For Your Eye Only

"For Your Eye Only" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, the episode is both a parody of classic James Bond films and a loose adaptation of Jim Steranko's 60s storyline "Who is Scorpio?" from the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. comic.[1][2][3][4][5]

Not to be confused with For Your Eyes Only.
"For Your Eye Only"
Ultimate Spider-Man episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 15
Directed by
  • Jeff Allen
  • Alex Soto
Written byBrian Michael Bendis
Story byJim Steranko
Produced by
  • Brian Michael Bendis
  • Dana C. Booton
  • Dan Buckley
  • Joe Casey
  • Alan Fine
  • Joe Kelly
  • Cort Lane
  • Stan Lee
  • Jeph Loeb
  • Joe Quesada
  • Eric Radomski
  • Duncan Rouleau
  • Steven T. Seagle
  • Harrison Wilcox
Featured musicKevin Manthei
Editing byJonathan Polk
Production codeMan of Action
Original air dateJuly 22, 2012

Production

The episode was written by Brian Michael Bendis.[6] The art-design was handled by Micah Gunnell, Tom Morgan, Shaun O'Neil, Andy Thom and Eric Wight who are mainly storyboardists. The episode's sound was controlled by Jesse Aruda[lower-alpha 1] (sound designer), David W. Barr (original dialogue mixer), Mike Draghi (re recording mixer and supervising sound editor), Ryan Johnston (assistant engineer), Glenn Oyabe (sound designing) and Joseph Tsai (sound effects editor). The visual effects were by George Rizkallah (post production supervisor and visual effects supervisor) and Brad Strickman (visual effects artist). Animation was done by Justin Copeland (main storyboard artist), Walter Gatus (main character designer) and Brad Strickman (main title animator).

The episode stars Chi McBride as Nick Fury, Drake Bell as Spider-Man and introduces Phil Morris as Max Fury, who was cast by Collette Sunderman who also handled voice directing for the episode. In the comic series so is Nick Fury's brother named Jake Fury, while Max is the name of a Life Model Decoy android copy of Nick Fury.

Plot

After Nick Fury is kidnapped by a figure called Scorpio Spider-Man must save him. Later it is revealed that Scorpio is actually Nick Fury's younger brother Max Fury.[7]

Reception

The reviewer of NewtCave expressed that he thought Phil Morris delivered a solid performance despite what was in his opinion rather stereotypical villain dialogue.[8]

References
  1. Credited as Jesse Arruda

References
  1. Dietsch, T.J. (July 29, 2013). "UNMASKING ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: Revealing Power Man's Origin". Comic Book Resources.
  2. Johnson, Rich (July 20, 2012). "Ultimate Spider-Man Does James Bond". Bleeding Cool.
  3. Sava, Oliver (July 22, 2012). "Ultimate Spider-Man: "For Your Eye Only"". The A.V. Club.
  4. Gray, Richard (July 21, 2012). "ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN PARODIES JAMES BOND IN "FOR YOUR EYE ONLY"". The Reel Bits.
  5. Kilpatrick, Conor (July 22, 2012). "'ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN' – S01E15 – "FOR YOUR EYE ONLY"". IFanboy.
  6. "ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN CARTOON GOES "DIE HARD" WITH BRIAN MICHEAL BENDIS". News. Chicago Comic Vault. July 21, 2012.
  7. Flynn, Caleigh (2012). "'Ultimate Spider-Man: For Your Eye Only' – Recap". Sciencefiction.com.
  8. "Review: Ultimate Spider-Man "For Your Eye Only"". NewtCave. September 3, 2015.
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