Welcome to Marvelous Disney, the podcast that discusses the most recent doings at one of the more dynamic divisions of the Walt Disney company, which of course is Marvel entertainment.

My co-host, the amazing Aaron Adams and I are recording this week's show on Wednesday, August 11th.

This morning, the very first episode of the brand new series, Marvel What If, Marvel Studios first animated series, just it went live on that subscription streaming service.

So what do we think, Aaron?

I was completely backwards on my prediction. I was thinking that What If was going to be all the different ways that they were going to be able to lead us around cinematically into the alternate universes.

So that way, when we do get there cinematically, it was like our primer we already knew where we were at.

But it's actually the opposite. They're using the Cinematic Universe as the primer to like speed tell a story.

We got the entire Captain America, the first Avengers story, told from a different perspective in like 30 minutes.

And it was awesome because all the shorthand was, here's a scene you remember obviously because we ripped it straight from the movie.

The difference, which led to a different scene straight from the movie, but others a difference, which led to a different scene straight from the movie, but others a difference.

And it kept growing and building and changing and evolving and it was just a treat.

And I want to say, the best animation Marvel has ever done period ever.

Can you think of anything that's looked slicker than that?

Well, you know, the weird thing is I was somewhat surprised to hear there were a number of the reviews from the trade.

So you know, not happy with this look that lands somewhere between 2D and 3D.

And it's like, what the hell are you talking about? It looks great from the get go.

I mean, what about that opening where it just sort of like gets marveled by way of Twilight Zone meets the outer limits, the energy, the look.

I even love their take on the watcher where he's there, but he's not there.

Right. That is some old school animation.

And I love when they would do that kind of negative space thing where you'd get the outline of the character and two bright supernovas would be the eyes or whatever, but you would get like this ethereal sense.

I mean, it's kind of like when you're trying to describe a god, it's not the man in a beard, right?

It's a different thing. It's a bigger thing. It's more magical and mystical and all encompassing.

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