The new animated series based on everyone’s favorite wall-crawling hero is hitting Disney+ this week, with the arrival of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man from Marvel Animation. This new show is a fresh take on the earliest days of Peter Parker’s superhero career, when he was just a freshman in high school. Now, Disney+ has revealed the episode release schedule for season one of the show, and it’s a bit wonky. The show won’t do a traditional “one episode per week” drop like X-Men ’97, but it won’t be an every single day drop like the final seasons of What If…? were. Below, you can see how it’s going to go down:
So, the first week we get the first two episodes of the show, titled “Amazing Fantasy” and “The Parker Luck.” The name “Amazing Fantasy” is an homage to the comic Amazing Fantasy #15. That’s the issue where Stan Lee and Steve Ditko debuted Spider-Man way back in 1962. A two-episode drop for the first day is not so odd really, as lots of streaming shows do that nowadays. But then the next two weeks drop three episodes each, with the final two episodes streaming on the finale week. So the whole series will play out over a month in this fashion. Yes, it’s unorthodox, but we’re into it.
Marvel Studios originally announced Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man way back in November 2021, as Spider-Man: Freshman Year. The original intent was to cover the events of Peter Parker’s earliest days as Spider-Man, before Captain America: Civil War. But ultimately, the powers that be moved the series out of the Sacred Timeline, into its own reality. To the show’s creative team, the confines of the preexisting MCU history were too constricting. Although there are many similar elements to the MCU, it’s definitely its own thing. And we’re very eager to see how life unfolds for this version of Peter Parker.
