Before I get into them, I will discuss Fox Kids, something I have not really done here on this channel. We as my family only got Fox in 1995. It was a New York affiliate finally hitting our province, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was out of Rochester. I still kinda want to visit Rochester because of that. I would watch Sailor Moon, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Brady Bunch, Mega Man, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Futurama, and Family Guy. I for whatever reason never watched Fox Kids. I would watch Batman, X-Men. Spider-Man (1994), Eek the Cat, Bobby's World, Animaniacs and it's spinoff Pinky and the Brain all on YTV. I really should dig into Fox Kids more because I never watched them, but honestly the only cartoon that really interests me is Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates. No I don't care about Digimon. I know Portnoyd probably already knows that but I'm saying that for any person who watched Fox Kids and somehow finds this on page 32 of Google. I'm glad you were so serious into Spider-Man Unlimited that you went up to page 32 and even looked this blog. Digimon was something I turned on for like 10 minutes before my mom called my sister adn I for our weekly mall visit. I have no real opinion on Digimon.
Honestly, I think I'm gonna try something different for this SPider-Man cartoon, since It's literally only twelve episodes I'm going to spend a paragraph each talking about them. Each episode.So this post will come out in two months time (currently writing this on March 1st, 2026, so we will probably see it in May 1st, 2026) . Anyway a few things to mention before I get into this stuff. This was near the end of Fox Kids and pretty much every show they had was from Japan at this point. If it was close to Pokemon they picked it up. I kinda want to talk about Monster Rancher because I talked about Digimon and Pokemon and I actually liked that one. Fox Kids started in 1990 and ended in 2002 I believe. I just watched most of this stuff somewhere else. I'm sorry.
The second thing is that this cartoon only came out one year after the last Spider-Man cartoon, which might be my favorite. I really should re-watch every episode of every Spider-Man cartoon made between 1967-2000. I say things like this and then I get too depressed to even blink. That cartoon ended on a cliffhanger. No this cartoon does not cover that cliffhanger (it also apparently ends on a cliffhanger too). It's literally a new Spider-Man show. The artstyle is new. Everything is new. I wonder if fans of the earlier show literally refused to watch this one and the rest of everyone was literally watching Japanese characters catch monsters or do something with monsters. It was a wild time. Me, I did like Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z at this moment but my big thing was as I said before was watching like every movie I could from the 1980s. No matter how popular. This was more or less when I stopped watching most cartoons honestly.
I have to bring up a pretty obscure concept from Marvel Comics called COUNTER-EARTH. It was created by The High Evolutionary so he could do WEIRD THINGS TO EVOLVE things. But EVILILY somehow. He brought his Ani-Men (which are just Animal Men like you know The Thundercats. I love them) Yes. The High Evolutionary is just COMIC BOOK DR. MOREAU. Anyway early ADAM WARLOCK stories happened here. I have only read one where THE HULK shows up. It was enjoyable because I'm very easy to please. This pretty SCI FI STORY is where this Spider-Man story is. I mentioned before that MYSTICAL STORIES involving Spider-Man where Dr. Strange doesn't show up kinda end up making my butthole clench. Well the same is for very SCI FI STORIES where Spider-Man shows up but the FANTASTIC FOUR is not there. It just doesn't work most of the times. This show already has to run up two hills. I'm pretty sure I would have been angry as fucking shit if I saw this show at like 14. It didn't finish off the cliffhanger and it's doing WEIRD SHIT. I've grown to enjoy WEIRD SHIT but I still doubt I'll really care about this cartoon, who knows though.
Two more things I have to mention before I go onto to talk about at LEAST a few episodes. I dunno If I want to watch twelve of these things. (Currently watching episode one lol). First off this was animated and voiced acted by Canadians. Most of them are people I have never heard of. That's not a good sign. It also seems that a lot of the people I have heard of were for some other people. Secondly it seemed they wanted to do a more straight forward Spider-Man show but were told no as they were working on the movie and DIDN'T WANT TO CONFUSE PEOPLE with TWO ADAPTATIONS. I do not get that weird rule but what do I know. Anyway Scott McNeil, Richard Newman, Garry Chalk and Jennifer Hale got jobs for this video. They seemed to be forced into the COUNTER EARTH thing to do stuff. So yeah the first two episodes are getting Spider Man to COUNTER EARTH.
The first two episodes have JOHN JAMESON go into SPACE because he's an astronaut. Venom and Carnage get on the space ship without being seen because they are changed up enough to be considered DIFFERENT and WON'T CONFUSE OUR SMALL BRAINS BECAUSE OF TWO ADAPTATIONS. I don't think they are much different really but what do I know. Anyway J JONAH JAMESON is willing to give 10 MILLION to the person who finds out Spider-Mans identity. His suit gets destroyed so he gets a new one from the FANTASTIC FOUR which he uh, steals NANOTECHNOLOGY from. You don't even see the Fantastic Four. They just get mentioned. I guess you'd have to hire voice actors for them and you can't have that. Who knew? Anyway I don't like this one fucking bit because the Fantastic Four would trust fucking Spider-Man after the 8253028942094 fucking adventures they have had. They would help him with the fucking nanotechnology and he wouldn't have to STEAL IT. Yes, I am a 40 year old man and this actually annoyed me. Piss off.
So he got a job with the SECOND space shuttle stuff. Lol Nick Fury just randomly shows up. Okay yeah, Nick Fury is not a guy who trusts people easily AND he'd probably want to overlook a space shuttle launch. However uh, he just randomly pops up. I was kinda exicted when I saw the name MICHAEL REAVES who worked on many better pieces of animation than this like Gargoyles or Batman: The Animated Series or Dungeons and Dragons. Of course when your first idea gets shot down and your second idea of having Counter Earth's Peter Parker become Venom because Uncle Ben didn't die there was also shot down you probably stopped giving a shit. I know I sure would. Nick Fury then just gives up after Spider-Man gives him his gun back. Lol wow. I'm amazed that someone with actual talent wrote this shit.
Lol to cover his ass Spider Man goes to his Peter Parker voice and has him say IM A NEWSPAPER MAN SO IM GOING INTO SPACE TOO WOOO... something less sarcastic than that but around the same thing. Yeah, I'm not watching twelve episodes of this. He goes through the TIME WARP THING that just SHOWS UP OUT OF NOWEHRE and a GREEN LAZER from COUNTER EARTH hits him and is bringing him down. Some people in SUITS come by to save him. AND BY SAVE HIM i mean capture him for the High Evolutionary and LORD TYGER. You know it's spelled that way. Anyway he calls him self a Spider-Man so the BESTIALS (the new supposedly COOLER name for the Ani-Men but it comes off as goofy to me.) He ends up meeting some new people and you know what I'm doing the same thing as I did with Fries With That and not even watching part two of this. (Also Fries With That showed more enthusiasm for the material. At least the actors did.)
This feels so "I don't care" the enthusiasm levels are so fucking low that you can feel it. Which causes you not to watch this. I don't blame anyone working on this because when they cut down the first two ideas you just throw up your hands in frustration and churn out some shit. I do know that if Marvel Comics wer like THIS BLOG MAN NEEDS TO MAKE A SPIDER-MAN SHOW FOR US, it would be terrible and insane and ridiculous but you'd feel some fucking enthusiasm. There's a reason this lasted one season and it's because it was crap. Had I watched any of this at 14 I would have been livid. At 40 years old all I did was give it some eye rolls. Sorry but I just don't even care enough to see what happens.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Looking at a episode guide it shows him fighting Venom and Carnage and all that. Oh and a COUNTER EARTH VULTURE and KRAVEN that i'm sure are just barely different than the original versions. You know what I'd do. You know how I said Counter Earth was originally made for Adam Warlock to fight people in. Well Adam Warlock is powerful as fucking hell. So make this Spider-Man villains powerful enough to fight Adam Warlock. It would cause Spider-Man to actually work with the RANDOM TEAM of MAN WOLF and GOOD GREEN GOBLIN (like from the comic series from the mid 1990s. I had the first COLLECTORS issue). I have no idea if they do make them more powerful but the thing is I don't even care enough to finish this two parter. I just don't care and this is the best you are getting. Maybe one day I'll actually sit down and watch every episode of some TV shows but this won't be one of them. That's for goddamn sure.
The Spiderman as an influencer thing is fucking terrible. To be honest, most of the Marvel TV shows have been awful. My wife and I tapped out on them with Secret Invasion, which was unwatchable slop. There are far too many INTERNET ARGUMENTS out there on this topic so I will keep it brief. Spidefluencer shows how badly Marvel Studios has floundered since Avengers Endgame. It's why they have all their eggs and then some into Avengers Doomsday. The "brand" is on life support because it's failing to capture normies. Doctor Doom is their last hope. He is the best villain they've got left (and this is discounting any X-Men villain because it seems like they are hell bent on keeping the Fox Marvel casting alive as long as Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan alive). Casting Downey Jr again is probably a cheap tactic so old characters think he's Iron Man and I think it will ultimately drag the whole thing down.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I have Spiderfluencer on my media server and have yet to touch it. I will watch the Superman Adult Swim show before I ever do that, but that's just because it is part of my watch all of Adult Swim plan.
I may have watched some Fox Kids branded stuff, I can't remember. Checking Wikipedia, I did because it covered Tiny Toons which I was and am all in on. If I ever finish Adult Swim, I am watching all of those episodes again. The shows I liked from Fox was all over the place but it was primarily the early stuff. The last shows that I watched watched/knew of were The Tick (which I have never watched, all 3 versions of it too, at this point) and Animaniacs.
I know this will be heresy by some on Internet, perhaps to Claw as well, I never really liked Animaniacs. I appreciated the concept and the characters but it just didn't hit with me. The Animaniacs themselves were ok I guess, Pinky & the Brain were not my cup of tea (however Maurice Lamarche is god tier) and anything else I can't even remember.
I passed Digimon by well before it took root. I have never too much into Pokemon (to this day, only placed through Pokemon Blue out of the whole regular series) and Digimon was even less appealling. Being as Digimon games hit PS1 first, that tracks.
Tbh this is the first I am hearing of Counter-Earth, but my Marvel comic reading kept a wide circle around the corners High Evolutionary hid and I don't think they did a big crossover concerning him or Counter Eath either. I'll take your word on it.
Didn't Spiderman try and steal something from the FF in one of the first Spiderman issues or something? Maybe that's what they're riffing on?
Why does this sound like they are going way off the rails intentionally on episode 1? This sounds UNLIMITED WACKINESS. I am also curious to see what happens in the two parter (if it goes back to regular COUNTER EARTH) but you know what? Like you, I don't care,
This show being called UNLIMITED is riding the UNLIMITED wave from the comics. I remember I think after X-Men Unlimited did well (anything X-Men did well in the mid 90s), every decent book got an UNLIMITED branch. Which was just a thicker comic with one or two self contained stories.
oddly enough when it comes to the Animaniacs I am somewhere in the middle. I thought the Warner Siblings were pretty good and I loved Pinky and the Brain. I also thought Slappy Squirrel was pretty good becuase who doesn't love grouchy ass old ladies. The rest of it was kinda shit. Like should have only made two characters with said charactesr shitty. Like those GANGSTER PIGEONS. It had moments but Tiny Toon Adventures and Freakazoid were so much more fun to watch.
DeleteI'm going to look for the few NEWFOUNDLAND HERALDS i have that were around the late 1990s. I want to see if the fact we always went to the mall is why I barely remember Digimon. I was BIG on Pokemon at that time. I want concrete information because that HAS to be the reason.
It's weird because the only Phase 4/5 Marvel Movie I'd ever refuse to actually sit down and watch again is The Eternals. Holy hot hell that was a piece of shit. The movies are entertaining enough but what really did it for DA NORMIES was that it was an overarching plot. Everyone wanted to see them all team up and punch Thanos in the face.
They really could have done something with Kang or the Multiverse. I seriously believe they dropped the ball by choosing BOTH. It didn't help that they seemed to bring in KANG at random and tons of stuff barely even mentioned him. It also didnt help things that he apparently likes punching women a lot. Also he is working with THE DAILY WIRE aka BEN SHARPIE.
That's seriously what killed the entire golden goose really. The fact that Disney was like OH SHIT WE NEED 4030 MARVEL TV SHOWS. That kevin feige bastard is only one man. He cannot oversee that many shows. Say what you want about DC comics CINEMATIC UNIVERSE but the idea of say doing one or two moveis a year and one tv show season is a good idea.
I actually 100% agree with you on Doctor Doom. You need you know fucking build up for Doctor Doom. You don't jam him in at the last fucking second. Honestly I think they should just let all superhero movies rest for like 15 years. Do new stuff again then. They kinda just exhaust me right now.
Counter Earth was just a big HEY LET'S THROW EVERY IDEA WE CAN INTO A COMIC BOOK which was a big thing for Marvel Comics in like the first decade of them doing comics as well Marvel. They showed up in the 1970s until a story involving The Fantastic Four fighting on Counter Earth in like 1976. If you told me that was the last time it actually appeared in the comic books I really would not be surprised in the least.
I do think that happened in THE VERY FIRST ISSUE OF AMAZING SPIDER MAN IN 1963, but it feels "I don't care about this shit anymore and I have to have it in by Friday so he just steals it from them. Fine whatever"
The whole series stays on Counter Earth and even ends on a cliffhanger but I have never cared less about a thing related to Spider-Man than I care about this. At least the INFLUENCER-MAN got me angry as Infleuencers may just end society. Okay a little hyperbole but fuck are they AWFUL.
This was like New Adventures of He-Man and Transformers Beast Machines, a brazen enthusiasm-less attempt to squeeze more money out of these shows when they just were not working anymore. Strange how Michael Reaves worked on them all. It goes to show that even people who know what they are doing sometimes fuck up.
Yeah Spider-Man Unlimited existed. The first two parts of MAXIMUM CARNAGE the most OVERRATED AND SHITTY SPIDER MAN STORY EVER (or at least in the top 5) were the first two issues and it lasted until I believe 2001. I don't care enough to look that shit up.
Omfg The gangster pigeons. Yes they were horrible, I blocked them from memory. So stereotypical and lazy.
ReplyDeleteOh man, I'm glad you hate the eternals as much as I do. The problem is, well, one of many problems with that movie is they hired a director who had just won an Oscar for best picture here in the United States for some drama, and they throw her into a comic book action movie? That was never going to work and it didn't.
I'm sorry but Kang sucks. The actor fucking up and changing things is honestly for the best.
They really kind of screwed themselves by using the multiverse as the solution for endgame. What it unfortunately is there is always now a solution for any problem the movies come up with. Kill someone, grab their multiverse version. Kill off the famous actor leading your series of movies? Good news, the bad guy you want to use is now played by that actor because multiverse. They really cashed in on the ending of infinity war which was genuinely awesome, especially seeing it in theaters and watching all the normies be like wait what, not a happy ending? But I think they could have tried a little harder to have a solution out. Adding Captain marvel to the mix was part of the the solution but they barely used her in endgame
I agree as well, they need to take a break and make something else. The burnout is real and has been burnt out for 5 years now. If Spider-Man isn't a humongous success later this year, they are in deep shit.
Apologies, you obviously live through the unlimited era too and yes I bought all of maximum Carnage myself. Should have been amazing, just kind of ate itself after the 4th or 5th issue in the series.
I am voice dictating this as I walk, any and all typos and stupid wording is Google's fault but I wanted to throw you a reply to the reply
lol i am imagining you walking in a forest and people are wondering why the fuck yo uare talking about carnage and gangster pigeons to no one.
ReplyDeleteregardless how you feel about kang just jamming Doctor Doom in as a BANDAGE at the last second is a bad movie.
Even if I liked stuff after Endgame it probably was the best ending point.
I kinda hope Spider-Man goes down in flames because I kinda want this ride to end and I also do not like this version of spider-man.
the multiverse works in comic books because they are willing to use it to do crazy shit like have batman fight dracula or evovle everyone in Marvel Comics so much that the entire universe becomes one in a lunatic story. They aren't going to go to crazy town or even really simple creativity (DC Comics would have two Earths that were like forty years difference so while Batman was fighting JERKS IN 1979 they were fighting NO GOOD NAZI BUMS. I dunno. I thought it was fun)
You totally know if they were able to get one or two LIVE ACTION ANI-MAYS movies off the ground that would become the next trend.