Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, or The Third Greatest Animated Film Ever Made

... according to Letterboxd, anyway, but your pals at Marvelous! aren't quite so sanguine. From Phil Lord's tyrannical rule of production to the tedium of infinite Spiders-Men and the so-facile-it-might-be-accidental queer representation — we dig into all the things that keep this (sometimes good) film from achieving the greatness its reputation implies. 

For this episode we relied especially on the following articles:

• Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’ by Chris Lee
• Get Real! Relatability on Demand by Matt Purets, Alisha Hines, and Yalda T. Uhls
• Laborious Aesthetics: Visible and Invisible Labor in the Spider-Verse franchise by Jordan Schonig

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