Hello and welcome to Bill vs the MCU! Each month your hosts Pop Break Podcasting Director Alex Marcus and Pop Break Editor in Chief Bill Bodkin are taking another step into the wider Marvel Multiverse as the MCU dives deeper into their Multiverse Saga.
Bill & Alex spent all of 2022 rewatching the first four phases of the MCU, and, in the years since, they have covered the first four seasons of Agents of SHIELD, the entire Netflix Defenders Saga, Fox’s X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Daredevil films, the Blade trilogy, a few Punisher films, Ang Lee’s Hulk, and, most recently, Marvel’s Modern Animation line up of shows.
This month, Alex & Bill are celebrating Valentine’s Day (they’re late by a week or so, but we still love them) by covering the most romantic Spider-Man franchise: The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the two films Sony made because they contractually had to make…something.
These films star Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and a wildly overqualified cast of supporting players (including Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Denis Leary and Rhys Ifans). They get into how these films came into being, what about them works better than you might remember, what about them is even worse than you thought was possible, and what Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe that almost was might have looked like before they fired Garfield and kicked the franchise’s creative direction over the Marvel Studios for a second reboot in under a decade.
They also give early thoughts on Wonder Man and the latest trailer for Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, both of which the pod will cover in their July 2026 episode.
Come back next month for part three of Podding the Spider-Verse with reviews of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), now streaming on Netflix, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), now streaming on Disney Plus!
