Ultimate Spider-Man Halloween special!

[enyawd72]

I've eased up on this series a bit since there have been a handful of pretty good episodes, this sounds fantastic though.

Spidey teams up with Blade, Werewolf By Night, Living Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and Man-Thing against Dracula.

http://www.marvelousnews.com/index.php?catid=286&itemid=16456

[Earth 2 Chris]

Werewolf by Night..Agent of Shield?

So they've made these guys Marvel's versions of the Creature Commandos?

Okay, I'll go with that. This looks like fun.

Chris

[madmarva]

Yeah, very cool idea for Holloween.

[PNGwynne]

Aww, no Golem, It, or Zombie?

Seriously, though, sounds fun.

[jwyblejr]

They're calling them The Howling Commandos?

[jwyblejr]

Bit that annoyed me the most was Spidey going "Eeek! Monsters!" All of that stuff he's had to deal with before and he's scared of monsters?!

[johnnystorm]

They're calling them The Howling Commandos?

A few years back Marvel did a miniseries comic version of this concept:


Nick Fury's Howling Commandos
Group publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Nick Fury's Howling Commandos #1 (December 2005)
Created by Keith Giffen
In-story information
Type of organization Team
Leader(s) S.H.I.E.L.D.
Agent(s) Abominable Snowman
Frank
Glob
Gorgolla
Gorilla-Man
Grogg
The Living Mummy
Nina Price
Warwolf
Werewolf by Night
Zombie
Nick Fury's Howling Commandos
Series publication information
Schedule Monthly
Format Ongoing series
Genre
Horror, superhero
Publication date December 2005 – May 2006
Number of issues 6

[madmarva]

I liked the Giant Size Man Thing joke.

[cockyhoskins]

This was a very enjoyable episode! Perfect for Halloween. madmarva, the Giant Size Man Thing joke was great!

Seeing all the older characters from my Marvel childhood was just awesome.

[enyawd72]

I thought it was a mixed bag...Man-Thing looked great, as did Frankenstein's Monster. The rest...not so much. HATED the look of Dracula. Why oh why couldn't they have used the classic Gene Colan look?

Another thing that bothered me was how Werewolf By Night sounded completely normal...I wish they'd stop using celebrity voice actors and go back to using REAL voice actors who create CHARACTERS.

[Aricosaur]

I've been enjoying Ultimate Spider-man from the beginning. A great, fresh take on the character that is also true to the original feel. I also really liked the Halloween Special.

Did anybody else see the surprise ending? It totally floored me. When the episode seemed to be over the first time I noticed that there was an awful lot of time left.

I liked the Giant Size Man Thing joke.

Yeah, I liked that too. They used the same logo design as the original comic and everything. And then the call back (or continuing running joke?) with the Invisible man at the end of the episode!

I thought it was a mixed bag...Man-Thing looked great, as did Frankenstein's Monster. The rest...not so much. HATED the look of Dracula. Why oh why couldn't they have used the classic Gene Colan look?

Another thing that bothered me was how Werewolf By Night sounded completely normal...I wish they'd stop using celebrity voice actors and go back to using REAL voice actors who create CHARACTERS.

They're using the same character design for Dracula that was introduced in Avengers: Assemble. They are trying to go for a movie universe feel with the character designs over there and all the current Disney XD shows are loosely in the same continuity. It took some getting used to but I'm OK with it now.

I didn't have a problem with the Werewolf by Night voice. I thought it was funny that he had the big dog like pads on his hands.