With Marvel Studios, you have to be wary of a little less “bankable” projects. Finally, it is through them that good surprises arrive. Who would have bet one euro on the success of Galaxy goalkeepers When they left, Marvel characters completely unknown to the general public? On that of Wanda Vision in 2021 or recentlyAgatha All Along ? Not many people.
Available this Wednesday on Disney + With these first two episodes, Your faithful servant Spider-Man Do not really box in the same category as the other Marvel productions expected this year (Captain America : Brave New World, Daredevil Born Again, Thunderbolts, The Fantastic Four). Waiting level and buzz level gets along. It must be said that his first trailer had something to divide, with a voluntarily retro graphic approach, to paste as much as possible with comic boards drawn and thought at the time of the comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man of Stan Lee et Steve Ditko. Especially since this same trailer revealed us an animation seeming to miss punch, a really childish tone and poor decorations, CGI or not, with a fairly any rendering.
Reading a comics in 2025 on your TV is possible
A year after the excellent X-Men 97the comparison was likely to be salty. We will not be able to advance to you on your feelings when discovering Your faithful servant Spider-Manbut the final result is much better than the few extracts distilled here and there on social networks and in the trailer. From the first minutes, the charm operates. We would even be tempted to write from the first pages, because that is literally that the series makes us think: the impression of watching a comics. Neither more nor less, with a variable comic coverage according to the episodes at the end of the intro generic, which dusts the legendary theme of Spider-Man in a nice rap version in VO, very complicated in VF.
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See you in class!
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— Spider-Man (@SpiderMan) January 24, 2025
The feeling of reading a comic strip is accentuated by the cutting of the image, literally in comics boxes sometimes and the frantic rhythm of certain sequences, as comics know how to do it. It was the promise and commitment of the studio, which had done the same, in another register, of course, for the revival of the animated series X-Men: Resume the codes and the atmosphere of the time, by modernizing everything for the new generation.
What if, when you hold us
If the mixture 3D and Cel-Shading Missing a doubtful result, it is not in reality, just like the decorations that we imagined desperately empty. We are not telling you that on the contrary, the image is overloaded at all costs but Your faithful servant Spider-Man presents itself as a colorful animated series and sufficiently detailed to have its share of Easter-Eggs to flush out … just like in a comics, again. But we’ll talk about it a little later.
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This first season (a second has already been ordered) places us in front of a sacred script choice, not so surprising, taking into account the multi -service issues currently underway within the MCU. In Your faithful servant Spider-Man, Peter Parker n’a plus pour mentor Tony Stark aka Iron Man mais Norman Osborn. The man supposed, in the original frame, to become the Green Bouffon, one of the worst enemies of the weaver. The series perpetuates here the principle of “and if”, developed on three seasons in What If, except that this time, the prospect of an alternative origins of Spider-Man is total.
The MCU as a rear base all the same
Because it is not only this aspect that changes in the life of Peter: even if elements remain faithful to the character introduced into the MCU, like the death already acted of uncle Ben and the youth of Aunt May, others are different, such as the origin of his powers, which is no longer linked to the bite of a radioactive spider But from that of a colleague from another world and fell into hers during a fight between a bellicose symbiote and Doctor Strange. Ned and MJ (Michelle Jones) do not exist, Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy either, place to Pearl, Lincoln Lincoln and Lonnie Minoru. The last two are as much linked to Spider-Man as to Marvel publications, in particular the last, member of Runaways.
Meet Nico Minoru.
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— Spider-Man (@SpiderMan) January 24, 2025
Here the Doctor Connors Always has one arm less, but is no longer embodied by a man. Harry Osborn is black, bears braids and is a star of social networks in a world still shaken by the events of Captain America : Civil War, Tensions around the Sokovie agreements and the dissolution of the Avengers, with a missing Captain America and an Iron Man in the services of General Thaddeus Ross. This is the mixture chosen by the creative teams gathered around the project: associating this alternative universe of the tangible elements of the MCU while revisiting the origins and the first steps of Spider-Man as superhero.
References to the Lore of Spider-Man as a whole
In this story, Peter did not take part in the legendary combat of the airport since he did not know Tony StarkFor example. And on the other, we can feel that this series has for specifications, too, to “teaser” the future Marvel projects to come: Thaddeus Ross Present, nothing trivial a few weeks before the release of the next film Captain Americajust like Daredeviljust over a month of his return to series. We can also cite the first “real” Peter costume in the series, a white outfit made by Oscorp and which very much recalls that carried by our hero in the arc Future foundationin which Peter replaces Johnny Storm within the 4 Fantastic. Characters, they, expected next July at the cinema.
References, there are therefore in a mess. As well as fan service. We are not going to spoil the content of the series but know that the teams have thought of everything: signature sound themes – already heard – for some characters during their introduction, references to films or more subtle winks Also, to sometimes recall the change of project around this series announced in 2021. Basically, it must have been canon at MCU, while exploring the first steps of Peter Parker Tom Holland, before a turnaround on the part of Creative teams and a name change (originally, the series was called Spider-Man Freshman Year, editor’s note). Finally, be aware that … Disney parks are also part. We let you guess how.
A very intense second of the season
The goal of the maneuver is simple finally: by mixing all these Easter Eggs, from several different supports (comics, animated series, MCU), your faithful Spider-Man seeks to satisfy everyone, while fraying his own way And by writing its own version of the adventures of the spider. If these take time to set up, it is because this season 1 introduces a plethora of characters. Much like the 1994 animated series had done, which had offered an exhibition window to little -known bad guys. Whether secondary or not, the idea is to offer them a potential to develop and it is ultimately in the second part of the plot, which places the basics of the suite.
What are the real motivations of Norman Osborn ? Can Peter really trust him? Are the bad guys really those we believe? For what Otto Octavius Does he spend his time equipping the local underworld with his own inventions? Are the hero’s relatives really what they show us? In Your faithful servant Spider-Maneveryone has something to hide and the series experiences a real turn in his half, when Peter undergoes a stinging and traumatic defeat. As in comics, our hero can bleed, suffer and lose. Very violent even.
There goes the Spider-Man.
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— Spider-Man (@SpiderMan) January 25, 2025
Presenting itself in the calendar of Marvel Studios productions as an aperitif before the big buffet, Your faithful servant Spider-Man deserves better consideration and all your attention ultimately. Magic once again operates at Marvel Animationnot to the point of equaling the colossal work accomplished on X-Men 97 A year ago, certainly, but enough to offer a new quality creation. And we can say it after devouring the 10 episodes in their entirety: strongly the continuation!
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