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What does it mean for a film review if the film critic was asleep for more than a third of the film's running time and then, upon waking up, texted his or her spouse to ask where all these Spider-people came from? We ponder this question, and more, in this week's pod, like what exactly this movie is saying about the Spider-Man canon, its animation style, where to next for the Spider-Man at the movies given the inexplicable success of "Venom",j and the quiet wokeness of the Miles Morales story.