Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 12

Spawn Origins Collection

by Todd McFarlane (Writer/Illustrator), Brian Holguin (Illustrator), Greg Capullo (Illustrator)

The Freak returns with an agenda of his own and Sam and Twitch are caught in the middle. Will Spawn come to their aid or will his apathy be the end of the detectives? Throw Wolfram the Vampire and the Heap in the mix and who knows what'll happen! Relive the excitement of one of the bestselling independent comics of all time and grow your Spawn: Origins collection! Collects Spawn #69-74.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Fantasy, Ebooks, Superheroes, Comic Book

150 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 11, 2011

About the author

Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book artist, writer, toy manufacturer/designer, and media entrepreneur who is best known as the creator of the epic occult fantasy series Spawn.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. Spawn was one of America's most popular heroes in the 1990's and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties.

In recent years, McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio.

In September, 2006, it was announced that McFarlane will be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, founded by Curt Schilling.

McFarlane used to be co-owner of National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers but sold his shares to Daryl Katz. He's also a high-profile collector of history-making baseballs.

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 3 out of 5]

(B+) 77% | Good
Notes: Strays off its main plot, all rumble and rot, hobos at war, the skinny as well about heaven and hell, it's less of a chore.

*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #69-71 ◦ Issues #72-74

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great artworks and vampire Wolfram was a funny new character, but the meandering storyline is now really boring and Brian Holguin's helping McFarlane with dialogues is not much helping.

[The Wintermute System · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm absolutely loving this. It's definitely stopped circling around the bigger plot lines and is closing in, but slowly, very slowly. Which is okay: there's enough going on here and McFarlane made the world Spawn lives in complex enough, with enough characters, hardships, and joys that it's more than just a heaven vs. hell story.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one was just... ah... awful. Still the same. Al bitching about wanting Wanda back and how could he cuz he's Spawn and why oh why why why? And a bunch of crap like that.

What I really hate is Sam & Twitch. Too much of those two. And they're not interesting, to me, at all. I'd rather read about the homeless people that hang around with Spawn, and I'm pretty sick of them too because I've been reading about them since #1. So you can imagine how irritated I am with Sam and Twitch.

Anyway, the END of this volume though it promises some good things... one can only hope!

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank God that Wynn, Terry and Wanda sit on the back burner throughout this for the most part. I'm so tired of that story going around in circles. It's all about Spawn and the bums of Rat City along with getting slipped a bit of info about the war between heaven and hell. A turf war is brewing between different bum factions. It's never successfully explained what that's about as it is clearly about more than those that support Spawn versus those that don't. We get the return of the Freak, along with introductions of the vampire, Wolfram, and The Heap. I do like how McFarlane is blurring the lines of heaven and hell with vampires working for heaven even though they are still clearly evil.

With this volume, McFarlane has gotten so busy that he brings on a co-writer in Brian Holguin. Showing the need for an editor on these books, their's another Tony Twist reference that didn't get changed. I also noticed that the talking heads of the newscasters are now working at fake channels instead of CNN and E! I guess Todd got tired of getting sued by people and corporations.

[Derek Moreland · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun one. Still mostly ticking away on the subplots (what's up with Cyan, Sam and Twitch's connection to Spawn, etc), but we get a couple of MAJOR character/story revelations (not spoiling anything, but angels and vampires are involved). AND we get the introduction of the Heap, the first of the Eclipse characters folded into the Image universe and a possible herald for the incoming trouble with Miraclema...ahem, the Man of Miracles.

Oh! And the Freak returns, and he's a lot more interesting this time around.

[Timo · Rating 2 out of 5]

So much inner monologue that does not take the main plot anywhere. And that plot really drag very very slowly onwards. Even the ever entertaining investigations of Sam and Twich drag when the most annoying character ever (Cogliostro) gives mysterious hints of everything.
But the cliffhanger on this one is a good one.

[Jeffrey Greek · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't believe that they would kill off such a deeply nuanced character as The Freak so unceremoniously. And after playing such a pivotal role within the larger story to boot.

[Sarospice · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Heap is introduced. Sam and Twitch get a lot of screentime to sort out all the clues they've gathered (no answers). And Spawn is led to the space between heaven and hell. Cliffhanger!

[Karrthick · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was fine. The garbage monster was neat but amounted to not really anything. The dead zone was kind of dumb. More Sam and Twitch please.

[47Time · Rating 4 out of 5]

The war on the streets becomes bloody. Spawn reels in their anger and manifests it as maggots, bats and other creatures of evil. He uses this ability to kill Freak. Cog keeps telling Sam and Twitch that they must help Spawn soon or else the coming war between heaven and hell will tear the Earth apart.

Spawn is engulfed by the Heap, a being created from a portion of his necroplasm that has infected a dying bum. The fight ends with Spawn transported to another world, apart from heaven and hell.

[Michele Rice Carpenter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most excellent!