Walloping Websnappers! A Spider-Man Podcast

Peter Parker has a crush on a new gal…with spider powers?! Author Shawn Pryor returns for an episode of 60s Spidey that almost seems like an intriguing, emotional story for our hero…until the basketball-shaped UFO, monsters, and aliens show up! We get into the spider-aliens’ inconsistent rules, coffee shop rock shows, and Spider-Man swinging across the entire United States.

We’re watching Spider-Man (1967):...

The strange relationship of Peter Parker and Otto Octavius continues when they team up to fight a deep-cut comic book villain (the Teflon man, Slyde!) while dealing with their own respective existential crises. Oh, and there’s some kind of creepy Goblin Nation brewing, too! We try to retroactively spot Goblin graffiti and get into this show’s penchant for telling instead of showing.

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Spidey has to save supervillains from an evil prison warden! Thankfully, Otto Octavius is well-rested from his coma and ready to help. We talk about Otto’s immediate return and his adorable romance with Anna Maria, Regent’s backstory and some unfortunate implications, Cloak and Dagger’s successful multi-episode arc, and the most obvious bad guy reveal of all time.

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No, not the movie, and no, not the comic either! It’s actually an introspective follow-up to the Superior Spider-Man arc, with Peter Parker back in his own body but finding his life in shambles. Oh, and he investigates a mystery of missing Avengers and makes a horribly ugly new suit. We talk about the legacy of “Brand New Day” as a title, a cute version of Molten Man, and yet another rant about the show’s us...

Peter Parker flies to the Antarctic to find a downed satellite…so of course he ends up in a jungle with a volcano! Chris from Play Comicsjoins us for a “greatest hits” of ‘67 Spidey tropes, including freaky monsters and flying serpents, green-skinned natives that might be racially insensitive, and another girl of the week (though she flies a plane this time!) We discuss the return of J. Jonah Jameson, exact...

The Superior Spider-Man arc comes to an end with a surprisingly intimate tearjerker, as Otto learns tough lessons about relationships, selflessness, and heroism…all thanks to a gloopy hostless Venom symbiote who loves to lick! We talk about the use of Flash Thompson and Anna Maria Marconi, how this arc weaved so many unexpected threads together, and the continued weird lack of Gwen and Anya.

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Like the title suggests, this one introduces Marvel characters Cloak & Dagger (voiced by their concurrent live action actors!) But the big surprise? The introduction of Anna Maria Marconi, who shakes up the Superior Spider-Man story and even brings early conversations about super genius schools vs. underfunded public schools back into the fray. We get into Peter in a robot body, the startling lack of the Spider-Women, Miles fin...

Sure, a few Avengers are suspicious of Superior Spider-Man and get roped into an action-packed plan to stop M.O.D.O.K. But the real meat here is cyber Peter Parker venturing through Otto Octavius’s memories of childhood abuse. It’s very upsetting! We talk about how this show handles darker and realistic subject matter, why these Avengers land with a thud, and… why aren’t Miles and Kamala hanging out?! 

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Spider-Man fights…a colonizer?! Tyler from ⁠Fear Coded⁠ joins us for this international adventure where Peter Parker gets stranded in a secret city of gold warbirds, active volcanoes, and giant bugs. While it doesn’t get everything right (the Aztec empire was nowhere near the Andes and you can’t go UP whirlpools) it does correctly make a conquistador the unambiguous bad guy! 

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The Superior Spider-Man arc continues as Otto does a terrible job imitating Peter Parker, a violent job of handling villains like Sandgirl, but a great job at making Miles suspicious and quitting Horizon. Meanwhile, the real Peter’s digital consciousness tries to save himself from deletion, and we talk about the many missed opportunities of this virtual world. Also… Big Wheel mentioned?!

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Peter Parker is back! Or, well… his body is, at least. We’re finally digging into 2017’s adaptation of The Superior Spider-Man as Otto Octavius gets used to his new superpowered body, unmasks himself to learn the identity of his nemesis Spider-Man, and reckons with the reality that Peter Parker’s memories, experiences, and emotions are now his as well. Also, prepare for a hefty tangent discussing how variou...

The title isn’t lying – Peter Parker/Spider-Man does not appear in this episode for even a second, and our other Spider-Folks finally take center stage! We return to the 2017 cartoon after way too long as Gwen Stacy seeks to regain her powers and become Ghost-Spider proper, while Miles Morales tries to mentor Anya Corazón on friendly neighborhood spidering. All that, plus a silly lil Tinkerer and a big kaiju Scorpion!

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A kaiju cat with paralyzing eyes? A wizard with magical energy powers? An electronic werewolf? …Or were-cat?! Raymond Strife from TheAging Punksjoins us for the most incoherent episode of the 60s Spider-Man show, where a green-skinned Burl Ives-inspired magician named Pardo sends out his eye-beam-shooting giant black cat that…might be a robot? Or an energy being? Or Pardo himself? We talk about the hilariously egregio...

We say farewell to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends… and hello to Iceman’s sister, Lightwave! In the final episode, the Spider-Friends get swept up in a S.H.I.E.L.D. plot with aggressive brainwashing, a defense satellite, and a very serious Bobby Drake. As their adventure ends, we talk about how we fell in love with this show and what could’ve been had it continued.

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Firestar’s ex exacts revenge on the ex-X-Man and the X-Men! X-fan Manicorn uses his mutant powers to guide us through this backdoor pilot for an X-Men cartoon that never was, featuring a cyborg villain who turns the X-Mansion into a deathtrap. We get into the team’s roster and how this episode responded to the concurrent comics, Xavier the huge dick, beautiful manly Colossus and mankini-clad Nightcrawler, Firesta...

Last year Derek literally fled the country to get away from the Kraven the Hunter movie, but Doug persisted and convinced Glitterjaw’s own Gavin & Tyler to see it! In this re-released Patreon episode, we talk all about whether Aaron Taylor-Johnson makes a good Kraven, why Ariana DeBose needs to fire her agent, who exactly the Foreigner is, how literally anyone’s superpowers are supposed to work, and o...

Ever explore the attic of an abandoned house and discover a flower kaiju and a time machine? Chris from Every Spider-Man Everjoins us for the 60s cartoon’s prehistoric adventure, where Spidey goes to 3 million B.C. to get radium gems and then decimates an entire species of sentient plant people. We talk about all the weird little freaks and their cool designs, and question who’s the bigger villain: Master Vine or Peter&...

We all know Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy, but remember the other love of Peter Parker’s life… Ariel from outer space? It’s love at first sight between Peter Parker and an alien from the far future in this this silly but sincere tragic love story, which includes an astrology party populated by furries, Doc Ock’s severed tentacle, lots of passionate deep kisses, and of course, our new best friend the Nebu-crab.

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YOU DEMANDED IT! The Amazing Friends crew and Stan Lee answer fan mail and explain the big questions we all had about the Spider-Friends in this flashback episode, including: How did the Spider-Friends meet? Why do they all live with Aunt May? Where did they get that high-tech crime computer system they rarely use? The question it DOESN’T answer: Why do The Beetle and Tony Stark sound like that? 

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