New season, new school year, new showrunners… new Doc Ock? Otto seeks redemption and a super-science device gets stolen by Wild Pack in the REAL season premiere of the 2017 Spider-Man . But we get hung up on this episode’s messy historical science “facts”, Peter’s money issues coupled with the lack of Harry, the continued underuse of Miles, and what feels like the show steering in a more classical Spider-Man direction that has us conflicted! We’re watching Marvel’s Spider-Man (2017): Season 2, E...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 41 min
We begin the second season of the 2017 Spider-Man series with less of a season premiere and more of an interlude episode made up of low-stakes vignettes about summer! While Peter tries (and fails) to have a successful beach day, baseball game, concert, and camping trip, we dig into the shift in showrunners – and how that may have affected this episode’s unexpected Daily Bugle ending. We’re watching Marvel’s Spider-Man (2017): Season 2, Episode 1: “How I Thwipped My Summer Vacation”. Website | ...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 26 min
The origin trilogy of Amazing Friends ends with an incredibly faithful adaptation of Spider-Man’s debut! Chris Cummins of Sci-Fi Explosion joins us for one of this show’s best episodes, a gorgeously animated and emotional love letter to Spidey and his friends that also features a hot Shocker who was definitely a gay awakening for many people. We’re watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: Season 2, Episode 3: “Along Came Spidey”. More from Chris: Sci-Fi Explosion on Twitch Instagram and Twit...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Firestar’s origin story pits Angelica against one of the most devious, megalomaniacal, pure evil criminal masterminds ever seen – Bonnie the Cheerleader! Greg Leatherman (of Very Random Encounters and It’s Super Effective ) joins for this fun Carrie homage and X-Men crossover that highlights why we love Firestar! We’re watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: Season 2, Episode 2: “A Fire-Star is Born”. More from Greg: The Mystery Business on Kickstarter Very Random Encounters It’s Super Effe...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Our amazing friends have joined us for this three-episode season of Amazing Friends origin stories! Dr. Christopher Roman, author of Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fan Fiction: A Fastball Special , brings his background as a professor specializing in comics studies and queer theory to analyze this depiction of one of the gayest X-Men – Iceman! And while there’s plenty of queerness to pull from Bobby’s coming out story (told through a futuristic mind probe…for some reason) it’s also split with ...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min
We’ve started a new podcast collective: Glitterjaw ! This collective features queer creators talking about media of all kinds, and we answer listener questions about Glitterjaw’s origins, how we came up with the name and logo, our goals, and more! Plus, we talk about our favorite sandwiches, queer characters we relate to, adventures at Dragon Con, and how we make time to podcast. Check out the great Glitterjaw shows: glitterjaw.com Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us : @WallopingWebPod...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 41 min
We’re celebrating 200 episodes with the very first live-action Spider-Man film – the pilot movie for 1977’s The Amazing Spider-Man series! It’s a strange mixed bag, which includes a good performance by Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker, a divisive J. Jonah Jameson, a weird lack of Uncle Ben (and conflict for Peter), a shockingly dark premise from an otherwise boring villain, and some ambitious stunts and effects. We’re watching The Amazing Spider-Man ’s pilot movie, Spider-Man (1977). Website ...
Sep 05, 2023•2 hr 18 min
Spider-Man’s first ever appearance in live action might not be where you’d expect! We’ve ventured back to the 1970s with the educational children’s sketch comedy show The Electric Company and its “Spidey Super Stories” segments, which pit a silent Spidey who only communicates with word balloons against puntastic comedy villains (including a Dracula played by Morgan Freeman and a cake-sitting Yeti). It’s low-budget silliness and absurdity at its finest! We’re watching a compilation of sketches th...
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 42 min
A season we’ve loved ends on a strangely lackluster – but still interesting – note, with the first ever animated appearance of Hobie Brown as The Prowler, voiced by Tim Russ! We get some noir-style flashbacks and narration, but we don’t get the social commentary or characterization we were hoping for. Plus, we discuss our overall feelings on this fun, weird, and unexpected penultimate season! We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 11: “Partners in Danger Chapter XI: Th...
Aug 22, 2023•2 hr 1 min
Peter and Mary Jane are getting married in a month (!!!) and they immediately have their new dynamic tested thanks to an underground society of lizard people living in the sewers! And through a very classic sci-fi tale, we get to see women like MJ, Debra Whitman, and Margaret Connors absolutely kick ass. We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 10: “Partners in Danger Chapter X: The Lizard King”. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebPod o...
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Mary Jane tries to move past her traumatic disappearance and amnesia by, of course, getting a role in a stunt-heavy blockbuster! Mysterio, pirate skeleton robots, and hands-down one of the coolest villains we’ve ever gotten make this theatrical, Phantom of the Opera meets Terminator romp also an extra queer affair, and we’re here for it all. We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 9: “Partners in Danger Chapter IX: The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson”. Website | ...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 58 min
Grab your late night pizzas and put on those Goblin gloves for one of the show’s best outings! A combination of bad-friending from Peter, prodding from an extradimensional Green Goblin, and a teensy bit of sanity slippage makes Harry take up the Goblin mantle… and the poor guy STILL gets berated by his dad about it. Packed into this is a Punisher subplot and even a case of mistaken identity that results in Peter Parker riding a Goblin glider! We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: seaso...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Nichelle Nichols voices Blade's mom, a vampire who shoots a vampire-creating laser beam into a disco ball in a nightclub that turns everyone into vampires. Honestly, what else could you ask for? There’s a ton packed into this fun horror episode that teeters on the edge of camp, while finding closure for Morbius, Terri Lee, and Blade and even functioning as a send-off for Black Cat. We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 7: “Partners in Danger Chapter VII: The Vampire Q...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 45 min
It is once again morbin’ time, and everyone’s trying to figure out what to do with this hunky sleepy bat monster! This homage to gothic romance and Universal horror plays up the melodrama and soap opera, with Black Cat and Debra Whitman both fighting for love, a self-loathing Morbius monster just trying to survive, and the bad guys really just getting in the way. We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 6: “Partners in Danger Chapter VI: The Awakening”. Website | ...
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min
You know it’s gonna be bad when the logline is “Black Cat is kidnapped”. It only gets worse in an episode that bizarrely casts edgy queer comedian Sandra Bernhard in a thankless girlfriend role for Scorpion, makes an evil baby the primary villain without being funny enough to pull it off, and backslides characters arcs for no reason. We speculate on what may have happened in the production process to create this mess, and theorize an alternate version centering Black Cat and the other women in t...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 48 min
The men are GOING THROUGH IT, and Black Cat is the only person who can help these dudes actually process their feelings. Kraven’s return, a mysterious monster, and Spidey’s bottled up rage and grief over Mary Jane turn this episode into a case where the “just talk to each other and go to therapy” mantra is actually genuinely the whole point of the story! We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 4: “Partners in Danger Chapter IV: The Return of Kraven”. Website | ...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Felicia Hardy…Super Soldier?! As the feline felon debuts, we break down this unique take on Black Cat – including Jennifer Hale’s performance, her weird shape-changing, and why her role, timing, and new Captain America-adjacent background ended up making a ton of sense in the overall arc of this series. We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 1: “Partners in Danger Chapter III: The Black Cat”. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebP...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Meow! We finally get some puuurfect Felicia Hardy lore as we learn about her cat burglar father and his surprising ties to Captain America in this dense spy thriller featuring S.H.I.E.L.D., a Doc Ock/Kingpin team-up, and for some reason, a whole lot of sticky goo. We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 2: “Partners in Danger Chapter II: The Cat”. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on Twitter , Instagram , and ...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 33 min
We’re finally back in the 90s! The fourth season premiere of Spider-Man: The Animated Series zooms past the tragic aftermath of last season and pivots to a noir-style mystery, as Jigsaw Jameson investigates the framing of Robbie Robertson in a great start to this continuity-heavy season! We’re watching Spider-Man: The Animated Series: season 4, episode 1: “Partners in Danger Chapter I: Guilty”. Source: Archived John Semper Usenet posts Website | Patreon | Discord Contact u...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Okay, let’s do this one more time! We’ve got our full spoiler thoughts about Across the Spider-Verse, and big surprise–it’s a jaw-droppingly good work of art. We talk about the boundaries this movies pushes both visually and in its storytelling, the meta commentary on Spider-Man canon, upgrading Gwen to dual-protagonist without losing focus on Miles, Inspector Singh being the hottest man alive, the love for Spectacular Spider-Man and Spider-Man Unlimited, and of course, all those Spider-people! ...
Jun 06, 2023•2 hr 13 min
Is it weird that we’re doing an episode of a somewhat forgotten Fantastic Four cartoon that was a joint French/Canadian/American production from the 00s? Maybe! But we have a lot of fun with this comedic episode that kinda sorta technically features Peter Parker, and talk about the stylized designs, treating the F4 as a sitcom family, a hilarious use of the obviously-villainous Frightful Four as a fake hero team, and more! We’re watching Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes: Season 1, Episode...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Because we just need more Miles Morales on the main feed, we’re releasing three of our Patreon comics episodes! We cover the first two years of the Miles Morales: Spider-Man title by Saladin Ahmed, which include Javier Garrón’s gorgeous art and beautiful renditions of big-bodied men, reinventions of classic villains like Rhino and Vulture, an Ultimate-based villain in Ultimatum, a new baby sister for Miles, and some frustrating Marvel tie-in events. Reading List: Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018)...
May 23, 2023•2 hr 21 min
It’s time for another AMA, and this time we’re answering questions from our listeners AND from each other! We go in deep about Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always , try to cast Kraven: The Musical , talk way more about our favorite and least favorite colors than you’d expect, and reminisce about the podcast, including that April Fools Midtown episode that we still aren’t sure anyone ever listened to. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on ...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 57 min
Things get mystical when Spidey has to team up with Doctor Strange and Iron Fist to fight a supernatural villain that puts the whole city to sleep – but despite how weird this show can be, it doesn’t get weird enough for what should be a trippy dream episode! We talk about an interesting twist on Peter’s Uncle Ben guilt, Strange’s awful hair, and how this episode kind of throws Iron Fist under the bus. We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, Episode 13: “Strange”. Website | Pat...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 34 min
FINALLY! Doc Ock gets the spotlight in an episode that helps us better understand this strange version of Otto Octavius, while also posing a ton of unanswered questions. But something we don’t like? The episode’s horrible lesson about boundaries, privacy, surveillance, and work/life balance for poor teenaged Peter Parker. We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, Episode 12: “Me Time”. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on Twitter , Inst...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 53 min
It’s time for another Venom episode, and this time S.H.I.E.L.D. is involved and Norman Osborn is a very proud dad! We discuss whether this “Mytharc” approach to the Venom storyline works or if would have been better as a consecutive three-parter, how making Harry into Venom has unlocked new and interesting shades of Osborn stories, and why we’re frustrated at how this show sells out (and seems to not care about) its own team of supporting heroes. We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, Ep...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 18 min
BODY SWAP! Peter Parker and Wolverine switch places in this incredibly fun and wacky adaptation of a famous Ultimate Spider-Man comics story, and it’s full of great jokes, a shocking amount of violence (the funny kind!), and Steve Blum absolutely nailing it, as usual. We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, Episode 10: “Freaky”. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook Email: wallopingwebsnap...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Thor is a frog now! Spidey and his team fight Loki and Frost Giants in Asgard with magical weapons based on their character traits! You’d think that would lead to a pretty wild episode, but somehow this less-exciting rehash of the first Thor movie is bizarrely forgettable. Frog Thor is cute, though! We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, Episode 9: “Field Trip”. Website | Patreon | Discord Contact us: @WallopingWebPod on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebo...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Peter Parker should really take a sick day instead of fighting Venom, but here we are. This episode features a fascinating twist on the Venom formula with Harry Osborn trying to master the symbiote to impress his dad… but unfortunately, it has to devote a lot of time to snot jokes from Peter’s flu, prompting a continued conversation about the push-pull of what Marvel executives want this show to be versus what the creators seem to be trying to do. We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, E...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Ultimate Spider-Man does a found footage episode! As Mary Jane tries to get a big scoop on a Hulk attack, almost the entire story is told from the lens of her camera, leading to ambitious animation and incredibly creative storytelling choices. We discuss the challenges of animating in found footage style, the lack of cutaways, S.H.I.E.L.D. and cops as antagonists, and more! We’re watching Ultimate Spider-Man : Season 1, Episode 7: “Exclusive”. Website | Patreon | Discord Co...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 18 min
