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.

Production

The episode was written by Brian Michael Bendis. 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, David W. Barr, Mike Draghi, Ryan Johnston, Glenn Oyabe and Joseph Tsai. The visual effects were by George Rizkallah and Brad Strickman. Animation was done by Justin Copeland, Walter Gatus and Brad Strickman.
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.

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.