Jim, what’s been the best thing for you, as both an artist and a fan, about seeing this book come together? Antes de hablar de este Spawn/Batman vamos a ponernos en precedentes: estamos en plenos años 90. Los chicos de oro de Marvel hace unos años que abandonaron La Casa de las Ideas para formar una editorial independiente: Image Comics. Menos Whilce Portacio, cada uno creó su propio sello. Recordemos que estamos en la época de los bolsillos, los pistolones, las cadenas, los dientes apretados, las posturas imposibles, la musculatura hipertrofiada a grados extremos y, seamos sinceros, un dibujo que ha envejecido muy mal. Pese a ello, en los 90 se vendían muchos tebeos por diferentes causas, como la especulación o la gran cantidad de portadas alternativas. Hay quienes pensaban que igual que se revalorizaron los primeros números de Superman, Batman o Capitán América, pasando a valer cientos de miles, o hasta millones, de dólares. Evidentemente, se equivocaron y terminaron con trasteros llenos de páginas sin apenas valor.

Soulcalibur II (2003; Xbox) voiced by Akio Otsuka in the Japanese version and by Kevin Michael Richardson in the English dub. [52] Todd, you worked on the very first Batman/Spawn crossover book with Frank Miller writing. The next one was done by a different creative team. For this new one, what did you want to do to set apart your story from what has come before and establish your own take on the Batman and Spawn dynamic? After a two-year gap, the line resumed with three volumes released in 2022: "Spawn: Record Breaker" (May 2022), Spawn: Aftermath (July 2022) and Spawn: Omega (September 2022), between them collecting Spawn issues #298-314.Gaiman & McFarlane Settle Suit on Medieval Spawn, Angela". Comic Book Resources. 2012-01-30 . Retrieved 2020-06-13. Summary: Batman heads to New York City in search of weapons. Later on, Batman fights with Spawn and gets beaten to shreds. Spawn wins the battle and gains leverage against Batman because Batman has no choice but to do what he says. Spawn gets inside his head and persuades him to fight against someone else instead of fighting with him. In the end, Spawn wanted to "bury the hatchet" with Batman since they worked so well together, but Batman had completely different plans.

CBC Arts (2004-12-20). "Todd McFarlane Productions files for bankruptcy". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 2007-07-13. Spawn wears a living symbiotic costume, Leetha of the 7th House of K (also known as K7-Leetha). While wearing it, the host assumes a dominant role over the suit. His shroud, spikes, chains and skulls are all part of an organism bonded to his central nervous system that protects Spawn even if he is unconscious. [23] War of Heaven and Hell [ edit ] Battle for life [ edit ]After an eight-year gap, the line resumed in April 2022 with Spawn Origins Collection Volume 21 collecting issues #123–128. Spawn Origins Collection Volume 22 collecting issues #129–134 was published in September 2022. In 1994 McFarlane Toys released the first line of Spawn toys produced, in later years the series would include alternate timeframes and different takes on the classic characters with toyline series. [70] Was it? Not even remotely. Reading this made me realize how good it is not to be a teen anymore since damn, is this book stupid and clichéd. And considered that the author is known for writing Batman and the artists is the one who had created Spawn you would think that both “heroes” are at least in-character but not even that they are. Albeit interestingly Spawn is more in-character than Batman. In any form of entertainment, people always want to be a part of big events to say, ‘Yeah, I was there,’” says McFarlane. “This is our moment to say, ‘Hey, for all of you that missed out and weren’t there for this a couple decades ago, here we go again. We’re going to have some fun. And for those of you that were, we’re going to hopefully do a bigger, badder, better version of what we did the last time.’” TM: I recall when I was working with Frank Miller on that book, one of the rules from DC was that I could not change anything about Batman. Even down to the belt and the symbol. I wanted to do the version without the yellow oval, but they told me I had to keep it. Nowadays, there’s two dozen Batmans and fifty different costumes. Everything’s open to interpretation.

Staley, Brandon (March 3, 2018). "Ready Player One's Comic Book Easter Eggs". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved April 8, 2018.Last question, what else would you like to see come out of this? Can we expect some Greg Capullo-designed Spawn and Batman action figures? In the game Mortal Kombat 11, Raiden remarked that Spawn reminded him of another "Dark Knight". Spawn remarks that the "billion dollar crusader" is a friend. It’s odd how much implication there is that we are in the midst of a complex plot with many twists and turns for what, in the end, boils down to an excuse to draw Batman and Spawn beating each other into bloody pulps. I guess my point is that despite how confusing all the narration and dialogue make this story, you can pretty much get an equal value out of it if you don’t read anything and instead look at the art and create your own reasons for all the brawling.