Summer Comics Recap 2025ish

This is the tandem episode to the summer anime recap episode. There wasn't as much going on in that World (lol). We talked about it all> Superman, Peacemaker, and the multiple Marvel animated shows. I hope you all enjoy the episode.

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What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Nerd Vibes. Today, we are going to be talking about the comic book stuff that I watched over the summer since the last podcast, basically. The last episode, we did everything that I've been watching on the anime side. Well, there was a lot more selection in the anime side than there was in the superhero side, comic book side. But we do have a lot of good entries, some bad and some middle tier. So we got everything crossing the spectrum, Marvel DC, everything that we watched over the summer and since the last podcast. I didn't put a podcast out last week because I wanted the two podcasts that I did before to breathe a little bit before I did this one. So we're going to put this episode and then hopefully we're going to go weekly after this. In short, we're going to talk about six different properties within Marvel in DC that I watched over the summer or the time since I started podcasting again with to varying degrees of enjoyment. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Also, want to take this time to remind everybody to follow Armdark Mamba on all socials: Instagram, Twitter, or X, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, any of those where you can find me and directly interact with me, ask me questions that may be answered on the podcast here in later episodes. So again, follow Arm Dark Mamba on all platforms. Let's get to the show. Since I was consistently recording, and those two properties are going to be the Superman feature film and Peacemaker season one and season two. Although season one premiered, I want to say 2023, maybe 2022, something like that. I never got into it. But season two looked like it was going to be really good. So I blitzed through season one and uh caught up in time to watch season two on the weekly basis. But first, I want to talk about Superman. First, I want to talk about the feelings I have about Superman as a character. I think he's boring. I think he's very cookie-cutter. And I think that his character was when it was originally done, was a proper response to the time in history when he was created, which was right around World War II, you know, history of fighting uh Nazis and against oppression and all those things like that. But I just thought he was a boring character. I don't like his powers. I don't like the Boy Scout personality that he has. I much more preferred the grittier superheroes, um, superheroes that have way more complicated backstories or complicated powers or things that have to do with their emotions, uh, things of that nature. So I was going into the super Superman movie being a Superman hater, and I came out of this movie loving it, loving this version of the character. Because A, it was the perfect tone for Superman for this time in history that we are right now, and B, all the side characters got time to shine. And that is something that I really look out for when I'm watching a movie, especially a comic book movie. Are your side characters fleshed out? And we had the Jimmy character, who is Superman's best friend, also works at the Daily Bugle with him, and is also like a reporter, but like more of more so of a junior reporter. You have Lois Lane, who works at the Daily Bugle, who is an amazing reporter, who is Superman's love interest in this movie, but the way that she is portrayed is top-tier, in my opinion. I think that Lois in the past has been portrayed as that damsel in distress that Superman constantly has to save, or she's been portrayed as a woman who is in awe of Superman in terms of his powers, his looks, his status. Uh, and that wasn't the case for this iteration of Lois Lane, and I love that. Uh, this Lex Luthor was a good Lex Luthor. Um, I thought that his plot lines and his motivations and stuff were a little bit convoluted at times. Um, mostly because he just kind of had a problem that Superman was more popular than him, is kind of what it boiled down to, in my opinion. But I do like how Lex was deployed in this movie. He did a great job at being that villain um and showing that how his intellect is his superpower versus Superman in in terms of to Superman's strength and speed and all those kinds of things. So I thought it was a good movie in terms of all of those portions. Now, when we talk about the main character of Superman, you also have to talk about his ultra ego, Clark Kent. And in this movie, Clark Kent was deployed beautifully, he was used to further the plot of Superman while not detracting from Superman, and it did feel like Clark Kent in the beginning parts of the movie was a separate character from Superman, which is how it's supposed to be. Because Clark Kent is his secret identity, and it wouldn't make any sense if he was just acting like Superman all the time. So I thought that was really good. The there's a part in the movie where Lois and Clark are having a conversation where Lois is interviewing Superman. So he's got his Superman persona going right now, and it becomes a tension point in the movie because Superman stopped a war on a foreign in a foreign country, and it's now coming back onto him as consequences for his actions because the world views him as a kind of ambassador slash emissary slash figure of the US government in this movie, and he is trying to make it very clear I am not affiliated with any governments. I'm Superman, people need help, I save the people. Part of the controversy for this movie was the foreign conflict that he stopped was very similar to the Israeli-Palestine situation that's going on in the real world. So people saw that, and it was pretty obvious that that's the commentary that James Gunn wanted to insert into the movie. Um, it's very heavily, heavily taught told to you that Superman is an immigrant because he's an alien from another planet, obviously, so he's obviously an immigrant, and he is there for all people, not just the United States. Even though he resides in the United States, he's a hero for the world. So that was a point of conflict in the movie. You also had the Justice Gang, which I didn't really touch on. You had Hot Girl, Guy Gardner, Green Lantern, which I was very happy about, and then the character that stole the movie, in my opinion, Mr. Terrific. Those characters were really, really good. I feel like Green Lantern and Hot Girl got just enough screen time to make them relevant to the movie, but not enough for them to take it over. Whereas Mr. Terrific had more screen time than both of them. And his performance was elite, elite, elite performance. He uses he was able to use his intellect to help save Superman, whereas the other two members of the Justice gang were kind of just, for lack of a better term, dicking around. You know, they're a paid corporate entity that saves people based on where their controlling interest tells them to go. So they weren't participating in foreign wars, they weren't doing any anything of that nature until towards the end of the movie when Superman kind of got through to them with his morals and things of that nature. But this movie was really good. It had a lot of on-point themes, especially for the time that we're living in right now. You know, like I said, Superman being an immigrant was was very was a very big theme of the movie. Uh, Superman being a hero for everyone, as opposed to just for the United States, was a huge part of the movie. And also Superman having to find himself in terms of what he actually means as a hero and what his actions actually mean in terms of geopolitical politics. So it wasn't super heavy in terms of the complex complexity of the themes, it was more straightforward, um, which I wish it would have been a little bit more complex in terms of the themes, and it would have wouldn't have been spoon-fed as much as it was. But that is what it is with James Gunn. He he tends to do more simple themes, a lot of jokes, uh, a lot of big action set pieces, a lot of colors, which all of that was in this movie. Uh, I just wished it was a little bit more complex, and that's just based on my feelings towards Superman in general. But overall, it was a good movie-going experience. I saw it in the theater. Uh, it was it was great on the big screen. All the emotional beats hit when they were supposed to hit uh the fight, the fights that Superman was involved in were believable for a Superman movie because it is hard to kind of show his different powers and the scale of how strong he is. But I thought in this movie they did a good job of showing his vulnerability, which you don't see a lot of vulnerability from Superman a lot, but he was bleeding. Um, he ends up fighting a cloned version of himself later on, which is why he is having a struggle towards the end with that fight. Uh, and then the events of this movie lead into Peacemaker season two. So it's all starting to get connected. James Gunn being at the head, knowing that, you know, he's the one planning it, similar to a Kevin Feige for the MCU. It just bodes well for the DCU going forward. Uh, Peacemaker did make an appearance in this movie, which in the theater got a lot of cheers. Uh, people were very happy to see John Cena and him appear in the movie was kind of a surprise. So that was really fun. Um, some some nits to pick about this movie. There's some scientific stuff that seemed a little out there, maybe, but you know, it is a comic book movie, so you kind of gotta let it slide a little when it comes to the practicality of the science in those types of movies. Uh, and then I thought the character of Jimmy being this like uber attractive guy was very, very funny. Uh it and they built it into a plot point in the movie where the girl that he is dealing with is currently dating Lex Luthor, and through her interactions with Jimmy, because she has a really big crush on Jimmy, Jimmy's able to get a lot of the a lot of information that turns the tides of the battle into Superman's favorite. So I thought that was a really funny plot point. It's not really a uh nitpick, but it's more so an observation that I that I found really, really good. Especially since Jimmy in the comics is not portrayed in that way. He's more so portrayed as a kind of a sidekick to Clark Kent as opposed to a sidekick to Superman. So him being deployed as his own character outside of the Clark Kent Superman entity was really, really masterful uh deployment of a character. And then, like I said, the deployment of Lois in this movie was fantastic. She challenged Clark slash Superman on his actions and what they actually mean to on a geopolitical scale. She challenged him on why he thinks he was he's the moral authority in the world, like why he thinks that his decision making is better or more important than anyone else's. Uh she also was part of the group that kind of led to Superman getting the information that he needed to stop Lex Luthor towards the end. So I just thought overall it was a great, great movie. And coming from someone who's not a Superman fan, I very, very much enjoyed myself. Uh, I'm pretty sure my wife enjoyed herself because she watches the movies with me. And it was it was really good. I walked out of the movie uh refreshed, um, excited for what's going forward in the DCU, which is what you know, literally watching that movie is why I decided to watch Peacemaker, because he showed up in the movie, and you know, it they said at the end of the movie this this movie directly ties into uh season two of Peacemaker. So if I wanted to be on board with the DCU, I had to watch season two of Peacemaker, but since I wanted to watch season two, I had to watch season one, and so that brings me to Peacemaker season one and two. So when we're talking about Peacemaker season one, you gotta understand most of the stuff in season one is irrelevant to season two because season one happened before James Young took over the DCU, and therefore everything that kind of happened in season one was irrelevant in terms of certain characters and things like that. Some storylines did remain, but it was neatly packaged in season two to go toward the new timeline that the DCU has right now. So season one, we're mostly focusing on character development, and then we're gonna talk more in depth about season two. So, season one, we get our main character, Peacemaker, aka John Cena, is dealing with the fallout of him killing Rick Flagg Jr. at the end of the Suicide Squad movie because Rick Flag was trying to go against the orders of Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad, and Peacemaker thought he was doing the right thing by completing the mission. So he ended up killing him, and season one is basically him trying to deal with that. There's also the part where he has a father who is a homicidal white supremacist, who he basically also spends the whole season trying to undo the things that his father taught him, which is being hyper militaristic, being very black and white. Uh, again, his father in the show is a proud white supremacist. So he's dealing with not only external factors in season one, but internal uh factors as well. So we have this whole thing with his dad and you know, him trying to learn different ways of thinking outside of the things that he's been taught from his father. So he gets recruited by some of the people that we met in the Suicide Squad who worked formerly for Task Force X, which is the Suicide Squad, and they form a team to stop something called Project Butterfly. Uh and they name themselves the 11th Street Kids. It's Atabayo, a character that's in there, um, which is Amanda Waller's daughter. You've got Economist, which is from Suicide Squad, you got Hardcore from Suicide Squad, uh, and then there's also a new character, Myrn, who is later revealed to be a butterfly that is living in his head, but he's trying to stop the rest of the butterflies from taking over the world, so on and so forth. Uh Peacemaker. Uh Peacemaker in this decides he's going to go with the 11th Street Kids, stop Project Butterfly. Uh, in this season, he has some fights with his dad. He, you know, deals with a lot of pain and things of that nature. Um, he eventually kills his father, and that is something that is a pain point to him going into season two. Also, he accidentally killed his brother when they were kids at because his father made them fight for entertainment of his father's friends and things like that. So he has a lot of uh trauma going on right now. And season one is basically him dealing with all these different pain points, trying to become a better person, a better hero, a better human, all of these things. So at the end of season one, everything's all cleaned up. He stops the butterfly's invasion, saves the world. You know, he starts getting the heroes kind of welcome, sort of. Uh he gets accepted from his friends, but not from the world at large because he is still a criminal. And then that takes us to season two of Peacemaker. So at the beginning of season two, we join up with our hero, Peacemaker, who is trying to find his way after defeating the butterflies at the end of season one, saving the world, and now he's trying to find some respect as a superhero because he did just save the world. So he tries to join the Justice Gang from the Superman movie that we talked about. He gets denied, and that leads him on a journey of self-discovery and trying to find that respect that he's looking for. So part of Peacemaker's powers, or whatever you want to call it, is that he has access to a quantum unfolding chamber, which is basically a closet that leads into a different dimension that has a bunch of different doors in them that also lead to different dimensions. That's the simple answer. When he's in this space, he finds a door that leads to a different dimension where his dad is a great guy, his brother is still alive, and the three of them are this crime-fighting trio, and he thinks that it's just great. Hardcourt has been blacklisted from all types of intelligence agencies, CIA, FBI, Argus, all this other kinds of things. So she's not having a great time. Court. Economist, he still works for Argus, but he is very much under surveillance because of his ties to Peacemaker. I should also mention that Rick Flagg Sr. is now the head of Argus and he has his personal vendetta against Peacemaker because of him killing his son at the end of Suicide Squad. All of that, give you a quick little recap, is leads me to my thoughts on season two. It was great. I thought everything in season two was perfect. All the relationships that I had watched in season one had showed up in season two, but they started to evolve in a really, really meaningful way. Hardcourt and Peacemaker have a love interest slash disdain on hardcourt side because she doesn't necessarily like Peacemaker, but she is slowly falling in love with him. Ataba is dealing with the fallout of her outing everybody at the end of season one. And then you have, like I said, Economist who is working for Argus, but he's under heavy surveillance because of his ties to Peacemaker. Now, this season hinges on this quantum unfolding chamber and Peacemaker's ability to go in and out of dimensions because every time he goes in and out of dimensions, the people in Argus kind of know what's going on, and they basically decide to steal the technology and use it to form a prison dimension that they can throw all these really hardened criminals and stuff into. That's season two, the recap. The thing that made this so good was that it is just an emotional roller coaster for our main character. He's steadily trying to find himself. And then when he thinks he found his ideal landing spot, this other dimension where his father's alive, where his brother's alive, and he is seemingly a hero to these people, he slowly finds out that this dimension is not what it seems. It is a dimension where the Nazis won World War II, and there are no minorities, no anything like that. And he has to deal with the fact that he was so blinded by his love for his father, for his longing for his brother, and those relationships that he was oblivious to the conditions of this world. You know, a fight ensues, you know, he ends up leaving, his dad dies again, but not by his hands, by another one of his friends' hands, and his brother lives, but they end up going back to his dimension, the original one, and he is still he is now dealing with his father dying again in a second dimension. He's now dealing with the ramifications of everything he did in the other dimension, because in the other dimension, hardcore loved him, and in this one, she doesn't. In the other dimension, people loved him, and in this one, they don't. And so he he is struggling with uh his personality. Like, where's he go? Who is he? What kind of hero does he want to be? All these kinds of things. And that leads me to everything being great about this season being undone in the last episode. In the last episode, we get basically all of the tie-ins that are gonna lead to it's basically a transition episode to the next thing that's going on in the DCU. And it was it felt fully disconnected from the rest of the season, it felt rushed, it felt just not cohesive with everything we were doing in all of the other seven episodes. So that's my only pain point with the Peacemaker series. Uh, everything else I feel was very well intentioned. All of the characters, the side characters were fleshed out in a really, really good way. Because I I, like I said in the previous segment, that's something that I look for I look for in good storytelling. Is are your side characters fleshed out? Do they have their own wants, their own ambitions, their own things like that that don't necessarily tie into the main character every single time? And this had that. So I was enjoying myself. I found myself, you know, being excited to watch the new episodes every week until that last episode. I saw that last episode and was like, what is this in comparison to the rest of the season? So that would be the only thing that I would I would say was disappointing about Peacemaker overall, was literally that last episode of season two. Uh, and then we also end season two with a cliffhanger of uh Peacemaker being separated from his friends and trapped in a separate dimension by Rick Flag Sr. Who seemingly gets his revenge on Peacemaker. And I just thought that like it just wasn't it just wasn't what I thought the last episode was gonna be based on what we saw from the rest of the season. But other than that, Peacemaker's really good, and you guys should go watch it. But now we're gonna get to the good, the bad, and the ugly on the Marvel side, on the other side of this break. Now it is time for the negative, and we're gonna be quick on these negatives because I don't like to really harp on the negative things, but there were two things. Marvel, the next four things, by the way, are gonna be Marvel, but these two we're gonna talk about very quickly because they're right next to each other and they were both hot garbage, and that was Marvel Zombies and the What If series. Oh my god, were they terrible? I was watching What If because I needed to catch up. I stopped watching season three, I think midway through, because the animation was not great, the storylines were boring, the characters and the things that they were doing were not fun, were not fun, were not enjoyable, were not entertaining at all. I I found myself basically gritting my teeth and burying it watching this show because it was just hot garbage. Hot garbage. Like the best thing that came out of it was some skins that came in Marvel Rivals, which is a video game that I play. But other than that, nothing really good came out of what if the story, like I said, the storylines, hot garbage, the animation, garbage. I I didn't enjoy one single thing about what if there's not anything that I can say that was really good about it. It was just hot garbage. And then you go to Marvel Zombies, which I thought was gonna be really cool, but it wasn't. The animation was the same as what if, so it was hard to watch with that. The storyline was very bland and basic and uninspired, I would say. The blade moon night combination in zombies slash what if was like a cool concept, executed poorly. The just everything about those two Marvel properties were garbage to me. And I tried to watch them, I paid attention, I tried to get through it, but I literally just found myself being like, when is this gonna be over? Because these are these the the animation was garbage. Everything, everything about it was garbage. You know, if you're into that, if you're into what if, if you're into Marvel Zombies, that's good for you, that's great for you. Enjoy what you enjoy. But my opinion, you can skip these. You can skip these a hundred percent. You're not missing out on anything. And I know that I I'm really, really not negative on things. I I generally try to find the positive points for things that I watch and things of that nature. I really just found myself wanting my time back. Like actually wanting my time back from watching these shows. I just I just don't feel like they put a lot of I want to say this delicately, I don't feel like they put a lot of creativity into what if. Because what if could have been amazing if the storylines were better. I could have got past the animation if the storylines were better, but they weren't. So, like all of it as a whole, just not good. They could have done so many different things, it could have been an episode of the week format instead of a linear storyline format. I think that would have helped what if for sure be more successful. Uh Marvel Zombies is its own self-contained, it was only four episodes, so that's really not a factor for Marvel Zombies. But there's three seasons of What If, and it's a linear story. Whereas from what I was understood about what if, it's basically you you ask the question like, what if Captain America was Captain or Peggy Carter instead of Steve Rogers? Like, that's a cool concept. What if you know Iron Man was brainwashed like the winter soldier? Like, that's a cool concept. But to have a linear story and for it to end with some ridiculous cosmic battle with the watcher and all these different things, it was so convoluted and so stupid. So just save yourself some time and don't watch what if or Marvel Zombies. We are gonna talk about some more positive things, though, uh as soon as I calm down from this rant. Alright, I calmed down. Now I want to talk about one of the best things that I've watched this entire year. And it's gonna be from Marvel, and it's gonna be Eyes of Wakanda. Now, Eyes of Wakanda is set in ancient ancient history, basically. Uh, but it's you know, six episodes and it's an anthology series. Uh follows the Wakanda war dogs, which are basically uh mercenary, not mercenaries, but like secret agents for Wakanda. And it follows them on missions throughout history, and these missions basically consist of these war dogs going into different parts of the world and recovering stolen vibranium technology and bringing it back to Wakanda. So there's an episode that takes place in ancient Greece, there's one that takes place in China, there's one that takes place in uh I want to say uh those two places and a couple of others, but basically each war dog has to go and infiltrate these societies, whether it be ancient the the ancient Greece or the Chinese dynasty, whatever the case may be, retrieve the vibranium and return it back to Wakanda. The reason that this was so good was A, it was an original story set in the past, the very distant past, where you can see how Wakanda was developed. It was a thriving nation, and how the vibranium really played a part in their not only prosperity, but also in terms of their isolationism because they wanted to keep all the vibranium to themselves, not out of uh a selfish motive, but out of a uh preservationist motive. So they were trying to preserve their culture, preserve their society and all these things, and they felt that being isolationist was the way to go. So at times when Vibranium or Vibranium Weapons got out into the world, they would send the war dogs to go get them. Now, the reason that this was so good was because we got to see brand new characters from Wakanda set in a past timeline. You get different interpretations of historical events with the Wakanda twist on it, and you get the finale that immediately goes into the events of Black Panther 1, the film. So I just thought it was well done. The animation was a little bit off in the beginning, but then once you get into the actual story, you forget all about the uh the animation, which is the exact opposite of what if, because the story was bad and it made the animation worse, in my opinion. But in Wakanda, Eyes of Wakanda, the story was fantastic, and you don't even really like care about the animation at a certain point, at least in my opinion. And I was watching it, and by the end of the six episodes, I wanted more episodes. That's how good this was. I I was upset genuinely that there was only six episodes. We follow, I want to say the character that we follow is she's she's the queen of Wakanda, and she time travels to back to a time where they took a vibranium item. So one of the war dogs took this vibranium axe and brought it back, but she got a the queen of Wakanda at the time got a vision that the horde was going to invade Wakanda and that they were going to be destroyed because they were isolationists. So she travels back in time and puts this axe back in its original place, which fast forward to Black Panther 1 is where Killmonger finds the axe in the museum. It's the same axe from Eyes of Walconda. So it ties into the MCU perfectly. And when you go on Disney Plus and you look up the MCU timeline in order, Isa Walconda is now the very first thing in the official MCU timeline. And I think that that is amazing. We get a uh Iron Fist mention or you know, picture or person. I forget the Iron Fist name, but in the Chinese dynasty part, we have an Iron Fist character, we have multiple different war dogs that we follow. I believe it's two or three. And it it's just it's just amazing. The storyline, the lore, the tie-in into the MCU, all of it is just a masterpiece. And like I said, I was hoping that there was going to be more than six episodes for this, so that's why I don't have really too much to talk on or elaborate on because it was so short. But the things that they accomplished in six episodes was fantastic, and I don't think, in my opinion, there was anything in the comic book realm that I watched this year that was better than Isa Wakanda. I don't think enough people talked about it. I don't think Disney Plus Marvel did a great job marketing it because it dropped on Disney Plus, and I didn't even know until I was scrolling on TikTok or something, and someone had mentioned Isa Wakanda being out. It was terrible marketing. They did the same thing with uh Iron Heart, excuse me, brain fart real quick. They did the same thing with Iron Heart, they just dropped it all on Disney Plus, not a whole lot of uh media, not a whole lot of uh promotion for that property. They did the same thing with Isaac Wakanda. I'm sensing a little pattern, but we're not gonna talk about that. But Isaac Wakanda was literally the best thing, is the best thing on Disney Plus right now when you're looking for Marvel animation hands down. Hands down, full stop. Eyes of Wakanda is the best thing I've seen this year from any comic book type of media. Whether it be film or animation, Isaac Wakanda is the best. So that is definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it. Go watch that right now and then come back to the episode. But watch it right now, though. We got one more thing to talk about, and then we're gonna wrap up this episode. Alright, last thing I want to talk about is on Disney Plus, and it's gonna be friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Now, again, same thing with Superman. I'm not a huge Spider-Man. I like him, don't love him. I could do without Spider-Man. But Spider-Man is a beloved character to a bunch of different people, and so I got recommended to watch this by one of my friends, and he was like, yo, you gotta watch this, it's really good. And he didn't lie. It's not better than Isaaconda, but for a Superman, or for a Superman, for a Spider-Man property, it was very good. Um, the animation on it took me a while to get used to, and then there was one particular scene in Spider-Man where they he I'm gonna try to explain this without you guys seeing it. It's so it might be a little difficult, but he is doing a long walk from I want to say it's school or from his job walking home, and the way they animated it was to make it look like he was walking through comic book panels to change the different scenes to progress how far he was walking. Hopefully that makes sense. But when I saw that, I understood why the animation was the way it was because they basically animated it to look like a comic book that was moving. And once I saw that, I completely flipped my opinion on the animation because when I saw that, I was like, oh, okay, I totally understand what you guys are doing. I get why the animation looks the way it does. And I thought it was a great touch once once I saw that. But before that, I was not digging the animation. But after that, I understood it and it made sense with the story. Uh second thing, they they didn't do the normal Spider-Man deal where he is kid in high school, gets bit by a radioactive spider, and then oh my god, he's automatically super uh automatically Spider-Man. They did the radioactive spider, but they did it in a way where it's it wasn't the typical It wasn't the typical way it happens. Uh the way it happens in this one is Doctor Strange opens a portal, he's fighting someone that looks to be very Venom and at the end of the fight, he takes Venom back through the portal that he opened, but the radioactive spider happens to get cut off from the portal and lands on Peter and bites Peter on the neck, and that's how he gets his Spider-Man powers. Now, this differs from other iterations where he is in a lab, the spider gets free, and the spider bites him. It's a little bit different, and the reason it's different is because it gets wrapped up at the end of the season because you see Spider-Man fighting with Doctor Strange, and they have to stop whatever's going on with this uh black hole machine. So Doctor Strange opens a portal because the black hole machine is the thing that let Venom through in the first place. So you see Doctor Strange go to use the eye of Agamoto, aka the timestone, to rewind time, but he opens the portal and he rewound time to the point where Peter was in the first episode. So it brings it full circle and it basically shows like that Peter was fated to be Spider-Man. So I thought that was a really cool take on his origin story. We did get some switch-ups for some characters, namely Harry Osborne, Norman Osborne. Uh, they changed them to African American characters. It didn't change necessarily what they did. Um, Harry is still Peter's, one of Peter's best friends. Norman, as opposed to being a scientist and businessman, is also Harry or Harry's father, but also Spider-Man's kind of mentor and financial backer. So Norman Osborne finds out Peter is a Spider-Man, and he is basically like, yo, I want to help you out. He helps him with suits. He's the guy in the chair for a while, and you know, we find out that he is actually using Spider-Man for nefarious things, just like the regular Norman Osborne would, but it was just a little bit packaged a little bit differently. Uh, we also have uh some other some other characters that had different origins, namely uh Tombstone, which is a villain in Spider-Man's Rogue Gallery, that was instead of being an older man, ended up being one of Peter's high school friends, and because of a chemical accident, starts to turn into the character known as Tombstone. So I thought that was really cool. Uh a really cool take on that character. There was one other character that I thought was different. There was, I forget what the girl's name is, and I didn't really understand what her powers were towards the end through the whole season. She has some form of magic, but that was uh Peter's Peter and Harry's third friend as well. So I thought that was really cool to add that. There was no Mary Jane character in this, so Peter didn't necessarily have a love interest in that way, which I thought was a really cool direction. I also enjoy the Spider-Man when he's in high school and he's having to deal with being a high school student who is also a genius, who is also Spider-Man, and then having that relationship not be a love interest, but be a friendship that is pulling him in different directions. I thought was a very, very good change because the love interest, Spider-Man love interest situation is kind of it's kind of boring and kind of played out, to be honest. So I thought that that was a good direction to where he's getting pulled in directions from his friends instead of a love interest. The other thing that I thought was really cool was the different suits that Norman Osborne makes for him. He is trying out all these different suits, and he's like, yo, this isn't me, this is not me. And he finally settles on the suit, and it's basically the future foundation suit. It's the white suit with the black spider on it, I believe is the one he settles on for a while. And then towards the end, he gets his classic red and blue Spider-Man suit. So that was really cool. The the journey for him basically earning his earning his suit as opposed to him just getting it handed to him. Uh he did make his original suit, which you know is the sweatshirt with the spider draw, the goggles, that whole situation. So I thought that was a really cool touch to like show showcase different Spider-Man suits from different uh times, and then some original suits as well. Um, but for the nitpicks, some of the storylines were super obvious. Super obvious to the point where it made the characters that were involved in those storylines uninteresting, particularly the scorpion, which is one of his villains in his rogue gallery. The character that eventually became Scorpion was the leader of the gang called the Scorpions. Which it's like, could we not be so obvious, please? That was kind of one of the my main gripes. And then there was certain character decisions with some of the ancillary characters, not any of the characters I named, with some of the ancillary characters like Tombstone's little brother, that character was really annoying to me. I found no enjoyment with his storyline, and I thought the storyline of his older brother, Peter's friend, joining the gang to get his brother out of the gang was it made sense, but it it also turned me off to his brother as a character, even though his brother is a very, very minor character, it was still something that I was like, ugh, like I wish that I wish they had done that better. But other than that, My Adventures of Spider-Man, pretty good, pretty good. Season two is already greenlit, it's on the way. I will be watching it, we'll be covering it here. But those are the things on the comic book side that I watched over the almost year since consistent recording. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Listen, download, subscribe, follow Armdark Mamba on all platforms, and I will see you guys on the next episode. Peace.