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

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.

Since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first created Spider-Man more than six decades ago, the character has been one of the most enduring superheroes in popular culture. From comics to animated series and a slew of live-action films (as well as 2018’s animated,

When you think about the comic book characters who have been most successfully adapted for the screen, Spider-Man has to be at or near the top of the list. Three live-action iterations of the character remain widely beloved by fans,

A fresh Spider-Man reboot can expand audiences with bold new perspectives, but too much reinvention risks losing the core of Peter Parker’s story.

Before the opening credits even roll on Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, we might have a hint toward future Spider-Heroes.

Head writer Jeff Trammell and supervising director Mel Zwyer pay homage to the early comics with a "moving comic" style in CG while introducing a surprising supporting cast.

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,