SuperHeroBooks - Spawn, Book 2: Dark Discoveries (Spawn (TSR))
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Manufacturer: Image Comics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781887279536
ISBN: 1887279539
Label: Image Comics
Manufacturer: Image Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher: Image Comics
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Image Comics
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Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: Spawn got old, pretty quickly, but was ok at the start. I was never a fan of McFarlane, so probably part of the problem right there. It does have going for it the fact that that Spawn is not your corn fed white boy, mid-American billionaire playboy, or other such type of character, however. Even if they did burn the crap out of him in hell.
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Summary: Spawn is Classic
Comment: Spawn WAS the most popular comics character of the mid-late 1990s, peaking with the Spawn movie and then dropping off the public radar. This graphic novels collects Spawn issues in the 20s, when he was scortching hot. The thing I didn't like about Spawn, keeping me from actually reading until now was the obvious racism to the main character, especially in the first issue. On the other hand, if Spawn WAS NOT a black guy, his costume would just scream white supremacist much the same as DC's Steel character. So, to keep it from being completely racist, ...they made one of the biggest comic heroes of all time a black guy?!!! See also the racist inclinations of Superman, the name with a white character. Anyhow, Spawn has his achilles' heel that some characters are just as good or even more powerful than him. He certainly would be no match against someone truly godlike like Galactus, or would he? With weak villains in the Spawn mythos like the Violator, Spawn was never really tested, just government cover up, Vertigo like storylines.
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Summary: Classic Spawn revisted
Comment: I still read comics, and Spawn was the new big thing, peaking in 1997 with a Hollywood movie. However, I lost most of my comic humor with Spawn out of fear of being labeled racist, with the lead character being of African American ancestry, there were a number of racist currents and still are as the Spawn book continues today. His costume is cool- that's the thing- if Spawn were nota black guy much as is the case with DC's Steel character, it would just scream white supremacist all over it. I am not judging the Spawn comics by his skin color, in fact the exact opposite- I will warn you this contains a number of highly racist themes much like The Sandman. Collects Spawn like issues 21 to 26 or something. :)
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Summary: McFarlane Makes Marvel Shiver
Comment: Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld and their merry band of inkers and scribblers moved on from the publishing slaughterhouse of Marvel Comics to form their own brand of magic in Image. Soon, along with Marvel and DC, they became legion. Too many years had passed with artists treated badly, raped of thier work and paid a pittance for their scemes and visions. So says Frank Miller in the foreward to this first glimpse of the Spawn comic phenomenon.
Enter Image Comics. Enter Todd McFarlane. Enter Spawn.
The Empire is made.
Spawn starts off where most comics had not before this time in early '92. Al Simmons, an ex-paramilitary assassin, hired gun, mercenary, etc.... wakes up and finds that he had died and gone to hell and sold his soul to come back to earth to see his wife. Weird. Yeah. Only Al (Spawn) finds out that five years have passed since he died and that his wife Wanda has remaried his best friend and they now have a child together (something Simmons could never do). Ouch. Life sucks. The Devil (Malebolgia) has screwed him bigtime! Enter The Violator, an entity and emissary of Malebolgia's, hiding his truly hideous demonic form behind the guise of a short, fat, disguting clown. Really weird.
Spawn works on levels that Marvel and DC couldn't or wouldn't touch at the time. More adult in its themes. More skin. More violence. More vulgarity (without outright profanity). Issues illustrated and discussed in Spawn were darker and more relevant than anything that was going on in the big publishers comic collections. Corruption and greed, murder, rape and despair....
What McFarlane did in the creation of Image and Spawn was giving the artists and writers back their pride and their rights to make a profit on their own creations and move away from the tired characters that Marvel had been toting around for decades. What he did with Spawn was create a anti-hero/vigilante Hellspawn kick-ass comic legend. Sure it got tired as it drug on, but the begining was fresh. Dark. Deep.
Dig it.
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Summary: McFarlane: The Would-be Messiah Of The Comic World Turned Corporate Mega-Man
Comment: After pulling away from Marvel and forming Image Comics with a few upstart friends, Todd McFarlane was raring to go with the induction of Spawn. Soon to be a huge fan favorite, McFarlane started to shift focus from the traditional powerhouse productions of Marvel and DC and started to dominate the genre. Then came the toys... Poof! McFarlane's a mega-millionaire, action-figures have been redefined as works of artistic abandon, and Spawn is a household name.... In the world of comics, popularity often breeds contempt. As with the evolution of Spawn as an anti-hero/vigilante death-machine marched forward...the story starts to thread a little, showing the understructure where McFarlane forgot to color over the #s. Spawn has started to become tedious, as with many of the old Marvel legends. Rehashing ties and old storylines are like beating a dead horse. Is Spawn still readable? Yes. Is it as good as it once was? No. Get used to the idea that Todd has moved on from being a comic book artist to being a corporate chairman/MTV video director. Spawn? What's that? A comic book? How silly....
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Al Simmons, formerly one of our government`s greatest soldiers, was resurrected from the ashes of his own grave. Reborn as a creature from the depths of Hell, disfigured, homeless, and alone, this new warrior known as Spawn now wanders the shadowy alleys of New York City in search of his past life. When he reluctantly becomes a protector of the weak, the poor, the downtrodden and other victims of circumstance who reside in the alleys, they unconditionally accept the man whose body is nothing more than scars and torn flesh. However, soon he inadvertently finds himself embroiled in turf wars with the Mafia and the street gangs who perceive him as a threat. Find out why Spawn exists, who his real enemies are, and whom he can trust, for in this twisted world of shadow players, nothing is as it appears.
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