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Summary: This is the title
Review: Great art, good story, great read. It's a stretch from the normal Spawn series taking place almost 500 years in the future. The new Spawn is Daniel, who awakes in a confusion of literal hell on earth. This is better than Spawn, who hides in a urban jungle, because this Hellspawn wanders a giant warzone of a planet.Avoid naysayers, this is a good graphic novel. Are you really going to listen to the guy who says a comic is "too wordy" or that he has almost no depth perception so it takes a few minutes "to stare at the picture for a few minutes to figure out what the heck you're looking at". This guy could win the Special Olympics in a millisecond! Read it, make your own decision.
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Summary: the best coomic book yet*
Review: i love the preview that u gave my ofthe comic book curse of spawn:sacrifice of the soul,i love it. thanks, the best comic book yet*
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Summary: Depth is good, but it can be overdone
Review: This collection is the first part (it collects #1-4) of a Spawn-series that takes place many years AFTER the events currently in the core-title. In here Hell DID already break loose on earth. It's done in a manner with a mood-setting that is as sick and hopeless as possible. A little bit in the style of Hellraiser, only now worldwide. No element of gore is left un-used. About it: It's the future, 500 years after Hell took over on earth and set loose it's 1000-year war. Perspectives of those few humans still alive in this place are pretty sad. The only function they still seem to have is to be food for the creatures that now roam the world. Because a human body contains water and water is very rare in this day and age. The one who directed the fall of earth is now it's ruler, the 'anti-pope'. Two humans who ARE still alive are trying to make their way from hiding place to hiding place without getting destroyed by one of the many kinds of those who hunt them. Luckily a newborn Hellspawn comes to their aid. Only he's not fully aware of what he has become (or what he is now exactly) and what he can and can't do, yet. The concept is good, only the execution is a little lacking. McElroy likes to describe pain and agony deeply but he tends to go a bit over the top at times. At first that's not really a problem, but when it keeps going on and on it eventually tires a reader down. Especially because there's very little dialogue because off it. The story suffers from it, it seems less important. The art is good, especially for those used to reading the core Spawn title. It will feel faniliair to them.
Though, if you're considering to get into this "Elseworlds Spawn" series I'd advise to get the second volume of the series ("Blood & Sutures").
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Summary: Another B.S. power fantasy from McFarlane land
Review: This has got to be one of the sorriest graphic novels I have ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on. First, the plot: There are holes in the holes! If Hell is so powerful, why haven't they won in 500 years' time? Seems like they could just destroy the world in a year's time; humans could do it much faster, after all. The new Spawn, Daniel Llanso, is worse than Al Simmons in his self-absorbed time-wasting vacillations between easy evil and difficult virtue. The akward, wordy dialogue and captions make me cringe. ("Battered, broken, a weeping wound from head to toe, Daniel Llanso uses the last of his waning strength to leap and dig his talons into the runneled, festering archdaemon flesh of the sovereign of the bottomless pit, the destroyer, the chief of the demon locusts. Abaddon." Rereading this gives me a stomachache.) One caption box in particular: "--AND A NEW HELLSPAWN RISES." is nearly illegible from the multiple computer effects and filters applied to the text and background. And this brings me to the art. It is undeniably cartoony, but somehow over-detailed besides. It's anyone's guess how Dwayne Turner pulls this off. All lines are inked with exactly the same thickness, so you have to stare at the picture for a few minutes to figure out what the heck you're looking at. And it would be an understatement to say the computer coloring is overdone. It's beyond the realm of overdone. Just plain awful. I can't look at it or think about it anymore. BLECCHH. If zero stars was allowed I would have picked it. Avoid this and other Spawn books at any cost. ..............-koby.
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Summary: Pretty good, not great
Review: This is strange comic. You don't find this sort of thing very often. Picture something out of the first TERMINATOR movie (1984) but substitute demons for robots and Hell for Earth. My criticisms are also compliments. The artwork is excellent, very detailed. Unfortunately, the book is so dark it's often hard to figure out what's going on. The writing is very good for a comic. That being said, the writing is almost TOO GOOD for a comic. It almost would have worked better as a novel. The writing has this odd flow to it which doesn't lead to smooth pacing. I'm not sure if I can explain it. But the pacing of this story could have been better. Nonetheless, I will probably buy the next book when it becomes available. I feel the series has potential.
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Summary: Different
Review: This isn't the typical Spawn book. It's more dark and violent than the others. Worth the time if you liked that aspect of the other Spawn books.
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Summary: Different
Review: This isn't the typical Spawn book. It's more dark and violent than the others. Worth the time if you liked that aspect of the other Spawn books.
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