Episode #7 - Cry Vulture
Original Airdate - 10th February, 2001

Counter Earth's version of The Vulture attacks Spider-Man, believing him to be in league with The High Evolutionary.

Credits
Story By: Roger Slifer, Michael Reaves, Will Meugniot
Written By: Diane Duane, Peter Morwood
Directed By: Patrick Archibald

Review: I’m not sure why this show keeps turning the alternate version of Spidey’s rogues gallery good, but I’m not really seeing the point of it all. This time The Vulture is turned into a good guy, but to be honest, he’s so much like The Green Goblin I’m wondering why they didn’t bother bringing him back. Spidey and The Vultures fight takes place for exactly the same reason as why webhead fought The Goblin. The series seems to be using the same bad ideas over again – for a series that is 6 or 7 episodes in, it shouldn’t be running out of steam this quickly.

The Vulture himself was pretty uninspired. His childhood back story didn’t really hold my interest and there’s too many similarities to The Green Goblin not to notice.

The plot of the episode is pretty shallow, and Spider-Man’s reluctance to give The Beastials what they deserve is getting confusing. They were experimenting on people, and when their operation was destroyed, Spider-Man stopped the people from killing Sir Ram. Fair enough, Spider-Man doesn’t murder. But Ram got away with it completely… Spidey didn’t attempt to stop him, which strikes me as confusing. This plot with The Beastials running the world doesn’t seem to be going anywhere as Spidey won’t oppose them unless they attack him. It’s getting tiresome. Strike that, it’s always been tiresome, now it’s just getting irritating.

The episode’s ending did leave me intrigued, however, with John turning into The Man Wolf. I’ve never been too big a fan of this character, let’s see how he holds up in this show…