During the mid 90's Spawn was the biggest or close to the biggest comic book star around. There was a movie, that while not bad, was not well received. Spawn had his own HBO series that was awesome. There were toys galore. Today, I was combing the web and came across an article on IMAGECOMICS.com, about Spawn Endgame.
Spawn Endgame is a relaunch by Image co-founders Mcfarlane and Portacio. Starring an amensiac, who has Al Simmons powers bestowed upon him. In turn, Spawn 191 was sold-out in stores, the last issue before Endgame is launched.
While reading the article, it got me excited about Spawn again. I have not read spawn since I was about 10 and I had the first 23 issues. I loved how cool Spawn was, how he looked, the villains, everything. I made my mom take me to see the movie when it came out. I owned all of the toys. For some reason as I got older, I just kind of drifted away from Spawn. Maybe it was because it peaked while I was still elementary school and middle school. Maybe, I just found out about more of the main stream comic books as the movies started coming out when I was in high school, starting with Spider-man, when I was a senior in high school. Regardless, I feel very guilty for forgetting about Spawn. I wish there was a way to go back and collect issue I missed. I figure the only thing I can do is go by the graphic novel collections.
What is the future for Spawn? Endgame sounds really awesome and it is going to make me subscribe to the series on IMAGE. I heard a local radio show interview, here in DC, with Todd Mcfarlane, where he mentions movie studios wanting to option Spawn for a reboot. Mcfarlane talked about {how he is writing a script and may even direct, if the studios want a smaller budget.} The podcast can be found on itunes, under podcasts, Big O and Dukes, May 15 Todd Mcfarlane phoner. There is some great insight in the interview. How do the rest of you feel? Those of you have been reading my posts have been reading about the big two, Marvel and DC. Lets venture out for a second and discuss and remember Spawn and all of its glory. We can even pretend that it is 1995.
Let me know what you think.
- Aaron