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Tombstone
Episode #36 - Tombstone Robbie Robertson is losing his son, Randy, to a gang of thugs lead by Tombstone. When this harder-than-stone hit man tries to use his history with Robbie to kill a story about his new boss, Alicia Silvermane, he runs afoul of Spider-Man. Both discover Robbie's bond with his child and his ethical resolve is mightier. Review: The first thing that is noticeable is that this episode uses an extraordinary amount of repeated animation, most of which only serves to confuse the viewers. A good example would be when Spider-Man is scaling a wall, then is crawling along a pipe in the sewer, then is seen scaling the wall again. The animation and music took a dip in quality from the previous episode. In actual fact, the animation in most episodes wasn’t too bad, but it was so awfully put together, it didn’t really make a difference. It’s incredibly distracting to see Spider-Man swing fast, using first season animation, then at a snail like pace with season two animation, and season three animation mixed somewhere in between. The constantly changing colours and light sources didn’t work in the shows favour either. The story of the episode is a very good, and spotlighted Robbie Robertson, who was always seen as the opposite of J. Jonah Jameson. It also told us of his connection with Tombstone, who was a hit man for Silvermaine in a previous episode, and was in need of some good development. Aside from how incredibly annoying Randy Robertson was, and how Madame Web had to save the day again, this episode served it’s purpose. Multi part stories are fun but it’s nice to just sit back for 20 minutes and enjoy a good old-fashioned superhero cartoon. Screenshots:
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