'The Golden Rhino'.
The Rhino is back, and he's busy stealing large amounts of gold in order to create a life-sized gold statue of himself. (As Spidey says, he *does* have a king-sized ego.) I'm again impressed with the snappiness of these brief segments during the first season; things happen quickly, and Spidey determinedly pursues his foes despite the danger. Best of all is when The Rhino crates a ruckus on Fulton Street to bring Spider-man running; when Spidey throws a fish at his feet, and the villain takes a massive spill, it's an entirely obvious but wonderfully ridiculous gag.
'Blueprint for Crime'.
The Plotter (voice of Gillie Fenwick), a diminutive, bald master criminal, and his hilarious odd-couple henchmen, Montana and The Ox (voices of Bernard Cowan and Paul Soles), aim to steal blueprints for a missile and sell the ill-gotten gains to any foreign power that will pony up the most dough. This segment is downright HYSTERICAL when Montana and The Ox briefly hide out in a beatnik coffee shop, The Blue Radish; the beatnik dialogue just cracks me right up. "Roll your eyes over those crazy pyjamas", one of the dudes says as he looks at Spidey. Spidey even joins in the act before he exits the scene. He does ultimately defeat the bad guys pretty easily, but he has a brainstorm to make them come running for him: pretend to be a criminal himself, as he poses with "the key code blueprint", which was forgotten earlier.
A damn fun pair of stories.
Eight out of 10.
The Rhino is back, and he's busy stealing large amounts of gold in order to create a life-sized gold statue of himself. (As Spidey says, he *does* have a king-sized ego.) I'm again impressed with the snappiness of these brief segments during the first season; things happen quickly, and Spidey determinedly pursues his foes despite the danger. Best of all is when The Rhino crates a ruckus on Fulton Street to bring Spider-man running; when Spidey throws a fish at his feet, and the villain takes a massive spill, it's an entirely obvious but wonderfully ridiculous gag.
'Blueprint for Crime'.
The Plotter (voice of Gillie Fenwick), a diminutive, bald master criminal, and his hilarious odd-couple henchmen, Montana and The Ox (voices of Bernard Cowan and Paul Soles), aim to steal blueprints for a missile and sell the ill-gotten gains to any foreign power that will pony up the most dough. This segment is downright HYSTERICAL when Montana and The Ox briefly hide out in a beatnik coffee shop, The Blue Radish; the beatnik dialogue just cracks me right up. "Roll your eyes over those crazy pyjamas", one of the dudes says as he looks at Spidey. Spidey even joins in the act before he exits the scene. He does ultimately defeat the bad guys pretty easily, but he has a brainstorm to make them come running for him: pretend to be a criminal himself, as he poses with "the key code blueprint", which was forgotten earlier.
A damn fun pair of stories.
Eight out of 10.
