User blog:ARTaylor/Spider-Man Reunion

In just seventeen days will be the twentieth anniversary of "Night of the Lizard", the series premiere of Spider-Man and the second longest running animated series based on Marvel Comics. Story editor and producer John Semper, Jr. got together the cast of the five season series for a reunion panel Saturday at Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo to discuss the series. The panel showed a sizzle reel of some of the actors' best work. Some had not seen the work since it aird, including Sara Ballantine who cried during a clip of "The Return of Hydro-Man, Part Two" when Mary Jane Watson's clone died. Other actors included Christopher Daniel Barnes (Spider-Man), Jennifer Hale (Black Cat), Gary Imhoff (Harry Osborn), Rodney Saulsberry (Joseph Robertson), Gregg Berger (Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter), and Patrick Labyorteaux (Flash Thompson). Even Edward Asner (J. Jonah Jameson) pre-taped a video message as the newspaper editor wondering why anyone would waste time on the wallcrawling menace when he wants to be at the webslinger's funeral. Semper had previously avoided talking about the series, but revealed he would honor its memory this coming year.

Additionally, Semper revealed that the cast had agreed to reunite for an upcoming project they plan to finance via crowdfunding. The upcoming animated project is currently titled rocket Men and is a tribute to retro-pulp style of stories like the film The Rocketeer.

Semper will be posting updates on his Facebook page and on his website in addition to a series of planned podcasts.