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Celebrate 25 years of Spawn with a sale!
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Primary topic this episode: this week’s comics! Other topics include Riverdale, Archie’s abs, podcast burning man, feeling bad if you date Archie, FAVE COVERS OF THE WEEK, Matty Byzantine, underboss surgery, meat suit, farm-boy Luke, loving Todd, fake DD news, angry Swampy, and your letters!
Get ready for Logan with this sale on some epic Wolverine story arcs
It’s the 25th anniversary of Image comics an these titles have become classics. Read them from the very beginning, fill out your collection, or find a good jumping on point – Spawn and Savage Dragon are on sale through 2/06.
Though they be but little, they are fierce! David Petersen’s Mouse Guard is on sale through 2/06.
Who would win in a fight, Spawn or Dragon?
No comment on the fight, but there’s a brilliance to these comic books.
I was reading @edpiskor‘s Hip Hop Family Tree #300 last night (the mini-comic supplement in the first slipcase talking about the connections between hip hop and Rob Liefeld) and it really got me thinking about why these early Image comics continue to work for me (and the proto-Image primarily at Marvel with the New Mutants, Spider-Man, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy runs by the founders) – if not even more now than they did before – while other childhood interests of mine now come off like tepid garbage.
There’s a weird, specific alchemy of work, time period and general pop culture mentality which hasn’t been replicated since – comic books which completely fuse into a certain 12-15-year-old-super-stoked-about-everything-oh-my-god-did-you-see-all-the-lines-drawn-onto-this-crazy-gun-toting-muscle-dude-totally-cool-holy-crap mentality. Logical sense goes out the door in lieu of drawing whatever the hell you want because it looks cool and it’s exciting and wait why is Stryfe looking just like Cable and why the hell does the word “BOOM!” repeat ad nauseum in the first three or so issues of Todd’s Spider-Man – oh, well!
Piskor does a really good job explaining Rob’s work in specific in HHFT, so I recommend giving it a read (and HHFT in general – good stuff). We also had a good talk about Rob with @royalboiler on Inkstuds some time ago.
Spawn and Savage Dragon hit pretty hard for me when they came out. Growing up with Catholic iconography around then reading a comic book about a soldier from Hell felt like I discovered evil texts I became completely enthralled by. Savage Dragon defied superhero conventions and riffed on comic books I wouldn’t read later to create something completely irreverent, but artistically interesting. The first 75 issues alone create a rich arc like you just don’t see much of any more.
Anyway, point is, I think these are some brilliant books in their own, weird (good weird) way and recommend giving them a second shot if you haven’t read them since they came out.
Recommendations don’t get much better than this! Thanks, Joe!
(Spawn would totally win, right?)
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Who would win in a fight, Spawn or Dragon?
If you’ve always wanted to get into reading Spawn, our @imagecomics Black Friday sale is a reeeeeeeal good excuse to do so.
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Dane Cypel recommends Spawn #250
Today, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn debuts a whopping 250 issue digital release of the classic Spawn series while also returning Al Simmons to his rightful place as Spawn.
I began reading comics in the 1990’s. It was Image that really drew me into the medium. Though, Spawn was one of those titles that always intrigued me- I loved McFarlane’s art and the design of the titular character, but I never really picked up the book.
Until recently, the Spawn movie and cartoon were the only things that connected me to the story. In the last several months, preparing for this launch, I have had to involve myself more with Spawn- and I am happy that I did. I enjoy lengthy, developed stories- and at 250 issues; Spawn has enough to keep anyone busy for months. So if you want a series to binge-read, this is it.
McFarlane has been able to also create a mythology, which I still do not yet understand, but am curious to find out more: Spawn #179 introduces a Hellspawn from the First World War, Spawn #183 has Nyx as the She-Spawn, and Spawn #250 features the return of Al Simmons, the original Spawn. Yes, Spawn has so much material the original Spawn was killed AND resurrected.
Spawn got better once I was able to revisit the entire story. Since I can see it continuing for another 23 years, I would recommend that now is the best time to start reading.
[READ SPAWN #250 ON COMIXOLOGY]
Dane Cypel is a digital editor at comiXology and freelance illustrator.
SPAWN is available NOW! These Bundles are INSANE.
SOON.
