Of
Course We Have A Spider-Man Pic!
Silly us. Last weekend at Wonder-Con we sat down with a
plethora of talent involved with Spectacular Spider-Man,
and I can say that finally, I have an animated series for
Spidey I can get excited about. This feels like a radical
yet honorable rethink in the way Bruce Timm and Paul Dini
first rethought Batman.
Here's
the first pic -- but many more will be on their way this
week...
From
KidsWB!:
An all-new
animated television series, The Spectacular Spider-Man premieres
Saturday, March 8 with back-to-back episodes airing at 10:00
a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (ET/PT) on Kids' WB! on The CW.
The
series picks up the original web-slinger's mythology at
the beginning of his hero's journey as a not-so-typical
16-year-old. Peter Parker must conceal his secret identity
and confront the
multi-leveled pressures of teenage life at home and school,
while combating more menacing super villains than ever before.
The
Spectacular Spider-Man is produced by Culver Entertainment,
a Sony Pictures Television Company.
The
first season of The Spectacular Spider-Man will air for
12 consecutive weeks on Kids' WB! on The CW. A second season
is now in production.
The episode synopses for Saturday, March
8:
In "Survival
of the Fittest" (10:00 a.m. ET/PT), summer is over
for Peter Parker and school's ready to start -- both literally
(it's his junior year of high school), and in the real world
of crime-fighting -- as Spider-Man faces his first real
challenge (The Enforcers) and his first real super-villain
(Vulture). Victor Cook directed the script, which was written
by Greg Weisman. Robert Englund ("A Nightmare on Elm
Street") provides the voice of Vulture.
In "Interactions"
(10:30 a.m. ET/PT), Peter Parker and Spider-Man both try
to make connections. Nerdy Pete attempts to tutor the popular
Liz Allan, while Spidey reaches out to stop a new menace:
Electro. Alanna Ubach ("Legally Blonde," "Waiting")
and popular video game and voiceover specialist Crispin
Freeman provide the voices of Liz Allan and Electro, respectively.
Troy Adomitis directed the script by Kevin Hopps.
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