Review And Media By Stu

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Episode #38 - Kingpinned


Peter Parker gets a new job at The Daily Bugle and learns of a villain control a new medicine scam that his Aunt May's involved with! Spider-Man sets out to stop the Kingpin of Crime!

Review:

This episode fairs a lot better than last weeks, but the immediately noticeable aspect is that there�s a good 5 or 6 minutes of pure stock footage. Nearly 1/3 of the whole episode is stock footage, and because of the stupid new backgrounds, it�s ugly stock footage. When I watch it now, I simply fast-forward it. It�s that bad.

There is one thing I love about this episode, it has a great �Spider-Man: Year One� tone to it, and the world at large isn�t actually aware of Spidey�s existence. This episode even gives us Spidey�s first meeting with J. Jonah Jameson, Fearless Publisher of The Daily Bugle. It also introduces Kingpin. They didn�t do too bad a job with Kingpin, especially considering we hadn�t seen Frank Miller�s fascinating take on him over in Daredevil yet. He made for a very good thug. The plot with the bomb was pretty good, but it was overshadowed by everything else.

Easily my favourite of the Bashki episodes. I actually made it to the end of this one!
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