^ That's possible, I noticed that as well but the series is probably in it's own continuity. Didn't they say at comic con (San Diego) that there was a chance that Spider-Man would appear in the series at some point?
No idea, but it makes sense. The reason
The Spectacular Spider-Man was (tragically) cancelled was because Marvel/Disney took the TV rights to Spidey back from Sony in exchange for letting them keep the movie rights. So that means they should be free to use Spidey and all his characters in this show. Though with a new
Ultimate Spider-Man series being developed, I wonder if that would cross over or be in a separate continuity.
It's odd that all the Marvel shows lately seem to be in unconnected realities, given that the Marvel Universe has always been defined by its interconnectedness, and given that the movies are building a shared reality now. I mean, the Marvel cartoons in the '90s had crossovers; the FOX
Spider-Man and
X-Men were overtly in continuity with each other, as were the syndicated
Iron Man and FF and apparently the later syndicated
Hulk as well. Although continuity between the FOX and syndicated shows was ambiguous; Iron Man and War Machine showed up on
Spider-Man voiced by their performers from the syndicated show, but when the FF showed up on S-M, there was only one voice in common with the syndie version. And there was no clear indication of continuity one way or the other (since as the current Marvel shows make clear, shared voices don't mean shared continuity).
I really enjoyed it. Lots of references to Marvel stuff, interesting combination of Nick Furies I thought and they made it work.
Oh, you mean the combination of elements from classic and Ultimate Nick Fury. Took me a moment.
In the Cap flashback micro-episodes, there was a character who looked and sounded like Fury and who led the Howling Commandoes, but Cap called him "Jack" rather than "Nick." So maybe he's Nick Fury's grandfather instead of Nick himself. Is that something from the Ultimate universe, or is it new to this show?
Loved that they have Maria Hill, the scene between Jane Foster and Thor before he gets called to Asgard was really cute.
I have no prior familiarity with the character of Maria Hill. What strikes me is that she's played by Kari Wuhrer.
Let's see, other cast members of interest to me:
Jeffrey Combs as the Leader (he was fantastic here).
Phil LaMarr as Jarvis and Wonder Man.
Mark Hamill as Ulysses Klaw.
Clancy Brown as Odin (and I think he was Crusher Creel in the micro-eps, though Creel is Rick D. Wasserman in the series).
Lance Henriksen as the Grim Reaper.
Steven Blum as the Red Skull.
Also Scott Menville as Bucky -- interesting because he also played Robin on
Teen Titans, meaning he's played both major companies' seminal and iconic teen sidekicks. Plus he did an interesting job, making Bucky a very different character from TT's Robin (though his Bucky characterization would've worked well for a more conventional version of Dick Grayson).
