Spawn

[spaghettidracula]

Hine's Run Matters.jpg David Hine's run matters.

[Greg]

Hine's Run Matters.jpg David Hine's run matters.

Ha! This is awesome. I hope this spreads!

[Forever Knight]

Hine's run was the shit! But I am really enjoying this current run too!

[Paulie Blade]

I don't think I've ever read anything like #258. 98% action, 2% dialogue. Odd, but definitely fresh and fun.

I make up for the last 50 issues in my first book.

Well, I understand it now.

Btw, was it a one time only with Erik drawing or is he a new regular?

[Erik Larsen]

Btw, was it a one time only with Erik drawing or is he a new regular?

I'm the new regular.

[Forever Knight]

Love Larsen's art.

[SpideyAZ]

For those interested in where Wood/Jenkins/Jonboy wanted to take Spawn, check out this podcast - http://dangerpod.podbean.com//e/unde...jonboy-meyers/.

The podcast runs almost 2 hours but Spawn talk is sprinkled throughout.

[Rajikaru]

I went back and read Resurrection through Jenkin's "run" and man this book can be bad at maintaining continuity. Todd has always had this thing about randomly deciding certain things don't count while others do and not letting letting the audience know which is which. Like, do Heaven and Hell still take every other soul? How does that make sense with Spawn's costume being made of everyone he killed? Has that already been retconned with the apparent replacing of Belial with Satan? It seemed like Jenkins planned on the skinny thug with Clown make up to actually be Clown but now that seems to have been changed with Clown still suffering effects from the Downing days.

I think my best bet going forward is to just assume we are back in 90's Spawn continuity and go from there. I love Spawn but I do wish Todd was better at maintaining a cohesive narrative.

For my sanity, the continuity I acknowledge is issues 1-149 to 185 to current. As much as I loved Hines entire run, it's best to ignore those issues for a thing to make a sliver of sense.

My thing is, since Todd is trying to erase that story, will they be included in trade, or will it be ignored entirely? I'd like some confirmation on that myself at one point...

[Forever Knight]

New issue this wednesday! I can't wait!

[Paulie Blade]

For those interested in where Wood/Jenkins/Jonboy wanted to take Spawn, check out this podcast - http://dangerpod.podbean.com//e/unde...jonboy-meyers/.

The podcast runs almost 2 hours but Spawn talk is sprinkled throughout.

Can anyone who heard this post some summary? Unfortunately I'm not able to play it and I'm very curious about what was scrapped.

[SpideyAZ]

Can anyone who heard this post some summary? Unfortunately I'm not able to play it and I'm very curious about what was scrapped.

In a nutshell (all according to JonBoy Meyers), Wood wanted to go down a traditional route of Spawn leading an army of homeless against gangs. Jenkins and JonBoy were plotting to keep Wanda dead, Spawn closes the portals between Heaven and Hell, there are other Spawns in the world and Al Simmons hunts them in a Highlander-style story.

An interesting note was that JonBoy created two Spawn:Resurrections -one for Brian Wood and the other for Jenkins.

[Greg]

For my sanity, the continuity I acknowledge is issues 1-149 to 185 to current. As much as I loved Hines entire run, it's best to ignore those issues for a thing to make a sliver of sense.

My thing is, since Todd is trying to erase that story, will they be included in trade, or will it be ignored entirely? I'd like some confirmation on that myself at one point...

I don't ever see Hine's run getting collected. Todd has made it obvious he hated the run (despite fans feeling it was the best it's been in years) and the trade releases just keep on rebooting. At this point, what I'd do is bind my issues or maybe even find back issues of the run and bind those into a personal trade.

[Forever Knight]

In a nutshell (all according to JonBoy Meyers), Wood wanted to go down a traditional route of Spawn leading an army of homeless against gangs. Jenkins and JonBoy were plotting to keep Wanda dead, Spawn closes the portals between Heaven and Hell, there are other Spawns in the world and Al Simmons hunts them in a Highlander-style story.

An interesting note was that JonBoy created two Spawn:Resurrections -one for Brian Wood and the other for Jenkins.

That would have been awesome.

[Rajikaru]

Well, I'm one of glad Woods got the boot if that is the route he wants to go. Spawns world has evolved beyond homeless gang wars.

[Rajikaru]

Makes you wonder if he was actually aware of what Hine was doing when he was writing. Did he just let Hine do whatever without overseeing the direction and when he finally did Todd was like "oh crap! I should have been paying attention!"

I wouldn't have mind an in-story reset/reboot, as long as it made sense. To ignore well over 20 issues of story just screams wrong. Ton of ways the "genie could have been put back in the bottle" without ignoring said issues.