now, this is the Spawn I remember falling in love with. ), big guns, ultra-violence, over-abused symbiotic suits and almost not existing storylines.įrank Miller's story was just awful (and he's one of my most favourite authors ever), but McFarlane's artworks are real good ones, the two issues by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman (with first appearances ever of Violator's brothers, Angela and Medieval Spawn) are two little world-building gems, and the final two parts tale about Violator battling the Dark Ages Spawn is a real black humour jewel.Īhh. Lots of the episodes collected here are 100% 90s crap: cyborgs (a prototype of Overt-kill character was created by by Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane, under direction from Stan 'The Man' Lee, you can watch the video here. Vote: ☆☆☆1/2/☆☆☆☆ if you are one of the lucky owners of issue #9 by Neil Gaiman (luckly I'm one of them because it was reprinted inside my 90s italian edition of this collection *evil grin*), sadly Dave Sim's issue #10 was never reprinted by author's will. He's also a high-profile collector of history-making baseballs. McFarlane used to be co-owner of National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers but sold his shares to Daryl Katz. In September, 2006, it was announced that McFarlane will be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, founded by Curt Schilling.

In recent years, McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio. Spawn was one of America's most popular heroes in the 1990's and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties.

In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book artist, writer, toy manufacturer/designer, and media entrepreneur who is best known as the creator of the epic occult fantasy series Spawn.

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