When Jeff Trammell landed the job of creating Marvel Studios' animated series "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" (premiering today), he stepped into the most fertile creative period for the web-slinging superhero in his 63-year history.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man doesn’t spin the same old origin story. Marvel Studios’ first Spider-Man animated series was conceived as a prequel to the live-action films starring Tom Holland,

“Amazing Fantasy” shows a handful of new characters that have not yet been given the spotlight. One of those is Peter’s best friend Nico Minoru (Grace Song), who is far different from Ned Leeds and Harry Osborn. She seems like the complete opposite of someone who would be friends with Peter.

(Fourth from Left-R) Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Hudson Thames) and Harry Osborn (Zeno Robinson) in Marvel Animation’s YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Animation. © 2024 MARVEL. All Rights Reserved.

Man’s placement in the endless web known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt said something happens in the new Disney+ show that branches it off from the traditional timeline Tom Holland’s Spider-Man occupies.

The first two episodes of a brand new Spider-Man story, the animated Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, dropped on Disney+ this week and received rave reviews. Set in an alternate universe, this series from executive producer and writer Jeff Trammell comes up with new ways to tell a familiar story – tweaking the MCU origin that was given to Tom Holland but holding on to important cornerstones of the Peter Parker mythology (like Uncle Ben,