Gobbledygeek episode 500, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts.

500 episodes! Can you believe it? What incredibly special way will we choose to commemorate this event??? By, well, just having a regular episode discussing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with our good friend Eric Sipple. At one point this past summer, we weren’t sure another episode was ever going to happen, so this seems like a fitting celebration. The boys rave about Across the Spider-Verse’s layered meanings, innovative animation, strong emotion, and how much more fun and exciting the movie is than the comics are these days.

NEXT: who even knows, man.

BREAKDOWN

• 00:00:55  –  Intro / Guest
• 00:07:05  –  Shout out to Levi Williams!
• 00:13:28  –  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• 02:29:18  –  Outro / Next

LINKS

• Superheroes, Miles Morales, and the Fallacy of Hard Choices by Eric Sipple
• The Life of Reilly: In-Depth Analysis of the Spider-Man Clone Saga by Andrew Goletz

MUSIC

• “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers, Sunshine On Leith (1988)
• “Spiderwebs” by No Doubt, Tragic Kingdom (1995)

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