Spider-man Animated Series (1994)

There have been many iterations of the Spider-man cartoon, but the classic 1994 cartoon was my first foray into the world of the web-head.  When I was young, this cartoon introduced me to the wise-crackin' web-slinger.  I used to watch this show every day, and couldn't for the life of me remember what happened in the show even a week later.  That being said, the Slash guitar intro still sends me spinning into a pool of after school memories.

I revisited the show a few months back and found that it didn't really hold up as well as I hoped it would. The voice acting is incredibly overdone, which makes you feel like you're watching a soap opera adapted for an Off-Broadway play.  The show also suffered from the same heavy censors that took  the edge off of the old X-men cartoon from the 90s as well.  Like a lot of the old cartoons, Spider-man lived in a world of lame fighting scenes and weird out-of-place laser guns.

Oddly enough, I still quite enjoyed living in the nostalgia of the cheesy cartoon.  The most redeeming quality of the show still stands, and that is introducing me to the world of Spider-man and his villains.  The show took some liberties from the comics, but overall did a decent job at capturing the essence of all the characters involved.  This allowed me to seamlessly join the ranks of comic readers everywhere with the Amazing Spider-man almost two decades later.