Spawn has recreated the world, but it's not exactly the way it's supposed to be. Everything old is new again! With bonus behind-the-scenes extras fans can see the making of Spawn from thumbnail to final color. And the eight-page Christmas Spawn story from the Image Holiday Special.
Yeah. 4 stars for SPAWN? Are you for real? You hated it for the last 100+ issues. I know. I know. I'm shocked too.
This was really good. I'm so into the story that's unravelling after Armageddon. Creepy dark stuff with a dose of dark twisted humour.
After the end of the world, Spawn's body is.. well.. manifested by bugs and shit. And all Al wants is to be treated like Hulk. Leave him alone. But that can't happen can it? Twitch is going to find him and tell him about strange things happening to a building.
Now, all them "strange" things happening in this building are a bunch of suicides, creepy tortures, murders and a LOT of cockroaches roaming around the building.
Behind all of this? A demon. If you were reading Spawn for awhile, you'll know who he is once you see him, a revamp of course but yeah, that's him.
Great story. Good artwork. And what I REALLY liked? The title is finally getting better and better.
Continuing on the heels of Armageddon, David Hine’s Spawn run continues to slap. This one is less biblical epic adventure and more straight up grotesque horror. Brian Haberlin adds some truly frightening and fucked up pencilwork to the mix, and the result is a pretty horrific collection of awful events. It’s hard to believe that a title that started off so corny has gotten to badass. Definitely a good jumping on point for people who want the good Spawn stuff.
This stupid thing happens whenever I read a comic book with gothy, wiccan, magic witch goth girls in it, which is that it makes me decide that maybe I could be goth- like maybe the reason it didn't work in high school (or, come to think of it, when I was in the goth-punk band) is that I always did a total half-assed job of it. Like in Sandman comics, and now in Spawn, there are always these badass girls in black t-shirts with long fishnet sleeves and lots of eyeliner who make me go, yeah! I could pull that off! Maybe that can be my band's new look! When in reality, pssh. Goth. Scoff!
Also, what happened to about a hundred issues of Spawn? I mean, if you look on the wikipedia page, I guess a lot of stuff, but I've never seen them, or their collections, anywhere. I think they might only exist on wikipedia. I'd love to read them, though, 'cause I guess there's an armageddon, and somebody kills god and the devil, and lots of other rad things happen.
Anyway, I guess this is Spawn reborn as a horror comic, instead of a superhero comic, which I am into. Horror rules, especially if it's kind of hokey and stupid, which this one is. Mostly. I don't know. Thumbs up! I want to read more Spawn comics!
There's just not that much happening in this volume to tell anything. I got the background story but then what followed was only a promise of the story to come and maybe it was just me but it wasn't all that gruesome.
After the Armageddon craziness, everyone is settling into this new reality. They soon realize this world without angels and demons still has plenty of monsters as tenants in this apartment building keep going crazy and murdering people. Good stuff. Something of a Vertigo take on Spawn.
I'm not normally a fan of Spawn, and I only got this because:
1. There was a sale. 2. David Hines is writing it. 3. Todd Mcfarlane is not illustrating it.
Reading the story-so-far bit at the beginning immediately prejudiced me. The entire premise--casting God and Satan as squabbling children of an androgynous entity--seemed ludicrous to me, and not in a good way. Well, I read it anyway; took me a while as I wasn't particularly motivated to turn the page and my final conclusion is, that the story and art were just so-so.