SPOILERS! In 1962, in the pages of Amazing Fantasy issue 15, Steve Ditko and Stan Lee introduced a comic book hero to the world unlike any they had seen before. Spider-Man (a.k.a. Peter Parker) was a young man whose destiny changed one day after being bitten by a radioactive spider.  Using his newfound powers in an attempt to gain fame and fortune, Parker would end up learning a valuable lesson when, in an act of selfishness, he refused to stop a thief during a robbery and that same criminal would end up killing his own beloved Uncle Ben. In Spider-Man’s debut story the phrase “With great power comes great responsibility.” would become forever enshrined onto the hearts and minds or comic fans and, eventually, children everywhere as Marvel Comics‘s wallcrawler would become a world famous phenomenon. In time, Spider-Man would become one of the most recognizable characters on the planet.

Over the years Marvel would introduce other characters who would be inspired by the original hero that Ditko and Lee created. There would be Spider-Women, talking pig Spider-Men, and in 2011 Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli would create the character of Miles Morales who, in the Ultimate line of Marvel Comics, would become Spider-Man after Peter Parker was killed after a valiant final battle with his rouge’s gallery. All of these versions of Spider-Man would be different in their own way but they would all be part of a legacy that had been originally founded and shaped by the original Spider-Man created in the early sixties.

This past weekend saw the release of an animated movie in which many of those Spider-People meet in an inspired, action packed, and heart filled romp that also happens to be a fantastic piece of animated art. Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse uses the ingenuity of the moving picture and combines it with aspects of the sequential art of comic books to make a film that quite literally changes the game for superhero movies. This week Paul Edwards, Reyna Velarde, J. Holtham, Leeahd Goldberg, and Kristian Horn all sit down to discuss the Spider-Movie that’s taking the nerd and filmmaking community by storm!

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