Batman/Spawn

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Interview with Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo

[Frontier]

I'm hyped .

[Toxin45]

Yep todd and co made a new Mcfarlane comic Twitter for all spawn and Mcfarlane comics

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Batman/Spawn #1 Preview
Writer: Todd McFarlane
Artist: Greg Capullo

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Batman/Spawn #1 Preview
Writer: Todd McFarlane
Artist: Greg Capullo

I'm probably more excited than I should be about this.

[Frontier]

I didn't think you could compare Bruce and Al so much, but I stand mistaken.

[JBatmanFan05]

Not reading a lot of positive reviews of McFarlane's writing of this..."ponderous," confusing plot (apparently overly connected to current Spawn continuity, which not everyone is steeped in), Batman's voice particularly off, unnecessary overnarration, etc.

(I wish Scott Snyder could have wrote this, with Todd merely contributing to the story)

[JBatmanFan05]

From a Geek Dad review:
"[T]his issue suffers from feeling much more like a Spawn issue guest-starring Batman than a DC comic the writing style is very distinctly McFarlane and can be a little ponderous, and Batman's dialogue sometimes feels distinctly off spoilers:

being willing to sacrifice Spawn to the Court at one point

end of spoilers, for instance."
https://geekdad.com/2022/12/review-b...aunted-gotham/

From another (Batman-News):
"McFarlane has never been a good writer. His strength lies in not only art but ideas. . . .McFarlane just doesn't have the writing chops to execute it. To a certain extent, I feel the same way about this story."
https://batman-news.com/2022/12/13/b...pawn-1-review/

[thwhtGuardian]

From a Geek Dad review:
"[T]his issue suffers from feeling much more like a Spawn issue guest-starring Batman than a DC comic the writing style is very distinctly McFarlane and can be a little ponderous, and Batman's dialogue sometimes feels distinctly off spoilers:

being willing to sacrifice Spawn to the Court at one point

end of spoilers, for instance."
https://geekdad.com/2022/12/review-b...aunted-gotham/

From another (Batman-News):
"McFarlane has never been a good writer. His strength lies in not only art but ideas. . . .McFarlane just doesn't have the writing chops to execute it. To a certain extent, I feel the same way about this story."
https://batman-news.com/2022/12/13/b...pawn-1-review/

That was pretty much my feeling, I literally stopped reading about halfway in, it was more like a fever dream than an actual coherent story. Even the art couldn't make me want to flip through it to the end.

I don't remember the last time I picked up a comic and decided not to finish it.

[sifighter]

Got to ask, and I'm not being combative or sarcastic I'm genuinely curious, what exactly would it be what you out of the third Batman/Spawn crossover aside from what we got in the issue?

[thwhtGuardian]

Got to ask, and I'm not being combative or sarcastic I'm genuinely curious, what exactly would it be what you out of the third Batman/Spawn crossover aside from what we got in the issue?

I never read the previous crossovers and only a little bit of early Spawn...and I just wanted a fun story. And from the half I read(does it get better in the end?)this was just a mess of a book with far too much of the plot conveyed through exposition heavy internal monologues which(especially at the start) are hard to discern whose thoughts they even are. On top of that the morose characterization of Batman just rubbed me the wrong way, not since the scene in Snyder's run where Bruce played with the bullets that killed his parents like they were baoding balls have I thought, "Man, this writer just doesn't get Bruce, he's just trying to be overly edgy."

[Refrax5]

I thought it was boring and at times a bit confusing. What did Spawn mean when he said Superman was murdered in his future?

[Destro777]

This was easily one of the worst comics of the last 30, maybe 40, years.
McFarlane has completely lost everything he knows about making good - or even acceptable comics. Embarrassing trash.

His worst offender - besides a completely incoherent, uninteresting story - is how he explains in the captions what is happening/drawn in the actual panel. Did he forget what medium he is working in?

If anyone thought this was bad, its even worse in the current Spawn comic universe. Its been middle school-high school level stuff for years now. Unreadable junk. No clue how the books have fans - I guess its all about the 'cool art'? Im stuck buying the monthly Spawn book because its one of the only comics Ive followed from issue #1 in grade school in early 90s till now. Its buy it and throw it in a box to keep the streak going.

[thwhtGuardian]

This was easily one of the worst comics of the last 30, maybe 40, years.
McFarlane has completely lost everything he knows about making good - or even acceptable comics. Embarrassing trash.

His worst offender - besides a completely incoherent, uninteresting story - is how he explains in the captions what is happening/drawn in the actual panel. Did he forget what medium he is working in?

If anyone thought this was bad, its even worse in the current Spawn comic universe. Its been middle school-high school level stuff for years now. Unreadable junk. No clue how the books have fans - I guess its all about the 'cool art'? Im stuck buying the monthly Spawn book because its one of the only comics Ive followed from issue #1 in grade school in early 90s till now. Its buy it and throw it in a box to keep the streak going.

Why buy books you don't enjoy reading?