Marvel’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premieres this Wednesday after years of development and months of hype…well, a couple months. They never really let us look at this show until a few weeks before its launch, but it looks promising.
Disney+ has released one last trailer for the series, showing some new clips that reveal the look of additional characters like Scorpion, Doctor Octopus and Daredevil — who, by the way, is voiced by his live-action counterpart Charlie Cox, yet is a completely different version of the character.
For you see, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man occurs in its own neighborhood…a reality completely divorced from the MCU at large (or the Sony-verse for that matter — it’s never Morbin’ Time around here). That allows for some creative decisions that take both the narrative and the visuals in new directions.
“One era that this series is gonna explore,” says executive producer Brad Winderbaum in the video, “is the sixties aesthetic that Steve Ditko put on the page so well.” The cel-shaded style mimics the Silver Age art pretty competently, but then you have Nico Minoru, who wasn’t invented until forty years after those comics came out. She definitely wasn’t one of Spidey’s original pals, yet if you ever wanted to know what she would’ve looked like in the Ditko style, here you are.
My hope that Nico won’t lose her “gifts” in this version is boosted in this trailer by the appearance of Doctor Strange, a literal magician. If he can show up and do his thing, in theory she should be able to as well, right? A brief shot of a newscast also reveals that Captain America, Black Widow and Ant-Man already exist in this canon (and, probably, The Avengers as a whole).
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man stars the voices of Hudson Thames (What If…?) as Peter/Spidey, Colman Domingo (Euphoria) as Norman Osborn, Eugene Byrd (Bones) as Lonnie Lincoln, Grace Song (Kidding) as Nico Minoru, Zeno Robinson (Transformers: Earthspark) as Harry Osborn, Hugh Dancy (Law & Order) as Otto Octavius and Charlie Cox (Daredevil: Born Again) as Daredevil — yes, he reprises the role here. The show launches on Disney+ January 29.