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Medieval Spawn Witchblade
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96 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1996
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About the author
Garth Ennis
2,623 books3,174 followersEnnis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
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January 31, 2022
This one-shot prologue mini-series to Brandon
Katarina is a mash-up between Eowyn, Red Sonja and many other Ladies of Fantasy with the Witchblade as the One Ring,
And Lord Cardinale, the Medieval Darkness, is just the ultimate hysterical farcical fantasy villain ever.
Far better than I used to remember (I laughed so much that I rised my previous ☆☆☆☆ review to full ☆☆☆☆☆), and so funny that I could read and re-read it every day.
A must read if you are a fan of Ennis, Spawn, Witchblade, humoristic fantasy and 90s comics.
January 31, 2022
I read this years ago and had forgotten this was a prequel to the "Arcanum" series by Brandon Peterson. In any case, the Peterson art is nice and the Witchblade looks as sexy as ever. The series definitely seems more like a prequel than a standalone series, but it was still good.
Medieval Spawn and a holder of the Witchblade in Medieval times team up to stop servants of the Darkness from destroying the land of Faerie. They succeed..sort of. Then things continue on into the "Arcanum" series.
Not bad, but really didn't seem to be quite up to Garth Ennis standards. For whatever reason, even when great comic creators wrote stories for Image in the 90s the never seemed to be as good as non Image stuff. Could just be me?
Medieval Spawn and a holder of the Witchblade in Medieval times team up to stop servants of the Darkness from destroying the land of Faerie. They succeed..sort of. Then things continue on into the "Arcanum" series.
Not bad, but really didn't seem to be quite up to Garth Ennis standards. For whatever reason, even when great comic creators wrote stories for Image in the 90s the never seemed to be as good as non Image stuff. Could just be me?
August 10, 2018
Hey, it's a completely forgotten about, totally 90s x-over title! I had fond memories of reading this as it came out in the mid 90s, reading it again for the first time since, and it is definitely one of the worst comic works to come from Garth Ennis at what was otherwise the creative peak of his career. It's also a bad Spawn story (the main title never had the strongest plot), but probably average for a Witchblade comic.
May 27, 2022
Everything fits the standard, boring fantasy setting except Stalker the crossbowman and former pub owner. He is by far the funniest character. Sexist, opportunistic and skilled with a crossbow. Too bad he gets such a small part in this by-the-numbers 90's style slugfest. The writer clearly tried to make it original, but didn't manage a great deal.
Matthew Royale is a wizard who manipulates Lord Cardinale, the wielder of the Darkness during the Middle Ages, to attack the land of Faerie. Their goal is to steal magic to fortify Cardinale's troops against the sun. The attack draws the Hellspawn into the fray.
Meanwhile a down on her luck Katarina, the hot AF, alcoholic amazon swordswoman, has to shovel manure to cover her tab. Everything changes when the Witchblade merges with her. She and Spawn defeat a band of orcs and head straight for Faerie and a merry adventure.
Matthew Royale is a wizard who manipulates Lord Cardinale, the wielder of the Darkness during the Middle Ages, to attack the land of Faerie. Their goal is to steal magic to fortify Cardinale's troops against the sun. The attack draws the Hellspawn into the fray.
Meanwhile a down on her luck Katarina, the hot AF, alcoholic amazon swordswoman, has to shovel manure to cover her tab. Everything changes when the Witchblade merges with her. She and Spawn defeat a band of orcs and head straight for Faerie and a merry adventure.
August 6, 2012
What is not too like Spawn and the Withcblade in one great early tale in the Spawn history.
March 20, 2018
Ah, os crossovers! Só eles tem aquela prerrogativa da banalidade e das lutas entre heróis sem motivo nenhum. Só eles tem a prerrogativa de serem uma bela porcaria, mas a gente ter salvo conduto para atravessar esse terreno pantanoso e depois dizer que foi apenas um "guilty pleasure". Na verdade, por mais que esse gibi tenha sido escrito por Garth Ennis - sim, o cara do Preacher -, isso não adiciona patavinas na história, sendo essa mais um daqueles trabalhos que o escocês faz só pela grana. O que é legal mesmo nesse quadrinho são os desenhos de Brandon Peterson - quando ainda desenhava no suporte físico e as cores bem estilão Image Comics em seu auge (!) (?). Esse é o quadrinho ruim que tenho orgulho de ler, porque, afinal, não tem nenhuma surpresa ali. Você chega nesse quadrinho com a certeza de que vai ser uma baita bom. Ruim, mas honesto, diferente de outras coisas que você chega com tanta sede ao pote que acaba quebrando a mandíbula. Pois, pois...
October 23, 2019
From the opening panels of Medieval Spawn & Witchblade (two Image characters), one can observe that writer Garth Ennis is summoning inspiration from the film "Seven" with heads in a severed box that he proceeds to joke about. The action moves to the medieval time (1100s) and featuring the land of Faerie and a bunch of sorcery stuff with Ennis humor. Just OK and could have done without all the rape jokes.
January 23, 2014
Creo que lo leí de prestado en la edición mexicana de Vid que me prestó Esteban hace mil, así que marco la española por aproximación. En ese momento todavía no ubicaba bien a Ennis, pero visto en retrospectiva diría que es uno de los comics más aburridos que le he leído.
September 12, 2011
Suoraviivaista väkivaltaviihdettä välillä sekavin, välillä hienoin kuvin. Mutta komeaa katseltavaa oli tällä kertaa tietokoneväritys, tällä kertaa.
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