Spider-Man Crawlspace Podcast

*Funny itune reviews *We say goodbye to George and welcome back Kevin to the show. * Morbius gets an ongoing *Speculation on Amazing Spider-Man 700 and if Dan Slott will stick around * Brad shares funny stories of going to the Chicago Comic Con. [power p

Writer Paul Jenkins talked to the Crawlspace at the 2012 Chicago Comic Con. Highlights of the interview inlcude: *Why he loved writing Spider-Man and focusing on Uncle Ben. * Untold stories he would still like to tell with Spider-Man. There is one with the Hypno Hustler that has to be told someday. * His new project with Humberto Ramos called Fairy Quest *The transition from writing the Peter Parker title to Spectacular Spider-Man.

Artist Alex Saviuk talks about his amazing 25 year run of penciling Spider-Man. He first started with filling in on Amazing Spider-Man. He then had a seven year run on Web of Spider-Man starting in 1987. Since then he has penciled the Spider-Man newspaper strip on Sunday's and he inks the dailys. I had a chance to talk to him at the the Chicago Comic Con and he's a a great guy. I will add more video clips in HD soon, but I wanted to get all the audio out for a podcast.

In this episode we discuss the Spider-Man related panels that took place at the San Diego Comic Con. We're joined by Bertone, Donovan, Stella and Eddie. Highlights include: *Bertone hangs out with the cast of Glee. *Stellas thoughts on the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. * The Crawlspace gets black-listed?

In this episode we talk to Cullen Bunn the new writer of the Venom title. Bertone interviewed him at the San Diego Comic Con. Highlights of the interview include: *The reveal of the new Crime Masters identity and his connection to Betty Brant. *Flash trying to become a super hero even though it brings such hurt to his family. *Future of Betty and Flashs relationship. *Writing the Spider-Man Season One book

In this episode we disucss: *Spider-Man getting a new sidekick named Alpha * Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man #687 and 688 *Top Ten Worst Spider-Man Villains

In this show we review the Amazing Spider-Man movie. *We discuss who we think was at the end of the movie in the shadows. *We wonder why there is so much hate towards the Raimi trilogy now. * We each list a pro and a con and a grade. *We share our funny movie going experiences as we see the film.

We continue to take live callers from around the world to discuss the “Amazing Spider-Man” movie. Highlights include: *Thoughts on Captain Stacey’s role in the movie and how he departed from the comics. * How we’d celebrate Spider-Man’s 100th anniversary. *We also review the the Marvel Swimsuit Edition of the 1990s. Who knew Morbius had a swimsuit?

In this episode we take live callers from around the world. *We hear reviews about The Amazing Spider-Man movie. *The folks also share some fun stories on what the audience members did in the theater. *We have a return appearance by Kevin and Stella to the show.

We wrap up the message board questions from June. Some highlights include *What presents would you give Peter Parker for his 50th birthday? * We share our favorite Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episodes * Favorite Spider-Man prose novels are discussed * The panel also shares our favorite J.Jameson Jameson moments.

Highlights of this episode include: *This Month in Spider-History with JR. We travel back to June 1974. * Bertone has a run in with the Wal-Mart Spider-Bus. * Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 685 and 686 *Message Board questions

Highlights include: * The Spider-Panel disucusses the constant fans vs comic creators debate. * The Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon has received the green light for a second season. The gang discusses the news and if the cartoon is aimed for anyone over 10 years old. *JR discusses the Iron Patriot armor being in the Iron Man 3 movie. We also wonder what it would be like if Willem Dafoe would show up as Norman Osborn. * A comic shop by the name of Caffeinated Comics has agreed to shoot a porn in the shop. *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 685 and 686.

Here are the highlights of the episodes. *Spider-Man recently water boarded the Sandman in a recent issue. The gang discusses if this was out of character. * The new Civil War prose novel omits his marriage and makes him the victim of Tigra's advances. The gang discusses the changes. *A recent cover of Astonishing X-Men celebrated marriage in the Marvel Universe. They omitted the most famous wedding of all time. * Voice actor Josh Keaton was recently dubbed over his Spider-Man lines on the Avengers Earth's Mightest Heroes cartoon. Drake Bell re-recorded his lines. The gang chimes in on the Drake and Josh debate. *Spider-Man saves the Spanish economy with Spider-towels. *George also has a contest where you can win a trade paperback. Listen to the show for details on what you have to do.

The gang continues to answer message board questions. Highlights include: * Chris gives his pros and cons of Dan Slott's run thus far. *JR talks about how Spidey needs more female villains. *BD talks about how Peter and Mary Jane work well together and what type of story lines work best. *Suggestions on how to turn on women....to Spider-Man. *What Spider-Man story line would make an awesome video game?

Highlights include: *This Month in Spider-History with JR. We go back to May 1976 * Recommendations for comics, books and movies from the Spider-Cast * Message Board questions and answers *Top Era's in Spider-History *Managing characters status quos

Highlights of the show include: *Thoughts on a recent Slott interview discussing upcoming story lines including Amazing Spider-Man # 700 * The gang shares their thoughts on the recent Amazing Spider-Man trailer * Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 683 and # 684

Highlights include: *The gang shares their top five supporting cast in Spider-Man's life. *The gang also shares their top five villains in Spidey's life. * Spider-Man toasters and ice cubes? We discuss some of the new Weird Marvel Collectibles * The 616 Spider-Man is going to meet Mile Morales in the new Spider-Men mini series. The gang discusses if Marvel is out of ideas.

We answer Message Board questions on this episode. Some highlights include: *JR discusses Doc Ock's image to the Marvel Universe and if they know of all his crimes. * Bertone discusses the top five insane Marvel girlfriends * Director Marc Webb has said that Gwen Stacy falls in love with Peter Parker and that Mary Jane falls in love with Spider-Man. The gang discusses that idea.

Highlights include: *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 681 and # 682 *This Month in Spider-History. JR tackles April 1987 and reviews one of the all time worst Spider-Man stories of all time. If you haven't read Web of Spider-Man # 25 search it out for how bad the book is and enjoy it in all it's awful glory.

Highlights include: * Itune reviews, both pros and cons. * Discussion on the Amazing Spider-Man movie and how it will not have the Lizard in a lab coat. *Reviews of the first two episodes of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. *The Daily Bugle is allegedly a news network in the new movie, the gang discusses the pro's and cons. *Marvel is launching an ongoing 99 cent Nova book. Is this the future of comics?

Highlights include: * Itune reviews, both pros and cons. * Discussion on the Amazing Spider-Man movie and how it will not have the Lizard in a lab coat. *Reviews of the first two episodes of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. *The Daily Bugle is allegedly a news network in the new movie, the gang discusses the pro's and cons. *Marvel is launching an ongoing 99 cent Nova book. Is this the future of comics?

Highlights of this episode include: *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 679.1 and 680 *Kevin Cushing and Michael Bailey depart the show. They have mp3 goodbyes in this episode and the gang says goodbye to our brothers. *Q and A Message Board Questions. *Will Spidey be around for another 50 Years?

Highlights of this episode include: *Spider-News *Possible Venom movie *New Spider-Man cartoon discussion *Marvel Legends return with an $18 price point

Highlights of this episode include: *Our monthly recommendations * Message board Q and A *Some of the best include: What Spidey character would be great in a sitcom? *Would Ben Reilly approve of Kaine taking his title of the Scarlet Spider?

Highlights of this episode include: *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man 677-679 and Daredevil #8 *JR takes us back to February 1998 for "This Month in Spider-History." He tackles the "Who Did Joey Z" storyline.

Highlights of this episode include: *The Spider-Panel discusses our thoughts on the new Amazing Spider-Man movie trailer * Andrew Garfield has said the next movie Spider-Man should be half African American and half Hispanic. The gang has a heated debate over this one. *We discuss the new 2012 Spider-Armor suit. *A Fox News affiliate took comic books to task over too much sex in the books. The gang talks about this biased reporting.

*The gang discusses the now defunct Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA *We share what Spider-Clothing we have in our closet. George evidently has some Galactus boxers. *Discussion if Flash Thompson should get his legs back if Venom leaves him. It's a discussion of resetting classic characters to their original version. *Thoughts on the new Scarlet Spider suit.

*Zach talks about why people are more accepting of Kaine as Scarlet Spider as opposed to Arana as Spider-Girl * We talk about who would work great in a Marvel Team Up movie. *Which Spider-Villain is lamer? Freak or Spidercide *BD's hope for the Spider-Universe in 2012. *And the age old question of how do you get kids into comics?

Highlights of the topics the gang talks about on the episode :*Review of Amazing Spider-Man 676 *Recommendations *Who should replace Slott on Amazing *Should Spider-Man create a team? If so who's on it?

Highlights of the topics the gang talks about on the episode : *Christopher Waltz possibly cast as Norman Osborn in ASM Movie? *Itune reviews from the UK and the US * Thoughts on recent Crawlspace podcast interview with Peter David. He talked about the controversial One More Day storyline. *A fan film is being produced that will give an ending to the 1990?s animated Spider-Man cartoon. It will wrap up the Mary Jane storyline. *Review of Amazing Spider-Man # 675

In this latest episode the Spider-Panel answers your dozens of message board questions. Here are some highlights. *Kevin casts the Crawlspace movie *Betty Brant gets the symbiote, what happens? *Favorite 2011 Spider-Man story line

Spider-Man writer Peter David is our guest on this episode. Some of the highlights includes David talking about: *Writing and researching for the Spider-Man Vault *Writing the Spider-Man: Edge of Time Video Game *What it was like to walk with Spider-Man Macys Day Thanksgiving Balloon * We answer message board questions in which Peter talks about the controversial One More Day story line,thoughts on Flash and Betty Brant and our friend Spideydude gets a big shout out.

Topics discussed in this episode include: *JR takes us back in time to December 1975. This is by far his funniest history lesson of all time. *The gang reviews Amazing Spider-Man # 673 and 674 * Recommendations from the gang.

Topics included in this show are: *Former Spider-Man writer J.Michael Straczynski vs Spider-Man Editor Steve Wacker. It's an Amazing Facebook fight and the gang gives a dramatic reading of the Facebook exchange. *First look at the Amazing Spider-Man movie Lizard and its' on a Pez dispenser? *Marvel is starting to make other titles ship twice a month like Amazing Spider-Man. Is this a good thing or a desperate cash grab? * We discuss the CBR poll that showed that a majority prefer a married Spider-Man.

Here are some highlights of this latest episode. The gang tackles questions about: *The sexiest Spidey moment * Most embarrassing Spidey issue *What does George like on his bacon sandwich *How much is Amazing Spider-Man 300 really worth? *We also go off topic and talk about where DS9 ranks in the Star Trek universe.

Highlights of the episode includes: *Reading of Itunes reviews. *Our favorite Spider-Man cliffhanger of all time. *JR debates who's a better villain Khan or Norman Osborn. *We share what should in the last panel of the last Spider-Man story. *Is there any other female character besides MJ that would make sense to marry Peter Parker.

Topics discussed on this episode include: *Jim Shooter quotes Steve Ditko as saying 70 percent of the the creation of Spider-Man is him and 30 percent is Stan Lee *Marvel has laid off several workers and is canceling titles *This Month in Spider-History tackles November 1977 *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 671 and 672 * Recommendations *BD also sprinkles in some funny musical cues.

Here are the highlights of the episode: *The gang answers the dozens of message board questions. *Bertone talks about a potential Betty Brant series he would write. *JRs son Spencer gives a review of the Spider-Man Edge of Time Video Game. *George shares why he hates hoodies. *The gang discusses why Marvel can not create legacy characters like DC

Some of the highlights of this episode include: *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man #669 and 670 *Spider-History with JR Oct 1990 * Recommendations *BD grades some new DC 52 books

Here are the topics we hit up on this latest issue. *Stella has retired from the show, the gang says goodbye. We also welcome Bertone as a full time cast member. *We discuss the return of the Scarlet Spider and who could be behind the mask. *A Spider-Collector has gathered every variant of Amazing Spider-Man # 666. *Back Issue sales are down dramatically, are comics becoming like old records? *Including free digital downloads of comics with your comic and will they poly bag every comic?

Here are some of the topics we discuss on this episode. *Itune reviews. Click on this link and I will read your review on the next show. *Death of Cliff Robertson who played Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man movies. *Reviews of Amazing Spider-Man # 665-668. The Betty Brant issue causes quite the debate. *This Month in Spider-History. JR takes us back to September 1986. *Recomendations

It's an annual tradition and we bring you the 2011 version of Spider-Jeopardy. Who will win this year? Bertone has 60 Spider-related questions. There are a six categories which include: *J.J.Jameson *Peter Parkers Pad *Big Time *Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #1 *TV/ Movies *School Days

Crawlspace Reporter Josh Bertone interviewed a lot of folks at the San Diego Comic Con in 2010 and 2011. Here is a hodge podge of those interviews. *Greg Weisman who was the producer of the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon. In the interview he talks about his awesome back up story with Flash Thompson. * Sara Ballantine who was the voice of Mary Jane in the 1990?s Spider-Man cartoon. *Jennifer Hale she was the voice of the Black Cat in the 1990?s Spider-Man cartoon. She also played Silver Sable in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game. As if that was not enough she played Spider-Woman in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon. *Erik Larsen had the daunting task of replacing Todd McFarlane on pencils in the 1990s, but his Amazing Spider-Man knocked it out of the park. *Eddie DeAngelini is a regular on the Crawlspace but he also is a Spider-Expert who is working on a Stan Lee documentary. The name of the project is called With Great Power the Stan Lee story.

We celebrate our 150th show with an interview with Spider-Man Editor Steve Wacker. Josh Bertone and Donovan Grant talked to him at San Diego and he had some interesting comments about his tenure on the book. He reveals his hits and misses with the book. He also has says a few controversial things about this website. I have a rebuttal at the end of the episode.

*Discussion of Mile Morales becoming the new Ultimate Spider-Man *Talk of Comic Retailers having to buy hundreds of copies to get their store on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man *We discuss the image of a burning hoodie. *Thoughts on the Amazing Spider-Man movie trailer. *Stay tuned after the episode for a fun outtake.

We wrap up the last hour of live callers on the show. We are all celebrating five years of the podcast and 13 years of the website. Some highlights include: * Thoughts on Miles Morales *JR gives his thoughts on Norman coming back to torment the Marvel Universe. *Zach talks about his hoodie and footie pajamas. *Worst Peter Parker moment. *Also stick around after the show for a teaser of a new podcast from Michael Bailey.

We celebrate the fifth year of the Crawlspace podcast and the 13th year of the website by opening up the phone lines. People from around the world call in. Bertone, George, Stella, Zach and JR join me to celebrate. Some of the topics we talk about include: *What Marvel stories need to be in trades * What embarrassing part of our lives would we want to OMIT? * Best and worst episode of any Spider-Man cartoon? * Michael and Kevin couldn't make this show but that doesn't stop George from doing impressions and answering their questions.

We wrap up the last hour of the Crawlspace reporters talking about their adventures at the San Diego Comic Con. Some highlights include: *Bertone almost getting arrested by Shield Agents *What goodies they bought on the dealer floor *We take questions for the reporters from the message board and Facebook posters *We answer who is Floyd and how Mary Janes dad killed him.

The Crawlspace reporters visited the San Diego Comic Con in late July to cover news for the site. In this show we talk to them about their experience at the largest convention in the world. Some highlights of the show include *Some of their experiences running into people in costume * What it was like being a member of the press * They describing the Spider-Man comic panel. Zach of course asks a clone question.

We wrap up the rest of the message board questions in this episode. Here are some highlights on this show: *BD's favorite Spider-Man covers of all time. *JR ponders taking a job with Norman Osborn *The gang is asked our favorite Spider-Spinoff *Thoughts on latest Spider-Mini series