for the love of god, whoever got invited into this dangerous(yet idiotic) cult shouldn't accept it, for your own safety, if you know your relatives being in there, please seek out help from anyone who can help you, all I can do for now is just saying my words but this shit is truly got that bad, how forsaken two time managed to pull shit like this while not being real, how, cult existed before but it got TOO out of hand now to be unnoticed to everyone's eyes.
also voice reveal.
thanks for ruining spawn symbol spawnists, I am very proud of you that people will soon associate this one with DEATH instead of LIFE more and more.
I really got into Spawn my freshman year of high school, and still have a fondness for the early days of the book when it was still draped in superhero aesthetics.
The Redeemer first appears in Spawn #16 He is the anti-Spawn and the Reaper made by Heaven to combat the HellSpawn there had been three hosts for the Redeemer so far. The First was Jason Wynn, The second was Phil Timper,and the third and Current Redeemer is Eddie Frank.
Spawn #16- 18 “Reflections” by Grant Morrison, Greg Capullo, Dan Panosian. Image Comics, 1993
I always wanted to like Todd MacFarlane’s Spawn. The comic looks great, it’s about a war between Heaven and Hell which normally is a can’t-miss premise, but the story just never grabbed me. Our boy Grant Morrison did an arc on Spawn back in the day, and like previous issues by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, and Dave Sim, Morrison attempts to flesh out Todd McFarlane’s world of cool poses and heavy metal demon shit into something resembling an actual story. Was he successful? Let’s find out.
Summary: Some army guys in the desert find a town composed entirely of “psychoplasm,” a substance from Hell that conforms to people’s desires (Think a Green Lantern ring made out of the pink sludge from Ghostbusters 2). This town, which emerged from an A-bomb test site, is called Simmonsville, and it was shaped from the memories of our own Al Simmons, aka Spawn. This psychoplasmic town is actually a gateway to Hell, and the army foolishly makes a deal with the Devil: deliver the Hellspawn and the army can have all the psychoplasm it wants.
Meanwhile, Spawn mopes in an alley and stops some bad guys from torching a homeless man (a depressingly regular occurrence in this comic). Spawn goes to his gravesite and digs up the coffin, only to find his own rotting corpse. The Violator laughs at his pain and informs us, the readers, that Spawn’s body is now pure psychoplasm as his flesh rots away.
The angel CEO Gabrielle decides that this new Hellspawn is going to be a problem (he defeated Angela during the Gaiman issue) so she and the other angels take drastic measures. Army guy Jason Wynne is selected to become “Anti-Spawn.” Spawn and Anti-Spawn have a big Image Comics fight scene. The homeless guys in the alley pitch in to help (like in the Roosevelt Island scene in Spider-Man). Spawn temporarily defeats the Anti-Spawn, then goes to shoot up Simmonsville
The story ends with Simmonsville destroyed and Heaven plotting their next move.
Thoughts: Ehhhhhh. It’s Spawn. There are some cool ideas (psychoplasm, Simmonsville, ANTI-SPAWN), and some great art by a young Greg Capullo, but it adds up to less than the sum of its parts. The Spawn mythology puts me to sleep (even the Neil Gaiman stuff) and prevents me from ever caring what happens to the main character. If you’re a fan the Jason Wynne stuff probably means something, but all I got out of it was “Army bad, Hell bad, Spawn good.”
If I were in charge of Image Comics I would order a total reboot- get rid of Violator, Malebolgia, Cagliostro, Angela, all of it, and start over. If you lifted ideas from like Dante’s Inferno, Paradise Lost, Biblical apocrypha, etc and built a superhero book around it then you’d be onto something, but the world MacFarlane has created just doesn’t do it for me, I’m afraid. Pass, unless you really like Spawn, in which case you’ve already read this.
