“So undercooked I think I got salmonella from watching” 

Season 4 Episode 8 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series is “The Return of the Green Goblin”

An iconic villain returns. Yes, that's right. Aunt Anna is back and she's enlisting help from gun-totting strangers she meets in cemeteries to take down Peter Parker once and for all. Also, the Green Goblin is here.

Comic Origins: Jack gives an overview on Harry Osborn's descent into goblin madness, what adaptations have worked, and gives some story recommendations.

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X-Men '97 continued the story from X-Men: The Animated Series, which is like the slightly cooler older sibling of our primary focus on this podcast. So of course we were going to talk about it when they brought it back to life. It wasn't really gone, just having an intergalactic romance with space royalty elsewhere. 

We, however, are a little late to the homecoming. Jack watched it as it came out, while Henry was a late bloomer catching up this year. Together, we are too disorganised to regularly release episodes. Like an X-Men team run by two Morphs.

This episode we talk about every episode of the new series (some spoiler-free thoughts up top before we get into it), the fan reaction, what's in the cards for season two, and what this means for a potential comeback of Spider-Man TAS. Also... we like Gambit now???

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"It's a 500 Days of Blade situation" 

Season 4 Episode 7 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series is “The Vampire Queen”

Part two of our vampire caper means that's (hopefully) a season wrap on Morbius. But before he attempts to make it big in a cancelled pilot spin-off, he's teaming up with the gang to take down a new hypnotic vampire on the scene: Blade's mum!

Some comic book origins this week: Jack gives us a little backstory for Vanessa Brooks before diving into Debra Whitman's comic counterpart: a tale of gaslighting, psychotic episodes, and a few reasons to not date Peter Parker.

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Extra cut convo from our recent episode for being too darn long a tangent.

Finally... we can get Victor Von Doom, the romani man who used science and sorcery to become Marvel's greatest villain put to page, can be done right. OR we could cast Robert Downey Jr, because that is the safest ($80 million) bet. The big news from Marvel out of SDCC this year was that RDJ has been cast as ol' Doom.

Well, we don't like it! We have plenty of reasons to be sceptical, so maybe skip this one if you don't want to hear two guys get pedantic about your favourite actor being cast. Maybe people who like this decision listen to this podcast; we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we could do without.

(This was recorded in early August, a week after the announcement in July)

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"We regret to inform that you it is indeed Morbin' time once again" 

Season 4 Episode 6 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series is “The Awakening”

Oh, it's good to be back! We are now back on our BS in more ways than one, this time recording from different continents for the noble goal of talking about *reads notes* Morbius!? What the heck? Let's go on hiatus again!

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Henry and Jack celebrate 5 years since their first episode with a self-indulgent chat about the origins of this godforsaken podcast, some general chat about the cartoon, comics and movies, a few major life updates, rounded off with listener questions!

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“And then Spider-Man took Scorpion to the diaper factory” 

Season 4 Episode 5 of Spider-Man: The Animated Series is “Partners”

After a break between episodes due to some non-neogenic life events, Henry and Jack are back to talk about maybe the most outrageous episode of the show so far. We've got some spider-creepin', cyborg humilation, and the one and only Crime Boss Baby: Silvermane. As well as investigating the science of baby geniuses and armchair therapising Alisa and Alistair, we get waylaid by the true titular partners of the episode, the neogenic odd couple AKA a cohabiting Vulture and Scorpion. The trenchcoat economy is back in business, baby.

Alongside a cavalcade of returning plot threads from early seasons, we delve into some of the voices behind the cartoon and briefly flashback to some Silvermane comic stories that do not involve talking babies.

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This episode Jack is joined by Diego Crespo + Gene Aversa from The Waffle Press to talk about our favourite comic book adaptations and ask the big questions: what makes a good comic adaptation? How faithful should they be to the source material? Can we survive this conversation without talking about the current Spider-Man comics? (the answer is no).

This week we took suggestions from the lovely weirdos in our Discord. If you want to join in to talk movies, comics, TV, or just share dumb memes without the hateful nonsense of other social media platforms, join us in The Radioactive Spider-Hole.

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Find The Waffle Press here Gene on Twitter Diego on Twitter + check out these episodes: What’s Going on with the Strike? SDCC 2023 + Supporting SAG Across The Spider-Verse Spoiler Discussion w/ Jack The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review (but it’s structured like the movie)

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Oh boy. Did you know that Kraven the Hunter had children? Did you know there are close to 100 KRAVEN CHILDREN? Did you know one of them is a kaiju from outer space?? Well, don’t worry, there’s plenty more to learn from this absurd family history. #TheYearOfKraven

Note: this episode was recorded before it was announced that the Kraven the Hunter movie has been delayed until 2024.

Check out on the blog here for panels, notes and more weird lore.

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Calypso, loving(?) partner to Kraven the Hunter, has a short but wild ride through Marvel Comics history. From her bongo-playing origins in the early 80s to her confusing and unfortunate demise in the 90s, there’s a lot to talk about with this voodoo witch – including but not limited to: a brief history on Marvel going bankrupt, the coming of the edgelord Arachknight, stepson hijinks, devil doppelgangers, and a few more reasons why Henry will never read a comic book. I wonder why half of these issues aren’t on Marvel Unlimited? #TheYearOfKraven

If you want to check out the images we’re talking about, Jack put together all the comic panels for you to check out on the blog here.

Issues referenced: Amazing Spider-Man #209 (1980), Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #65 (1982), Spider-Man #1-5 (1990), Daredevil (1964) #310-11 (1992), Daredevil Annual #9 (1993), Web of Spider-Man #109-10 (1994), Spider-Man ’97 #1 (1997), Spectacular Spider-Man #249-253 Quotes from: Dave Wallace’s review of The Complete Todd McFarlane Spider-Man, Comics Bulletin; 2007 interview between Danny Fingeroth and Todd McFarlane, Write Now #16.

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