Some of their earliest videos were structured like this to where Sal just sort of answered the guy's questions as they popped up instead of talking through the story in order.
I want to say this was back in 1995 but my friend and I went to a convention that was going on pretty close to us and McFarlane was going to be there, so of course I took my Spawn issues and ASM #300 to get signed. We got there and they had messed up our room reservation so they gave us another room, little did we know it was right next door to Todd's room, so I got all my stuff signed before the con started. I'm glad I did because while everyone else was waiting in line that stretched almost completely around the room, I spent pretty much the entire portion of the con talking to and helping run the booth for a wonderful couple I met, Golden Age artist and Alan Scott Green Lantern creator Mart Nodell and his wife. I'll never forget the hug his wife gave me as we were leaving that Sunday when she told me I had made the entire weekend for Mart because for that weekend he felt like what he had done mattered and made a difference.
RowdyRodimus WOW! Sounds like you a had a one in a lifetime opportunities there! How old was the original creator of Alan Scott? You ever ask his opinion on Hal Jordan?
@@TheKingOfRooks It was a great time. Hearing his stories was fun as hell (to answer a prior question I'm going to guess he was in his late 70s/early 80s and was basically blind). I said his wife gave me a hug when everyone was leaving but after that Mart said he had something for me and reached into his bag, I was hoping it wasn't money because I'm one of those people that wants to help just to help and be a good guy, you know? Anyway he brought out a painting he had at his booth that he had done of GL, Captain America and The Human Torch and gave it to me as a way of saying thanks, I had mentioned it to him before not implying anything I just liked it, so him giving it to me was amazing. However, the best part of the entire show was when he made me start calling him "Uncle Marty", I don't know why it tickled me so much I guess it was just the fact that here's this guy I had read about for years studying the art form and now he's basically making me family. Not the kind of experience you have everyday but does kind of show the kind of community comic books can have when it's about the stories and characters and not ideologies, I miss those days.
*Morrison:* "And Heaven is this realm that's full of machines and circuitry and computers!" "That's an interesting concept, Grant." *Morrison:* "It's not a concept. I was there." "..." _Elsewhere:_ *Officer:* "And you say this rambling Scottish man came into your university's computer room and, uh...'started molesting all of our computers'?" "Yes, that's right." *Officer:* "And on a scale of 1 to 10, how naked was he?" "Uhhhhh...Too. He was too naked."
As someone who has read most of his work and seen interviews of him, I can assure you he has said and done (look up wank-a-thon) stranger stuff than this.😆
Yeah. Supergods, his book, really bears this out. As soon as you get into the part that was obviously a drug trip he went on(I can't remember if he explicitly confirms it was) you start wondering if he's messing with you, as before that the book's content was philosophical but not psychedelic. Then you realize he is absolutely serious about the insanity you're reading, and that it's crucially important to his understanding on life. It actually really helps to understand his larger body of work, and in totality is surprisingly cohesive with the more prosaic autobiographic parts and his digressions on comics. Much like Morrison himself is surprisingly functional considering he's done some serious hallucinogens.
Tevya Smolka Top Cow books have almost always been very good. In my opinion, the rest of Image was not that great or truly enjoyable until after the mid 2000’s.
This "rambling tangent filled episode" was both entertaining and insightful. I thoroughly enjoyed the breakdown of the _Spawnomenon_ and McFarlane in the 90s, and his machinations in the industry.
I really like these retrospective episodes of back issues that look back at particular comic book phenomenons. Its rather interesting to hear about this stuff
*Old man Grievousish sitting on his porch* "Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the return of Spawn on Back Issues. You see, long ago our glorious leaders ComicPOP went by another name, that being TV Little House. In those chaotic times they covered the book called Spawn. And as suddenly as it appeared, it vanished. Never to be seen again on the show until the glorious day of Spawn #300 arrived. And what a day it was......"
Ah, it feels like just yesterday that I watched the original Spawn Back Issues. It's truly amazing how far you guys have come. This video encapsulates how much this channel has improved and at the same time kept the same charm from the get go.
It is so funny to me that the Back Issues episode of Spawn is more about the publication and merchandising history than the actual story. This perfectly reflects what the character amounts to in the end, a great design to sell and market and have a comic as the excuse to make all these toys.
This was simply awesome. The humor, the history, the thoroughness, and good god Sal does some rather kickass pretty damn spot-on impressions. I was picturing MacFarlanes voice from a video I recently saw about him giving his take on the look for Venom in the recent movie and then Sal hits that specific tone on the nose. And that Stan Lee impression was ridiculously on point. Also the whole bit with the "beating heart? how bout a nice red apple" was super funny cuz it's super true so often.
I was really into Spawn as a kid. I even met the real Al Simmons (Todd’s childhood friend) at a small convention where he was signing comics. Of course, they later fought in court over trademark rights.
What a great episode! It would be great if you do more on this kind of episodes talking about the phenomenon instead of the comic itself. Awesome content!
I honestly like Spawn as a character, I love that he's a playable character in Mortal Kombat 11. But a lot of the stories in his books are very hit or miss. The animated series was easily the greatest thing associated with the franchise.
My first experience of Spawn was the movie when I was 4 or 5 years old. I didn't even know Spawn was a comic until a decade or so later. I read the first 10 issues of the comic and I thought it was okay, but it's amazing that Spawn is still ongoing to this day. It's especially cool that it's a long-running comic book with a POC protagonist.
I really enjoyed this episode. I kind of like the idea of using back issues as a vehicle to revisit things and kind of contextualize the time or industry. You kind of do that already in episodes but maybe if there is enough material you could make some more like this. It's pretty great.
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My god, sal read 100 cómics of spawn in 72 hours? :o
Great episode! I can remember picking up the first 25 issues of Spawn monthly when I was in high school. I honestly gave up reading it after issue 25 (the Marc Silvestri issue) cause I felt like it wasn’t going anywhere. I loved the 2 issues featuring Chapel (from Youngblood) just because they had to retcon the whole story when Liefeld was forced out of Image. Thanks for an episode bringing back so many memories!!
22:21 on the subject of Iced Earth, they are one of my favourite metal bands of all time. Discovered them from the video game Brutal Legend and haven't looked back since
Playing Spawn: In The Demon's Hand on the Dreamcast with my brother back in the day is my best multiplayer video game memories. To this day, I can hear the announcer saying, "You've died, but it is not the end!" when I fail at something. Also, playing the game helped me realize how incredibly dumb the name OVERT-KILL was.
I remember seeing Spawn everywhere when I was a kid, but had no clue he was a comic book character at the time. I also came into across Todd McFarlane’s name via the sports action figures, but had no clue he was a comic book artist back then. I’ve honestly never read any of the comics before but I have always thought the character design looked pretty dope.
Iced Earth has made some incredible concept albums and I love that The Dark Saga has comic art. Also love Horror Show and A Glorious Burden. Who doesn't love a 23 minute long song about The Battle of Gettysburg?
Sal, the more I watch your videos the more I think you're my spirit animal! I also read Spawn from issue 1 to 100 and the stories you mentioned in that run are the ones I remember too. It's almost creepy! LOL
I think you guys just created a new idea for another show. I would be so down for more videos of Sal explaining the history of characters and their creators. My favorite Spawn was Movie Spawn because I had the toy.
I’m glad you did the episode on image and spawn as brands. I find it really interesting and I’ve wanted a competent unbiased docu on the company forever
A fantastic video guys. You should be really proud of this one. I love the idea of Back issues History Of. I also really enjoyed the throwback since I've binge-watched the Back Issues playlist from your very first episodes where you're standing in the kitchen. This history vid was great to listen to, especially with Sal's thrown in thoughts. The detail that it went into and how it broke down the potential thoughts behind every decision was brilliant. A bit of a general feedback outside of how good this episode was - I know Back Issues is more a fun romp through a story that's very much flavoured by how whoever is in the middle feels on the character/story rather than an in-depth analysis of the comics and I really do enjoy this style of presenting, but there are times when I do wish Ben toned down how often he does the Jock-jokes. There are some Back Issues where it seems like he's on a huge roll and can't stop wisecracking and dirtying it up and no matter how funny that can be, it wears thin a little on a comic discussion show.
I like the fucked up stories where people do fucked up things and spawn then comes and fucks them up, I like that that todd want to make him a boogeyman.
Love this episode. It's very much like the Maxx episode, which I absolutely loved as well. I'm totally cool with this format for some of the phenomenon characters
Every Spawn comic I read, I read in Keith David’s voice. It’s the same with Kevin Conroy as Batman in every Batman comic. It would have been awesome if Keith and Kevin collaborated for a Batman/ Spawn movie. Sal’s impression of Todd McFarlene is spot on🤣😂👊🏾👊🏾💙
Oh Sal! Can't you imagine it...2024....A Best of the Worst spotlight episode, the newest film ever to be on the show, 2022's Spawn...written and directed by Todd MacFarlane, the near perfect combination that brought us GETEVEN, Alien Private Eye, and the films of Breen.... it'll be a glorious day my friend!
Sal, you bastard. I was watching this next to my girlfriend while she slept and your Todd impression made me burst out in manic cackling because I grew up with that show. Now, I have to explain to her why I was going nuts at 4 a.m..
Don’t know who these guys are but I ended up watching the entire hour-plus video because I wanted to catch up on Spawn issues since late 90s (when I stopped reading it). This was so unexpectedly entertaining. 🤓
Tons of highlights for me...when Spawn kills Violator, when Spawn confronts Mammon, killing Kincaid, killing Overtkill, killing Tiffany, I loved his transformation and look after #50, the medieval hellspawn 2 parter I think issues #16 and #17...just LOVE the series ❤️
I only read the first 24 or so issues of Spawn, back when I was like 12 or something, and I remember liking them quite a bit, then trying to revisit them and being like "man, Macfarlane" cannot write. But honestly, some of these random one-off issues your describing where every issue is just about Spawn giving some different variety of bad person their comeuppance is very intriguing to me--sort of sounds like an EC anthology horror vibe.
I really dig this idea of giving a casual history of stuff in the comics industry. I'd love to see more videos like this on different subjects.
That's not bad. It could be called Back Stories or Back Histories...Might need to work shop that. LOL
R.J.Godzilla81 Back Stories. It’s official. Put it in Print
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Some of their earliest videos were structured like this to where Sal just sort of answered the guy's questions as they popped up instead of talking through the story in order.
I've only watched a handful of their videos, but they've all been like this.
Oh my God. This an entire hour of Sal ranting about Image, McFarlane, and Spawn and it just might be the greatest episode of Back Issues ever.
I want to say this was back in 1995 but my friend and I went to a convention that was going on pretty close to us and McFarlane was going to be there, so of course I took my Spawn issues and ASM #300 to get signed. We got there and they had messed up our room reservation so they gave us another room, little did we know it was right next door to Todd's room, so I got all my stuff signed before the con started. I'm glad I did because while everyone else was waiting in line that stretched almost completely around the room, I spent pretty much the entire portion of the con talking to and helping run the booth for a wonderful couple I met, Golden Age artist and Alan Scott Green Lantern creator Mart Nodell and his wife. I'll never forget the hug his wife gave me as we were leaving that Sunday when she told me I had made the entire weekend for Mart because for that weekend he felt like what he had done mattered and made a difference.
RowdyRodimus WOW! Sounds like you a had a one in a lifetime opportunities there! How old was the original creator of Alan Scott? You ever ask his opinion on Hal Jordan?
Wow.
That's an amazing story and a very lucky experience to have had
@@TheKingOfRooks It was a great time. Hearing his stories was fun as hell (to answer a prior question I'm going to guess he was in his late 70s/early 80s and was basically blind). I said his wife gave me a hug when everyone was leaving but after that Mart said he had something for me and reached into his bag, I was hoping it wasn't money because I'm one of those people that wants to help just to help and be a good guy, you know? Anyway he brought out a painting he had at his booth that he had done of GL, Captain America and The Human Torch and gave it to me as a way of saying thanks, I had mentioned it to him before not implying anything I just liked it, so him giving it to me was amazing. However, the best part of the entire show was when he made me start calling him "Uncle Marty", I don't know why it tickled me so much I guess it was just the fact that here's this guy I had read about for years studying the art form and now he's basically making me family. Not the kind of experience you have everyday but does kind of show the kind of community comic books can have when it's about the stories and characters and not ideologies, I miss those days.
This is beautiful!!
Nearly died laughing at the macfarlene crypt keeper impersonation.
That hit me out of nowhere. Almost crashed my car laughing
Sal's ability to do spot on impersonations of comic creators is fucking awesome and hilarious.
I swear, the entire inception of Image Comics has to be one of the most fascinating aspects of comic book history to this very day
This episode was just a big Tangent and I loved it.
41:41 I absolutely love it when Ben hits the nail on the head without knowing it
I’m down for back issues on the history of characters.
They should do Batman next. Sal will LOVE that!
Same. I love this type of content.
@Jimmy Jammy bhhhk I
*Morrison:* "And Heaven is this realm that's full of machines and circuitry and computers!"
"That's an interesting concept, Grant."
*Morrison:* "It's not a concept. I was there."
"..."
_Elsewhere:_
*Officer:* "And you say this rambling Scottish man came into your university's computer room and, uh...'started molesting all of our computers'?"
"Yes, that's right."
*Officer:* "And on a scale of 1 to 10, how naked was he?"
"Uhhhhh...Too. He was too naked."
Lmao that’s one to see it.
As someone who has read most of his work and seen interviews of him, I can assure you he has said and done (look up wank-a-thon) stranger stuff than this.😆
Yeah. Supergods, his book, really bears this out. As soon as you get into the part that was obviously a drug trip he went on(I can't remember if he explicitly confirms it was) you start wondering if he's messing with you, as before that the book's content was philosophical but not psychedelic. Then you realize he is absolutely serious about the insanity you're reading, and that it's crucially important to his understanding on life. It actually really helps to understand his larger body of work, and in totality is surprisingly cohesive with the more prosaic autobiographic parts and his digressions on comics. Much like Morrison himself is surprisingly functional considering he's done some serious hallucinogens.
The HBO Show was so awesome. Keith David is a legend.
ED the Happy Clown his voice is perfect for the character.
He's supposedly going to voice Spawn in the new Mortal Kombat game in March.
His voice is legendary!
41:55 I love Sal's Todd McFarlane voice. XD
The history of image and spawn is really interesting and fascinating.
Tevya Smolka Top Cow books have almost always been very good. In my opinion, the rest of Image was not that great or truly enjoyable until after the mid 2000’s.
@@Martin_TheCollector indeed and i can agree with that
@@TevyaSmolka Groovy!
I think Spawn is interesting up until a point. When they needed to find reasons to bring Al back to Earth, they should have just stopped the book.
Richard Nicholls yeah I can agree with that
I remember when you guys did spawn like 4 years ago good times
When they did back issues in a comic store 😂 good times
I remember when they talked about Spawn a second time like 4 years ago good times
Time really does go by in the blink of an eye don't it
This "rambling tangent filled episode" was both entertaining and insightful. I thoroughly enjoyed the breakdown of the _Spawnomenon_ and McFarlane in the 90s, and his machinations in the industry.
I really like these retrospective episodes of back issues that look back at particular comic book phenomenons. Its rather interesting to hear about this stuff
This was nice. The occasional breakdown of a franchise is a nice change of pace. More please!
*Old man Grievousish sitting on his porch* "Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the return of Spawn on Back Issues. You see, long ago our glorious leaders ComicPOP went by another name, that being TV Little House. In those chaotic times they covered the book called Spawn. And as suddenly as it appeared, it vanished. Never to be seen again on the show until the glorious day of Spawn #300 arrived. And what a day it was......"
Ah, it feels like just yesterday that I watched the original Spawn Back Issues. It's truly amazing how far you guys have come. This video encapsulates how much this channel has improved and at the same time kept the same charm from the get go.
The history lessons that Sal gives are alway great, especially when he does impressions.
That video of Stan Lee passive-agressively making fun of Todd McFarlene as he designs a character sounds like a master piece.
It is very good. They have them with other artists to and they are good as well
It is so funny to me that the Back Issues episode of Spawn is more about the publication and merchandising history than the actual story. This perfectly reflects what the character amounts to in the end, a great design to sell and market and have a comic as the excuse to make all these toys.
Image, as a concept, is still one of the best things that has ever happened in comics.
We can add Todd to the list of great impressions by Sal among Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and many others.
His Stan Lee is surprisingly good as well, as it’s not too over the top.
Spawn was the reason I got into comics for real lol I remember I bought a long box full of comics at a garage sale and I was so super excited
This was a really good one. Sal's Todd Mcfarlane impression cracked me up.
You guys talking about history/a moment in comics should seriously become a thing
This was simply awesome. The humor, the history, the thoroughness, and good god Sal does some rather kickass pretty damn spot-on impressions. I was picturing MacFarlanes voice from a video I recently saw about him giving his take on the look for Venom in the recent movie and then Sal hits that specific tone on the nose. And that Stan Lee impression was ridiculously on point. Also the whole bit with the "beating heart? how bout a nice red apple" was super funny cuz it's super true so often.
I was really into Spawn as a kid. I even met the real Al Simmons (Todd’s childhood friend) at a small convention where he was signing comics. Of course, they later fought in court over trademark rights.
"Was Spawn really that big of a deal?"
Oh...you sweet, summer child.
This was really intriguing, I would love to see more this type of back issues on other characters
Sal likes ICED EARTH!!!!?
Dracula was one of the first songs i learned on guitar
Iced Earth is a great band, Horror Show is an all time great album.
I love Iced Earth
@@JPeeper hard agree. Love that album. Wouldnt call them discount Metallica at all though.
When I heard him say iced earth I thought I was watching another video talking about the band. Pretty cool he mention them especially the dark saga.
I'm surprised he didn't mention that Greg Capullo did the album artwork for Korn's 3rd album 'Follow the Leader'.
The first Spawn episode was my first Back Issues! Been watching the channel religiously ever since.
Don't have time to watch this yet. Will do so as soon as possible because there is nothing more glorious than Sal's take on Spawn.
What a great episode! It would be great if you do more on this kind of episodes talking about the phenomenon instead of the comic itself. Awesome content!
I honestly like Spawn as a character, I love that he's a playable character in Mortal Kombat 11. But a lot of the stories in his books are very hit or miss. The animated series was easily the greatest thing associated with the franchise.
Todd McFarlane built an empire doing all the things he was told not to do.
My first experience of Spawn was the movie when I was 4 or 5 years old. I didn't even know Spawn was a comic until a decade or so later. I read the first 10 issues of the comic and I thought it was okay, but it's amazing that Spawn is still ongoing to this day. It's especially cool that it's a long-running comic book with a POC protagonist.
I really enjoyed this episode. I kind of like the idea of using back issues as a vehicle to revisit things and kind of contextualize the time or industry. You kind of do that already in episodes but maybe if there is enough material you could make some more like this. It's pretty great.
My god, sal read 100 cómics of spawn in 72 hours? :o
what does that do to the psyche?
Absolute champion
Great episode! I can remember picking up the first 25 issues of Spawn monthly when I was in high school. I honestly gave up reading it after issue 25 (the Marc Silvestri issue) cause I felt like it wasn’t going anywhere. I loved the 2 issues featuring Chapel (from Youngblood) just because they had to retcon the whole story when Liefeld was forced out of Image. Thanks for an episode bringing back so many memories!!
McFarlane’a career is a modern American nerdy pop culture version of Daniel Plainvew from there will be blood.
And OH MY GOD SALS MCFARLANE IMPRESSION IM WHEEZING
OMG I sent you Those Spawn toys !!! I'm so glad they got used in this episode !!!!
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Spawn was the best, most original, and by far coolest comic of the 90’s
Lol I remember watching the Spawn cartoon for the first time and instantly thinking of the Crypt Keeper. Awesome impression Sal 😆
41:41 leaving this timestamp so I don't lose one of Sal's best impressions.
22:21 on the subject of Iced Earth, they are one of my favourite metal bands of all time. Discovered them from the video game Brutal Legend and haven't looked back since
This is a great video where you guys talk about Spawn and Todd MacFarlane. The one with the maxx was also good as this one.
Despite having zero interest in Spawn before or after this video, I really enjoyed this type of back issues!
Playing Spawn: In The Demon's Hand on the Dreamcast with my brother back in the day is my best multiplayer video game memories. To this day, I can hear the announcer saying, "You've died, but it is not the end!" when I fail at something. Also, playing the game helped me realize how incredibly dumb the name OVERT-KILL was.
That intro song was fire.
I did a focus group and they said they like Spawnomenon more than PhenomeSpawn.
I remember seeing Spawn everywhere when I was a kid, but had no clue he was a comic book character at the time. I also came into across Todd McFarlane’s name via the sports action figures, but had no clue he was a comic book artist back then.
I’ve honestly never read any of the comics before but I have always thought the character design looked pretty dope.
Iced Earth has made some incredible concept albums and I love that The Dark Saga has comic art. Also love Horror Show and A Glorious Burden. Who doesn't love a 23 minute long song about The Battle of Gettysburg?
Please do more videos like this. I'll watch every single one
Sal, the more I watch your videos the more I think you're my spirit animal! I also read Spawn from issue 1 to 100 and the stories you mentioned in that run are the ones I remember too. It's almost creepy! LOL
I think you guys just created a new idea for another show.
I would be so down for more videos of Sal explaining the history of characters and their creators.
My favorite Spawn was Movie Spawn because I had the toy.
This is amazing. It's like all of back issues, the good, the bad and the ugly, elseworlds exchange and more was building up to this new formula.
SPAWN IS BACK ON COMICPOP
The crazy thing to me about Spawn is that how it just followed the trajectory of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
I love this episode. I love having a history of the character and the comicpop gang’s opinions on it. Very funny episode and a personal one
This is one of my favorite episodes you guys have ever done I like this Causal History kind of thing
I really like this back issues retrospective you guys should do more of this maybe a separate series...
I’m glad you did the episode on image and spawn as brands. I find it really interesting and I’ve wanted a competent unbiased docu on the company forever
This is one of my favorite Back Issues to date.
Wait so can Grant Morrison technically use Anti Spawn in Marvel or DC because they technically own the character, imagine how mad Todd would get lol.
A fantastic video guys. You should be really proud of this one.
I love the idea of Back issues History Of. I also really enjoyed the throwback since I've binge-watched the Back Issues playlist from your very first episodes where you're standing in the kitchen. This history vid was great to listen to, especially with Sal's thrown in thoughts. The detail that it went into and how it broke down the potential thoughts behind every decision was brilliant.
A bit of a general feedback outside of how good this episode was - I know Back Issues is more a fun romp through a story that's very much flavoured by how whoever is in the middle feels on the character/story rather than an in-depth analysis of the comics and I really do enjoy this style of presenting, but there are times when I do wish Ben toned down how often he does the Jock-jokes. There are some Back Issues where it seems like he's on a huge roll and can't stop wisecracking and dirtying it up and no matter how funny that can be, it wears thin a little on a comic discussion show.
I like the fucked up stories where people do fucked up things and spawn then comes and fucks them up, I like that that todd want to make him a boogeyman.
Totally down for more episodes of creator/industry history.
This is a great theme for content. I really enjoyed this.
The three criminal teens story at 39:00 was one of my favorites when I was a kid
I like how it's basically more about Todd McFarlane than Spawn
The part at 41:43 where Sal does the impression of Todd McFarlane doing those horribly cringey opens to the series is absolutely hilarious.
2:16 What about a Phe-SPAWN-anon?
What a cool episode! I would LOVE more like this, or even like a Comics History show. Thanks for this one guys!
Todd MacFarlane being a Twilight Zone-esque narrator is the best idea I've heard for the Spawn movie.
Love this episode. It's very much like the Maxx episode, which I absolutely loved as well. I'm totally cool with this format for some of the phenomenon characters
Would you do a Back Issues on Spider-Man: Life Story when the TPB comes out?
Good news.
Every Spawn comic I read, I read in Keith David’s voice. It’s the same with Kevin Conroy as Batman in every Batman comic. It would have been awesome if Keith and Kevin collaborated for a Batman/ Spawn movie. Sal’s impression of Todd McFarlene is spot on🤣😂👊🏾👊🏾💙
Oh Sal! Can't you imagine it...2024....A Best of the Worst spotlight episode, the newest film ever to be on the show, 2022's Spawn...written and directed by Todd MacFarlane, the near perfect combination that brought us GETEVEN, Alien Private Eye, and the films of Breen.... it'll be a glorious day my friend!
Sal, you bastard. I was watching this next to my girlfriend while she slept and your Todd impression made me burst out in manic cackling because I grew up with that show. Now, I have to explain to her why I was going nuts at 4 a.m..
This is so good!
I totally get these guys...I feel like I just had a "going full circle" moment thanks to this video.
I'm a better man now
this feels like an hour long segment of tangent, I like it!
Three minutes in and I’m thinking “how many times can Sal say the word phenomenon?”
Don’t know who these guys are but I ended up watching the entire hour-plus video because I wanted to catch up on Spawn issues since late 90s (when I stopped reading it). This was so unexpectedly entertaining. 🤓
This was PHENOMESPAWN episode!
Tons of highlights for me...when Spawn kills Violator, when Spawn confronts Mammon, killing Kincaid, killing Overtkill, killing Tiffany, I loved his transformation and look after #50, the medieval hellspawn 2 parter I think issues #16 and #17...just LOVE the series ❤️
ICED EARTH! DARK SAGA! YES! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, SAL, FOR TALKING ABOUT ICED EARTH'S ALBUM, DARK SAGA!
P.S. GREAT McFarlane impression, Sal. And I would LOVE if ComicPOP did more vids discussing comic book history like you all did in this vid.
I'm totally down with more back issues like this. Going over the history of things
Sooo close to having Spawn 300 & Backissues 300
Do you know what number we're at now?
DM0M0 the exact number no. But they’ve got like almost 300 in the playlist 😂
I only read the first 24 or so issues of Spawn, back when I was like 12 or something, and I remember liking them quite a bit, then trying to revisit them and being like "man, Macfarlane" cannot write.
But honestly, some of these random one-off issues your describing where every issue is just about Spawn giving some different variety of bad person their comeuppance is very intriguing to me--sort of sounds like an EC anthology horror vibe.
Big fan of you giving histories of characters. Hope its the first of many
thank you for doing a video on my most favorite comic book superhero
Funny story I found you guys through the original Spawn video
This is one of the best back issues ever
That tales from the crypt bit was hilarious.
This is one of the best and most entertaining back issues ever
Awesome episode!!!
LOVE THIS. I was at the perfect age when Spawn came out to be totally down and all in. My old AOL Email is still MeSpawn. Hahahaha
Also, favorite era is when he got the Huge Boot.
I’m really digging episodes like this and The Maxx, where it’s more about the history of the character than the less-than-stellar story.