New Spider-Man animated series coming!

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=ecf427ae-2c3c-46a3-80a5-56d912b41681

Everyone's favorite wall-crawler is getting animated again.

With the hugely anticipated release of Spider-Man 3 only two months away, the CW announced Thursday that Marvel's arachnid-friendly superhero is swinging back to the small screen via a new cartoon series that will premiere in early 2008.

Tentatively titled The Amazing Spider-Man, the animated show will air as part of the network's top-rated Saturday morning Kids' WB! programming block.

"The addition of Spider-Man bolsters a lineup that has proved to be the Saturday morning destination for kids seeking action and adventure in the most amped-up ways," trumpets Betsy McGowen, senior vice president and general manager of the Kids WB!

The Amazing Spider-Man will be set at the start of the web-slinger's crime-fighting career, focusing on a teenage Peter Parker trying to adjust to his newfound super powers—and junior year of high school—while trading blows and barbs with the likes of the Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Sandman, Venom, Tarantula, Mysterio, Lizard and Kingpin.

"Our goal is to reinterpret these great characters and concepts for our millennium," says supervising producer Greg Weisman. "We'll have plenty of resonant material for the Spider-Man fan, while engaging the Spider-Man novice with the same thrills we experienced when we were first exposed to the character."


Raph's Girl note: Greg Weisman!!! FTW!!!

[bmxbandit]

awesome! hopefully it will be as good as the old animated series. ...now only if they'd release the older Spiderman TAS on dvd series sets!

[LogicDonny]

the 90s spiderman as well as the CGI 2003 one were both excellent. I sure can't wait to see this one.. It sucks that the 2003 didn't last long. It had a good run for a bunch of episodes. and it was made by mainframe! :)

[ZariusTwo]

Oh...you mean the Mainframe that sucked effortlessy after all of Reboot's writers (and the animators for both that, Beast Wars, and War Planets) were either fired or left?:roll:

The MTV Spider-Man was garbage. Crappy voice-acting, the usual Bendis tosh, Electro looking more like The Spot, and a raging emo at that, bad "fan wank", and above all else, CRAP ANIMATION.

[Kendamu]

MTV Spider-Man felt casual for me as I hadn't a lot of knowledge about Spidey back when I was watching it on TV. I could just slip right into it and have a bit of fun. That, and it's cheap to own the whole series on DVD and the opening theme is cool.

Definately not a turn on for the hardcore Spidey-Nerd that can easily make sense of the Clone Saga that lasted for decades well enough to critique every last little sketch line into oblivion while simultaneoulsly complaining about organic web-shooters and still have time to drool over the gimmicky-but-cool "back in black" recent costume change for Spidey but it's good enough for a guy like me who tends to care more about Spider-Man 2 on the PS2 than why Eddie Brock in Spidey 3 isn't big and bulky.

By the way, if Spider-Man can do whatever a spider can does that mean he has trouble getting out of the tub?

[ZariusTwo]

Definately not a turn on for the hardcore Spidey-Nerd that can easily make sense of the Clone Saga that lasted for decades well enough to critique every last little sketch line into oblivion while simultaneoulsly complaining about organic web-shooters and still have time to drool over the gimmicky-but-cool "back in black" recent costume change for Spidey

Actually, I really don't like his black and white costume at all. Kind of betrays the very reasons he stopped wearing it in the first place (It triggers a pathological phobia from MJ, of course only Todd Mcfarlane actually remembers that), I love the organic web-shooters, and the Clone Saga can't be labelled anything less than a convulted mess that lasted much too long.

And I hate the MTV series

Your blatant attempt at unsuccesful flame-bait is welcome though