Avengers Along Came a Spider Review

Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes Episode 39 was titled Along Came a Spider. Captain America is still feeling the affects of the Skrull Invasion and the damage to his reputation. He teams up with Spider-Man to protect a group of civilians trapped under ground from the Serpent Society. Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes Episode 39 Along Came a Spider first aired in Australia on June 6th 2012.

Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes Episode 39 Along Came a Spider Review

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Episode Synopsis

A statue of Captain America is trashed due to the actions of his Skrull imposter. Not helping any manners is the yellow journalism of J. Jonah Jameson, who appears to not believe or be unable to believe. He sends Betty Brant and Peter Parker to get an exclusive with Captain America, who are moving Madam Viper and Cobra, but the rest of the Serpent Society attacks.

Peter changes right into Spider-Man and helps fight the society, but some civilians, Spider-Man, Agent Quartermain, and Viper and Cobra all get knocked down to the sewers, to a tunnel that is collapsing. The civilians are not receptive to Spider-Man or Captain America for obvious reasons. Yet, Captain America and Spider-Man work together to get the civilians out. When Spider-Man questions Captain America not defending himself, Captain America says that the truth will always come out and that he knows of Spider-Man's heroics, selfless as they.

The Serpent Society attacks once again, with threatening Captain America and Spider-Man to release Viper or they'll kill the civilians in the tunnel. As heroes, Cap and Spidey take the third option, fighting off the Serpent Society. As the tunnel collapses, Spider-Man holds it up as much as he can, while Captain America defends the civilians against the Serpent Society. This inspires civilians to defend a battered Captain America, with Viper suggesting the Society retreat. Iron Man and Thor save the day before the tunnel can collapse.

A newspaper headline from the Daily Bugle, describes how Captain America saved civilians from Spider-Man and the Serpent Society. Captain America assures Spider-Man that the truth will come out and Spidey says that he is going web Jonah's mouth shut which Cap has no problem.

Episode Review

I suppose I better get the elephant in the room out of the way first. The original voice of Spider-Man was Josh Keaton who voiced our web slinging hero in the constantly awesome Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon. He was dubbed over by the voice of Drake Bell, the Spider-Man in the not so awesome and quite frankly hit and miss Ultimate Spider-Man show.

Now with that being said, this is the best Bell has ever sounded as Spider-Man but obviously given his lines were dubbed, this entire episode had a disconnect with it. I got all of the fan boy rage out of my system regarding this episode before I watched it.

Now the episode itself was rather decent all things considered, but given this being Spider-Man's first guest appearance outside of his own cartoons in Marvel Animation since the 1970s, this likely should have been something special. Instead it was something decent, fun in places, but not great, awesome, knock off your socks, rock, rock, party until you can't stop awesome.

And again, see above for the obvious reason why. I have a feeling that there is going to be a decline. The Jeph Loeb era of Marvel Animation will be looked upon as one of the worst eras of the franchise, but the late 1990s weren't that good as well, after X-Men and Spider-Man closed the books on their respective animated series.

I did think that the writers of this show got the very essence of Spider-Man. Which is more than I can say for a certain other show. There was a good story with Captain America never breaking, never straying from his cause. And Spider-Man fanboying out over Captain America a couple of times.

Quartermain's line about what was wrong with Spider-Man's voice was funny for obvious reasons.

Just yeah, not a bad episode, but not a great one. Everyone was true to character, but the previous episodes really blue this one out of the water.

Final Thoughts and Rating

7/10, the average rating. Maybe it would have been an 8 or an 8.5 if they had kept the episode in tact as it was meant to be. You can watch Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes Episode 39 Along Came a Spider legally in the United States on Disney XD in July.