Curse of the Spawn #1

Curse of the Spawn (single issues) #1

by Alan McElroy (Escritor), Dwayne Turner (Trazo), Danny Miki (Tintas)

In a future war, the battle of Armageddon is about to commence. The Anti-Pope, allying with the forces of evil, stands at the threshold of victory. Then, the man once known as Daniel Llanso rises out of the death destruction to become the new Hellspawn of this era. In a blind rage of memories from his own abused childhood, he saves two refugees, Madrid and Matthew from certain death at the hands of the Desiccator, by killing him. Even though Hellspawn just saved their lives, they feel only terror toward him while he seems very familiar to them.

Genres: Comics, Horror

48 pages, Paperback

Published October 18, 2000

About the author

Alan B. McElroy is an American writer of film, television, comic books, and video games. He is best known for his collaborations with Todd McFarlane on the Spawn franchise, and for penning horror films such as Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Wrong Turn.

Reviews

[Max's Comic Reviews and Lists · Rating 1 out of 5]

(Edited)
Man am I ever in the minority on this one! And maybe this isn't for me but GOD what a mess. First of all, I will just get this out of the way. The narration is tiring to read. DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH!! We get it, "daemons" are taking over the world and the human race is basically dead, and the tortured souls of lost people breath pain and agony. We don't need to know that piles of corpses are strewn at every step or God dies a bloody, hellish death 70 times!!! If I read the rest of the series I'd be in an asylum. This is basically if Marilyn Manson wrote a comic book about Spawn. There is simply too much world building as well. It would be better to focus on layered characters that we could possibly root for, instead of worshipping death for 22 pages. Oh and by the way Spawn shows up in the last 4-5 pages. Great. The art is frickin insane. Overly detailed cluttered crud. Some of the penciling is okay but the dark and ugly colour palate gets so exhausting after a while. But here's the thing. I have read some Spawn before and I liked it. This was just the epitome of NOT GOOD. It's a never-ending list of morbid death metaphors and I couldn't stand it! I wasn't infuriated while reading it like I was with The Divided States of Hysteria but I was close. As the book would say, this was like listening to nails scraping a blood-soaked femur! Letter Grade: (F)

[Romano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Curse of the spawn es uno de los relatos más sólidos dentro del universo creado por Todd McFarlane. La historia de Alan McElroy, Dwayne Turner y Danny Miki, se articula como una pionera del estilo de los 2000s, marcando la superación de la adolescencia que vivió la novela gráfica de los 90s. No se trata de un texto perfecto, pero el trabajo visual es sumamente efectivo en transmitir el torrente de opresión, desesperanza y tristeza, que ésta novela gráfica aspira a evocar.

[Martijn Van · Rating 1 out of 5]

Holy sh*t. This read was like a bad 90's numetal album. Curse of the Spawn by Anti-pope or something.

[alejandro galvez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good

I liked it. A little more color would have helped, but I appreciate the tone they are going for. A cool series. Will check out more in the future.