Venom episode is the worst storytelling. The whole issue has Spider-Man sick, and they stress he's sick throughout the whole episode. Does this give away his identity as Harry sees Spider-Man and Peter both sick? Does he defeat Venom with his cold? Nope. Spider-Man was sick the entire episode for the gag that he gets his teammates sick at the end. I mean, writing 101 people! Your stories should come together in the end! Not just be separate elements!

10) Harry is Venom.

11) More Norman Osborn is the only Spider-Man villain that matters. God, I wish they would use someone else.

12) It's just a very cheap cash in show.

@Cafeterialoca: And would it kill them to acknowledge that Wolverine isn't the only X-Men in existence?

Really? Holy crap; I thought it was just the X-Men movies. I've actually started referring to them (minus X-Men: First Class) as Wolverine & Everyone Else.

Is the show really that bad? And if so, what's so bad about it? I'm genuinely curious to know.

@TenEyedMen: And he was also Nightcrawler in a couple video games. He was also Ra's Al Ghul in Arkham City, played villains in several other excellent DC cartoons, and as you said, was already the Lizard once before.

Knock the show all you want to @RedheadedAtrocitus, but don't hate on the voice actor for no reason.

Seriously I felt I was the only guy who followed this series on comic-vine. I'm looking forward to it, so if anyone's interested in reviews, look to me Lol.

I don't mind the show itself; although it's far too juvenile most of the time. The problem is it's nowhere near as good as the show it replaced, Spectacular Spider-Man. They create one of the best superhero cartoons I've ever seen, end season 2 on an awesome cliffhanger, then cancel it and replace it with this childish, formulaic, slapstick bollocks? Like I said, the show isn't really that bad, but it deserves all the hate it gets until they bring back Spectacular.

@RedheadedAtrocitus said:

...you mean the guy who played THIS character below is going to voice The Lizard?

Suddenly, I really, REALLY can't take this show seriously anymore...

He actually voiced Lizard and Connors in Spectacular Spider-Man before. He actually did a great job.

I'll wait until Green Lantern and Young Justice are back.

The only thing I liked about this show was the character design.

THAT IS ALL.

This show doesn't have the same heart and emotion as "The Spectacular Spider-Man" that Marvel/Disney canceled after a great 1st season.

Shame.

@AlKusanagi: i saw it, it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't as good as the 90's spidey too and the drawings where awful. and it sure was far far away from the brilliantly batman animated sries which, in my eyes, is THE best animated series of all times.

@DarklyDreamingDeadpool: Sounds like you missed Spectacular. It was the most faithful non-comic version of Spidey we've ever gotten. It was the Batman the Animated Series of Spidey shows and possibly the best Marvel animated series out there (although Earth's Mightiest Heroes is up there).

I like the show. It's pretty good, it just needs to focus less on the team, and more on either solo Spidey, or more team-ups. White Tiger and Nova are bad characters, and they should feel bad.

i think this show is charming. its trying so hard, that i kind of root for it. its not really funny at all, but i watch it anyway. maybe its because i dont really care about spider-man, and i think its funny that iron fist is on television somehow.

@RedOwl_1: every spidey show since the good ol 90's one was worse. either they change too much, or they're too childish.

@DarklyDreamingDeadpool said:

I'm predicting it: This is going to get like a really bad bad BAD reality show (you know I'm right if you saw that season ending ....f***)

Still I like to waste my time watching this now and then ..... not too often of course, that would explode my brain :P

Still pissed they cancelled Earth's Mightiest Heroes but kept this thing around. Should have been retooled to just be a show about Deadpool and not Spider-Man. I really, really, really hope that Avengers Assemble doesn't play out like this show. Hopefully its as serious as EMH.

sweet. i actually liked that show.

LOL, I thought everyone hated this show...

horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE show

@MadeinBangladesh said:

SCREW YOU JEPH LEOB

I'd more interested in a Heroes for Hire show...... Marvel make it happen.

@Lvenger: ;)

@Deranged Midget said:

Alright honestly, this show might be far too childish at times but I do find myself actually laughing the majority of the time. So, I'm glad that at least Marvel is trying to keep this alive.

Alright honestly, this show might be far too childish at times but I do find myself actually laughing the majority of the time. So, I'm glad that at least Marvel is trying to keep this alive.

Here's my biggest thing with the series. So Peter says a bunch of times he doesn't want to be in a team, he prefers working alone. Hell his deal with Fury is that he can work alone but nope he has to deal with a team that knows everything about his personal life but he knows nothing about them. I mean really we don't know about their personal lives or anything and Peter has to trust them ?

Also a bunch of other stuff but yeah this show should just be canned, it's just bad.

@darkwingdan: you should try spectacular, despite its artwork its a pretty solid spiderman series

I finally finished watching season one on Netflix... and then I immediately went back and watched the '90s cartoon to make myself feel better about Spidey.

Good, I'll spend all of January banging my head into hard objects in home of developing enough brain damage to fit into the shows apparent target audience

Nice. Hopefully this Spider-Man series actually continues without cancellation, unlike all the previous popular Spider-Man tv shows (i.e. Spider-Man the Animated Series, Spider-Man unlimited, Spider-Man MTV, and Spectacular Spider-Man).

I tried watching the first few episodes, but I felt it was too childish for my tastes. One of the biggest problems these kind of cartoons have is they never reflect the mood or events of the comics they're based upon.

If you don't want people to think comics are just for kids, then don't make cartoons based on them so childish. The cartoons are reaching a wider audience.

the sooner this bastard child of disney and jeph loeb is cancelled the better

Nobody gives a.....you know...

Fire Loeb!

Avengers earths mightiest heroes got cancelled , but this HORRIBLE show gets another season ? WHY ?

Honestly the show's not as bad as most say, personally I like the idea of Spider-Man being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D. as it's something new not to mention makes sense that Nick Fury would see the potential in Spidey and want him trained to be the best he can be. While I'm not the biggest fan of his team of superheroes (maybe except for Nova, I like Nova) I don't really mind it as much as it's giving lesser known characters some spotlight (which I'm always glad when Marvel does that).
 
Probably the biggest issue with the series is the whole breaking of the fourth wall every five seconds. Most of the stuff Spider-Man stops the whole show to tell the audience could easily be explained through simply narration and still get the point across. Along with that, I feel that it takes away from the storyline as it destroyed any serious moment when a goofy cartoony version of Spider-Man pops up on screen doing some silly way to explain what's going on with such-and-such scene or who so-and-so villain is. Though I won't like, there are a few times those scenes get a chuckle out of me, but it's like once per-episode but it's the fifteen other scenes that messes the whole show up.
 
I do believe that this series could be better if they would simply do away with the silly/childish fourth-wall breaking, give more on classic Spider-Man villains, and most of all focus on actual character development that makes us care about these characters. We also need more serious storylines, not dark and gritty just something that makes fans go "dude, that was awesome!" Which was something that made Spectacular Spider-Man such a great series, as it had many serious moments that made you fear and care for the characters on screen.

That show's still on air? Will they please cancel it?

where spectacular spider man...

WHY?!??!?!?!

You know something? I had heard this show was to be similar to Batman: The Brave and The Bold in that Spider-Man would be teaming up with various heroes every episode in a light hearted manner. I was looking forward to that. I even DEFENDED it before it came out and said it could be just as good as Spectacular Spider-Man.

Well look how well that turned out!!! I won't deny, Drake Bell does a DECENT Spider-Man and Spidey himself is pretty much himself, the show fails on the comedy and plays havoc with what universe it's supposed to be set in!!!

Is it the Ultimate Universe? Is it the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Is it a fusion of these two plus the mainstream Marvel U? I SURE AS HELL DON'T KNOW!!!

And that brings me to another thing. Luke Cage and Danny Rand as teenagers and ROOKIES at that is just hurtful to me. The new Nova? I won't judge since a character of the same name will be replacing Richard Rider as Nova in the comics, but he's not AS annoying as I thought he would be. Though I do appreciate them adding White Tiger in. She's a character that, while I haven't read much of, I think deserves a little better treatment,

The thing that hurts the most about this show is that we had to lose one of the best Spider-Man shows we've ever had just so this cheap imitation could air.

Oh great more A lister superheroes who saw that coming, its not like Marvel has intersting and obsucre characters that havn't been to the television screen for decades to none at all. Also god forbid MArvel actually used teenage superheroes such as runaways, young avengers , avengers academy, amandeous cho, instead of getting adult heroes and make them teenagers. If thats not bad enough they could use thier tragic pasts and make them grow as a team but just made them as steorotypes