It appears that many fans are not digging Marvel's latest cartoon incarnation of the web-crawler, known as Ultimate Spider-man. After 6 episodes, with mostly negative reviews, fans have started voicing their hate directly to the show runners, through popular social media.
While visiting the facebook pages of Marvel's head of TV, Jeph Loeb, as well the writers of Ultimate Spider-man show, Man of action, i noticed quite a few messages attacking the show and sometimes Loeb himself. Below are couple examples (you can read more by checking the facebook pages of the show runners):
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Ultimate spider-man is horrible!
This is not a spier-man show. Where's parker's money problem? where is the parker luck? where is spider-man learning from his uncle ben's last words? This show is a big "F**K YOU" to all of spiderman fans who were waiting for this show.
and by the way, the spider-cycle SUX and makes no sense. Seriously worst spider-man show of the last 20 years.
This show DOES NOT HAVE MARVEL DNA, IT HAS LOEB's SH!t-N-A "
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Look, I'm just a kid but I love Spider-Man. I look up to him I always have and up until now, I've always trusted Marvel to do him justice. This whole "Ultimate Spider-Man" thing just isn't justice. It hurts me to watch the show. In fact, this is injustice. First of all, this show was a HUGE letdown for me, my friends and family because we LOVE the ultimate spidey comics. This thing where you put a bunch of ideas that "look good on paper" into a show and call it "Ultimate Spider-Man" just lets down so many fans. The show barely follows the comics. Secondly, I understand that the show is for kids but even children seem to know terrible writing when they see it. My 10 year old brother and his elementary school friends hate the show with a passion. We all miss Spectacular so very much. "
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I gotta agree with most the people here... I had really high hopes for USM and after 3 episodes, it just feels like a rushed and lacking in story. It explains everything in cutaways like the viewer is dumb and doesn't see what's going on. It's really annoying. After The Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes did so well on Disney XD I really thought USM would follow suite and give us another quality show with great animation and story... "
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Jeph Loeb. Why are you cancelling Earth's Mightiest Heroes? Disney XDs top rated show. To make a show set in the same continuuity as Ultimate Shitty-Man. I mean Spider-Man. You know...the new [frick]ING SHIT cartoon that you are heavily involved in. The one that is about 1% as good as Spectacular Spider-Man which you WERE NOT involved in. "
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Really disappointed of Ultimate spider-man. With all the writers and producers attached to this cartoon, including you sir, i thought it will be a show both kids and adults can enjoy. But after watching 4 epsiodes im just dropping the show. USM lacks depth, drama and personality. The 4th wall jokes breaking need to go. IT is trying to be funny in moments we dont need it to be funny. The cutaway gags are just horrible and need to go. I would have preferred a solo spidey show where he occasionally teams up with the other heroes, rather than have him in a teen avengers team from the get go."
You can read more negative comments about Ultimate Spider-man by visiting the showrunners facebook pages below:
Jeph Loeb Facebook page
Man of Action facebook page
Michael Bendis Facebook page
Whether these comments are deserved or not is a matter of personal opinion. However i do agree that this show is quite bad, and even though it is geared towards kids, i have seen better shows with the same target audience. And as someone who grew up on kids show the like of Batman Tas, X-men tas, Spider-man tas and other excellent shows, i can tell Marvel that you can have shows that both kids and their parents can enjoy, like the,
soon to be cancelled, Avengers Erath's Mightiest Heroes.
You can read my
review of the latest episode of Ultimate Spider-man here
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