SuperHeroBooks - Spawn: Batman
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Manufacturer: Image Comics
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Binding: Comic
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781582400198
ISBN: 1582400199
Label: Image Comics
Manufacturer: Image Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 56
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Publisher: Image Comics
Studio: Image Comics
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Summary: good art, no story
Comment: The characters don't act as they did at that time. The pinups/art are rather nice especially if u compare to the dc verison which as bad as it gets.
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Summary: en vogue
Comment: Ripping into Todd McFarlane is the in thing to do these days, but I loved his art back in the day, and I love it now. When Todd and the rest left for Image, it was huge. The first few issues of Spawn were incredible, with a color pallatte no one had ever seen in comics, and Todd unleashed to go as splashy as he wanted. When this was announced, people were foaming at the mouth, especially with Miller penning it. I look at this book as a summer blockbuster. I ain't expecting the Bard! This is exactly what a good summer movie should be, fun and larger than life. The writing is weird, but then, so is Frank. The art is classic Todd, and seeing Todd's version of Batman again is worth the price of admission. is it highbrow ? Heck no, but who cares, it is FUN
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Summary: its better than the other one
Comment: i think that this batman spawn is better than the roanoke one because
1.the drwaing and the way spawn acts r a whole lot better
2. batman acts more brutal and unforgiving in this one
3. the battles between batman and spawn in this one r a whole lot more epic and brutal
4. in their second battle in this book batman creams spawn with special gloves, just like batman beat superman in the return of the dark knight and the sequal
...i just like this one better
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Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: An inter-company crossover tale. Batman doesn't like the guy that he meets from the other universe. There's a huge, massive, shocker. After some posturing and much flowing around of cool looking capes they realise they have to take on the crazed supervillain type out to do really, really, bad things.
Good capes, not much else.
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Summary: Miller good/McFarlane bad
Comment: I put off buying this book for the last 13 years.
I've tried to understand the popularity of Todd McFarlane's work, but I just don't get it.
He seems to be the perfect example of what was so bad about the initial Image explosion in the 90's. Style over content.
And TM's style isn't that great anyway.
This book would've worked with an artist like Bill Sienkiewicz. The scenes where Margaret Love details her plans to 'heal the world' would benefit from a less linear artistic approach. Instead they seem like a glossed over afterthought (and not because of the writing). Because TM does exactly what it says on the tin. A good artist can draw one panel without any dialogue and you could spend hours on it. But TM's art is so disposable, it reads like Batman fights Spawn for 99% of the book... oh, and there's something about averting a world war.
Also, Batman is depicted in almost every panel with his head in black silhouette, except for a large pair of cartoony white eyes.
Come to think of it, so is Spawn. Spotting a trend yet? It may have been a stylistic choice, but it just looks lazy.
In fact, at one point Alfred asks why Bruce Wayne is wearing the cowl in the cave. It's like he's saying what everyone else is thinking. Faces are a bit too much of a challenge, perhaps?
Miller however, is, as always, fun to read. It's not one of his more prolific efforts, but you see the ongoing development of the Batman characterisation he continues with in DK2 and All Star Batman & Robin. He's a grizzly, no nonsense, over the top. I suppose you either love it or hate it.
BUT the art really lets the story down. Pulls it down, in fact.
Not one of Miller's wiser collaboration choices. It seems like a wasted opportunity. And a blatant crossover sales pitch.
But credit where it's due, the final page alone was worth it. No-one does a cynical punchline like Miller.
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Frank Miller, author of The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One and Sin City, brings Batman to New York City in his search for an arsenal of high-tech weapons and robots that use decapitated human heads as their brains. Antagonistic, confrontational and suspicious of each other, Spawn and Batman engage in violent battles before realizing they are both after the same villain. Grudgingly, they decide to work together. The person they seek has been kidnapping and decapitating the homeless for use in the robots, but that’s only part of the plan: there is also a nuclear arsenal ready to be deployed. Will Spawn and Batman be able to foil the plan to destroy the world? It’s a story filled with many twists and turns and a surprise ending that affected Spawn for years afterward.
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