jeudi 30 janvier 2025

Your Friendly Neighborood Spider-Man: Is this strip really necessary?

Lurking by the social medias and Geek news sources for the announcement of the newer Disney+ animated series based off of the iconic Marvel comic series, Your Friendly Neighborood Spider-Man appear at a trap, not only for the Spidey fans, old and new, but also for the comics artform in general. The artstyle and characters designs are all the more generic, stiff and stoic, if it's possible. What is the most noteworthy thing says about it, it's it was from the same creator of the Emmy winning series Craig of the Creek. Probably a better Amphibi-ian series than anything from Amphibia and its barrage of talkier and grating characters-mouthings can offered.

I don't have Disney+ myself and have no way to subscribe to a platform that make otherwise like a menace for our Canadian broadcasters and platforms. Looking of the first scenes of this, you know this is going to be a failure. This is clearly better than the very unimpressive 2017s Marvel's Spider-Man, but that don't hide the fact that we don't need any newer iteration of how Peter Parker become the Spider-Man hero we all know and love.

To me, the only two adaptations of the Stan Lee and Steve Ditko comic character I would care on are The Spectacular Spider-Man and... the one that have all started, the 1967-70s cartoon! The latter was still a marvel (no pun intented) for that time, and when you clearly known that the scripts were all made by adults at directors or producers and that some veterans animators from the Golden Age (Like Clyde Geromini) have all plays their part to it. But this is a flawed adaptation, with cutting-edge animations that comes all the corner from the Grantway-Lawrence's season 1 episodes, while Season 2 and 3 become a must-have by have Ralph Bakshi and Krantz Films in charge and with some dystopian storylines that are off for this universe but are helped by pretty cool and jazzy music scores and visuals. I would watch it anytime if I could, but unfortunately, all my VHS-taped copies of the series were thrown to the trash when I was been convincing to afford myself a newer 4K TV for replacing my old 4:3 TV set (With a video recorder that does with such minor issues) that I've own since 2003.

Animation Scoop's blogger Jackson Murphy offered a distinctive interview with its maker, Jeff Trammell. you can all read it here. It's to ask if he known for which property he ever working, if that's not sounds like what make Craig successful to audience of all ages, in the same vein as another fan-favorite of the past decade, We Bare Bears. (Which in the most unfortunate time, been soured to be replaced by a "Baby Bears" spin-off.)

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