The first two episodes of a brand new Spider-Man story, the animated Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, dropped on Disney+ this week and received rave reviews. Set in an alternate universe, this series from executive producer and writer Jeff Trammell comes up with new ways to tell a familiar story – tweaking the MCU origin that was given to Tom Holland but holding on to important cornerstones of the Peter Parker mythology (like Uncle Ben,

When Jeff Trammell landed the job of creating Marvel Studios' animated series "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" (premiering today), he stepped into the most fertile creative period for the web-slinging superhero in his 63-year history.

But the most similar origin story to the one shown in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is actually that of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, where he’s bitten by a spider from a different dimension.

The premiere episode of Marvel's animated Spider-Man show pinballs between being an MCU cover band and doing its own thing.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man already delivers a very different take on Peter Parker than anything that has been seen in the MCU to date.

Man" episode 1, "Amazing Fantasy." "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" faces the unenviable task of once again explaining how Spider-Man (voiced here by Hudson Thames) came to be. The webslinger's tragic origin has been revisited roughly as often as Batman's,