119: The Guilt-Trip Superhero

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2012

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

With great power comes the responsibility to book great guests. And so when it came time to discuss “The Amazing Spider-Man” and Spidey in general, Jason turned to reknowned spider-fans Andy Ihnatko and Dan Benjamin. We discuss how the Spidey in the new movie is a different sort of guilt-trip superhero. Dan explains why you can’t actually kill a spider. Andy previews his new comic book, The Indigestible Spider-Man. We touch on the changes in Ultimate Spider-Man and speculate about the soon-to-arrive Amazing Spider-Man #700. Jason sings two different Spidey theme songs and does his J. Jonah Jameson impression. This giant-sized episode is more Spidey than you can shake a web at.

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 119, December 2012.
0:11.2	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast. I'm Jason Snell, your host, and the topic today is something near and dear to my heart.
0:16.9	It is my favorite superhero of all time. Spider-Man. He does whatever a spider can. And to talk
0:24.0	about many aspects of Spitey from the comics to animated shows, to we could talk about that
0:30.1	crazy Japanese TV show. We could talk about the 70s show with Nicholas Hammond. And of course,
0:35.6	we can talk about the movies with both the Sam Ramey version and then the new version,
0:41.2	The Amazing Spider-Man, which came out this summer.
0:43.7	Joining me to talk about Spitey are two people who I think are fairly expert in the ways of the webhead.
0:52.3	Five-by-Fie's very own Dan Benjamin is back,
0:55.7	and it's great to have you here.
0:56.8	Hi, Dan.
0:57.8	Hey, man.
0:58.3	Thanks for having me back.
0:59.2	I like this.
0:59.7	I can be a guest.
1:01.0	I can relax.
1:01.8	It's like a party.
1:03.5	Yeah, there's no stress when you're a guest.
1:04.9	I love being a guest. It's like, oh, God, what do I do now? But just relax, sit back. We'll talk about Peter Parker a little bit.
1:13.6	And also joining me is Andy Anatoe.
1:16.9	Who else?
1:17.7	But Andy and not co.
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