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rocketiza's review
3.0
This didn't hold up very well, but if I remember correctly, it wasn't till about issue 30 that the series got good.
mistled's review
4.0
Spawn isn't a comic I trust myself to rate fairly one way or the other. I read these back when the series first started in '92 and loved it. Loved it.
I still love the premise, but am not sure how quickly I would overlook the flaws in dialogue or ham-fisted problem solving if I had come to this in my mid-thirties with a clean slate. But I may have also allowed the art and ideas to wash over the rough areas. I just don't know. So this is 4 stars from teenager me. Adult me is just along for the nostalgia.
I still love the premise, but am not sure how quickly I would overlook the flaws in dialogue or ham-fisted problem solving if I had come to this in my mid-thirties with a clean slate. But I may have also allowed the art and ideas to wash over the rough areas. I just don't know. So this is 4 stars from teenager me. Adult me is just along for the nostalgia.
shinyfox's review
4.0
My boyfriend recommended this to me and I'm glad he did. I'm not a comic-book girl. I grew up with chapter books and was never introduced to comics until a few months ago when the Avengers craze hit and I picked up a few. Then I was handed this and told to read it. I was skeptical but once I started reading I found it was hard for me to put it down. "just one more page" turned into ten and then twenty! I enjoyed the characters and the plot and it was very intriguing, if a tiny bit gruesome at times. I can't wait to get my hands on the second volume!
depreydeprey's review
4.0
Todd McFarlane's art is one of the few things I like about comics in the 1990s. It's evocative and an amazing balance of hyper real and over the top that makes my heart sing. His art is so good it helped create an independent comics revolution with the formation of Image Comics along with six other artists. But as great as an artist and visual story teller as McFarlane is he is not a writer and ultimately that holds this collection back. Even with Frank Miller coming in at the end what is really needed is another voice at the beginning to get this story off on the right footing and separate it from good to great.
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