![]() ![]() Įncouraging Firestar “Come on baby, light your fire!”.On working out how to defeat Video Man: “Hooray for education!” Iceman, being the star of the episode, gets some pretty good lines, which Frank Welker delivers with the humour that they’re intended with: Something that becomes a pattern with these three episodes is that the main story ends up becoming secondary to the origin story, so character development is prioritised over plot and action, which is fine, but it feels a little bit of a waste of an otherwise decent premise (Video Man drawing out a quasi-Pacman and a UFO from a Space Invaders-esque game to menace the Amazing Friends is quite fun). Iceman is quick to bring it up to him when JJ gets trapped inside the scary arcade machine world that Video Man was spawned from (when asked to save him, Iceman rebuts sarcastically “Do I get a signed photo if I do?”). Jonah Jameson, played up as the real skeevy huckster that he is, initially putting a bounty out to capture Spider-Man that Iceman went in for. Video Man, the quite lame 2D computer game villain, returns as the guy to team up to fight, but the main antagonist is really J. We get a flashback cameo for the X-Men (original lineup of Professor Charles Xavier, Angel, Beast, Marvel Girl and Cyclops), who will be back in a more prominent role in the Firestar episode. Immediately noticeable is how good the animation is with lots of cool background details, light and shade, special effects and things to pick out in many shots. Iceman begins to lose his powers, prompting the use of a memory probe to contrive a reason to recall his origin. Don Glut (prolific animation writer and pretty much the “father” of the Dinobots) handled the Iceman and Spidey episodes and Christy Marx, head writer for Jem, handled Firestar. Three episodes, each focusing on the origins of Spidey and his two college roommates/partners in crime fighting, Iceman and Firestar. Today, I’m just going to look at season 2, the shortest season, from 1982. The show came out in 1981, alongside the solo Spider-Man show, and ran for three seasons, spanning 24 episodes. Well, as my review of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians got some likes and there were requests for reviews of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, I figured I’d give them a shot. ![]()
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