"SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN" DEBUTS AT WONDERCON- Hundreds of fans, with their kids in tow, attended the premiere of the new animated series “The Spectacular Spider-Man” at WonderCon in San Francisco on Saturday, a full two weeks before it's set to air on Kids' WB! on The CW network. Following the screening, Sony Pictures Television’s Michael Vogel moderated a discussion that included supervising producer Greg Wiseman, supervising director Victor Cook, character designer Sean “Cheeks” Galloway, voice actors Josh Keaton (Spider-man/Peter Parker) and Ben Diskin (Eddie Brock). The panelists discussed the pleasures of bringing the Spider-Man characters back to television and their hopes for the series.
Set sometime after the spider bite that gave Peter Parker his powers and the death of his uncle -- which gave him his purpose-- the TV series places Spider-Man at the start of his junior year in high school. There he is pushed around by jocks, but has friends in the form of Harry Osborne and Gwen Stacy. While Harry is played in a fashion similar to his feature film counterpart, Stacy is conceived as Peter’s intellectual equal. In fact, both receive an internship at the local university, working for Professor Connors. There they find Eddie Brock, a friend who graduated from their high school the previous year. Peter hopes the internship will help him make some money to help out Aunt May -- until Eddie tells him the job pays nothing.
Sounds a lot like "Ultimate Spiderman" to me.
