

Do you have an ATM machine? Preferably not chained to the wall? Nothing. JASON SCHWARTZMAN: (As The Spot) Excuse me. And yet there's a new wrinkle - a faceless guy in white with black holes all over him robbing a convenience store. MONDELLO: Not sure if Spidey's is the most started, restarted and possibly jumpstarted superhero saga ever, but with eight live-action features starring three different Peter Parkers and now two gorgeously animated "Spider-Verses" starring Shameik Moore's Miles, it has to be up there. SHAMEIK MOORE: (As Miles Morales) My name's Miles Morales. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE") Critic Bob Mondello says happily, "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" exceeds expectations.īOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Here we go again, again. But a box office take of almost $400 million and the film's winning the Oscar for best animated feature have set the bar a whole lot higher for the sequel. When the animated story of an Afro-Latino superhero, "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse," was released in 2018, few observers expected it to become the hit - to be the hit it became. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series, and The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls.

But this is a core question I hope we hear an answer to sooner rather than later.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. There’s too much potential in letting Insomniac create a playable Venom, especially when so much work has already been done on Peter and Miles at baseline.Īgain, all we have is this teaser to go on, and with the game not arriving until 2023, it will probably be a while until we hear from it again. It really just doesn’t seem like they would introduce Venom to make him an antagonist and nothing else.

And as a friend of Peter, that would lend even more credence to the idea of him at least trying to be on Spider-Man’s side, though I’m sure at some point, they do fight. So instead of Norman or Harry turning into some sort of colorful flying goblin this time around, it seems like Harry may be our Venom. The tease we were shown in the end credits of Spider-Man was that Norman Osborn appeared to be trying to use the symbiote to save his son Harry’s life. Insomniac’s Spider-Man may handle Venom differently than the comics, where most famously, the symbiote infested Eddie Brock. Venom has also been on something of a “hero kick” lately, and Sony may have a desire to keep pitching him as an anti-hero rather than an antagonist, as we’ve seen across two Venom movies now, with the second nearly here.
