Episode 23: The Phantom Menace (Ultimate End #5; Listener Feedback)
(Recorded December 20, 2015) Brian, Kyle, and Nour see the year out with Ultimate End #5. Last one out, get the lights. 0:00 – Intros: The highly anticipated event is finally
Before he was the lead character in the Oscar-winning film Into The Spider-Verse and a bestselling video game, Miles Morales quietly occupied what was a small storytelling corner known as Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, where he was introduced in 2011.
Marvel relaunched the series as Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man in 2014, along with a boldly different (and much darker) title about his team, entitled All-New Ultimates. This inspired the creation of Ultimate Spin, a podcast dedicated to looking at a different strand of Spider-Man’s web, following Miles as heir to the mantle of great power and responsibility following the death of Peter Parker in Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man series.
When All-New Ultimates wrapped up in early 2015, Ultimate Spin expanded to look at another alternate Spider-character: Gwen Stacy of Earth-65, aka Spider-Gwen! Gwen’s original run of adventures was fun, unpredictable (!), and offered thought-provoking takes on the classic themes of great power and great responsibility, powered by incredible art and intense colors.
Ultimate Spin ran for one hundred episodes between 2014 and 2018, wrapping up just as Miles and Gwen were poised to break through to the mainstream via the big screen (little did we know just how huge that movie would be!). The podcast featured an international group of Spider-Man fans reviewing and discussing the Miles and Gwen comics, as well as in-depth interviews with the creators that brought the characters and their stories to life.
Whether you’ve been following Miles and Gwen since the very beginning or are curious to check out their origins, Ultimate Spin is your podcast companion to their early adventures.
(Recorded December 20, 2015) Brian, Kyle, and Nour see the year out with Ultimate End #5. Last one out, get the lights. 0:00 – Intros: The highly anticipated event is finally
(Recorded December 13, 2015) Kyle, Nour, and Brian do battle with their new show format (and the English language) to catch up with a dimension-hopping Gwen and her latest threat
(Recorded November 16, 2015) A special “point one” episode where we got to talk with IVAN KANDER, the writer-director responsible for the incredible fan-film Spider-Man Lives: A Miles Morales Story (as mentioned
(Recorded November 15, 2015) With Kyle away at Thought Bubble, Brian and Nour mess with the show format, catch up on recent news (GANKE LIVES!), discuss the new hero in
(Recorded October 17, 2015) We’re back! Brian, Kyle, and Nour review upcoming books for both Miles and Gwen and discuss the first issue of the new Radioactive Spider-Gwen series (and attempt a live
(Recorded October 1, 2015) While we wait for Spider-Gwen to return (and *any* news about Miles!), Kyle and Nour catch up on recent developments including (the lack of) Secret Wars
(Recorded August 15, 2015) In this episode, we’re joined by Superior Spider-Talk‘s Dan Gvozden as we take one step closer toward the end of Ultimate End and look back at a
(Recorded July 11, 2015) A special “point one” episode where we got to talk with ROBBI RODRIGUEZ, the co-creator of Spider-Gwen! It flew by quickly for us, but we covered a
(Recorded July 4, 2015) In this episode, we take a look at the teasers for the All-New All-Different Spider gang and brave the mess that is Ultimate End. 0:00 – Intro
(Recorded June 21, 2015) In this listener request episode, we take a break from the Secret Wars and get to know Cindy Moon, aka Silk! Plus, we talk about the