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Fade Out Lines Avener Rework. Hoop Dreams Ralph Myerz mix. We also get two issues from the Claremont X-Men run immediately following the Phoenix saga, one of which is a "danger room turns evil" story, and the other of which is a pretty good Alpha Flight set up. The collection ends with some great concept art, unused pages, parodies, etc. Not perfect volume, but pretty cool--definitely can't wait to continue the Claremont X-Men run proper. Feb 05, Tony Romine rated it liked it. There is also a healthy portion of extras including original character sketches and panel art.
After their 5 year long hiatus, the X-Men returned in with Giant-Sized X-Men and it was like a shotgun blast to the original series. The new team consisted of a couple original members Cyclops and Jean Grey and introduced the world to what are now classic X-Men staples: Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, Banshee, and Nightcrawler. This new team was exactly what the series needed: The most important part is that along with this new X-Men lineup came a new writer Chris Claremont, whose work would set the tone of the series for a long time and he would remain the primary writer for the X-Men for almost 20 years.
What we get in this collection are his first 17 issues where we get to know these new characters and see the seeds of future storylines planted. Some of the comics are a bit confusing, boring, and tedious cough The artwork is incredible, the best of the classic issues. All in all though, it's a good collection and will definitely have you eager for more. Essential reading for any X-Men fan. Nov 14, Carl rated it really liked it. A large collection of the beginnings of the new X-men and the start of Chris Claremont's classic run writing the x-men- first with Dave Cockrum and then with John Byrne handling the artistic duties.
What surprised me was how raw the early writing was. Claremont was clearly thrown into the deep end of the pool and forced to sink or swim. Many of the early issues are filled with hokey 7 A large collection of the beginnings of the new X-men and the start of Chris Claremont's classic run writing the x-men- first with Dave Cockrum and then with John Byrne handling the artistic duties. Many of the early issues are filled with hokey 70's dialogue and it was criminal that the prejudices of the time towards Native Americans and the lack of understanding of just how deep and rich their cultural heritage fed into the abysmal handling of Thunderbird character.
By the time Byrne arrives in issue , The change in Claremont's writing is astounding. The 70's cheese is gone and the series begins to show what would become a genre changing run of High quality writing and stunning artwork. I would think that all of this would be old hat because it's replayed and referenced so frequently.
But darned if it's not good even if I can't fully explain why and even if Thunderbird can only be pitied as a severe PTSD case rather than admired as he's written as someone with no sense of proportion. As, actually, are Sunfire and Wolverine. But Sunfire abandons the team early and Wolverine never follows through on any of his rage. He's as neutered as the 90's cartoon version relative to his bo I would think that all of this would be old hat because it's replayed and referenced so frequently.
He's as neutered as the 90's cartoon version relative to his bombast. Also, had one of the more interesting "extras" ever used to pad a book. May 19, L. The line-up of the X-men fluctuates at first. Cyclops is the only original member to stick around. Sunfire leaves after only one adventure. Jean Grey leaves but then pops back up so we can see how she's turned into the Phoenix. What isn't explained, though, is how Jean could afford that sweet, sweet New York apartment.
Sure, Misty Knight is her room mate, but I don't think Misty makes enough to even afford to pay for a closet in this Greenwich loft, let alone half the The line-up of the X-men fluctuates at first. Sure, Misty Knight is her room mate, but I don't think Misty makes enough to even afford to pay for a closet in this Greenwich loft, let alone half the rent. Unless Jean is using her mental powers to "convince" the landlord to set the rent at five bucks a month. It's what I would do. Jan 16, Lloyd rated it really liked it. This volume is where the "new" X-Men got started. If you hear people talk of the Chris Claremont run - this is where you begin.
The Dave Cockrum art "era" seemed to go by really fast this time around. Hell, ALL this stuff looked great if you ask me. I'm really enjoying reliving my old, teenage soap opera fun, dropping in on these characters again - all these years later. I'm moving on to This volume is where the "new" X-Men got started. I'm moving on to the next round of stories next! Oct 10, Jeff Bleyle rated it really liked it. Started reading as a homage to the recently departed Len Wein creator of Wolverine and the reboot of the X-Men recounted in this volume.
Generally enjoyable though stories are a bit dated and some of the stories, particularly the SpiderMan team ups, have only the most marginal continuity with the overall story. Generally enjoyed this glimpse into what made this series one of the most popular comic series of the late 20th Century. This confrontation almost kills Spawn, but he is able to emerge victorious. He is again hunted by Angela and fights the angelic warrior, Anti-Spawn a.
After a confrontation with the Redeemer, Spawn's suit mutated and became more advanced. Its new cape and chains were able to shape shift into different things to confuse his opponents. The cape now looked slightly torn, and the costume had lost its red glow, having evolved to what is now black and white. Spawn's boots and gloves had also changed, having been replaced with spikes. Spawn used his new equipment to slash off the Redeemer's hand and defeat him.
Spawn thought that the battle was over until he met someone more powerful than The Redeemer known as the Freak. Spawn fought with the Freak but was caught unaware by the Freak's ability to create nightmares, which he did to torture Spawn with his past. During the battle, a creature appearing to have the original appearance of Spawn fights other beings and creatures and knocks out Spawn. When Spawn awakens, the creature tells him that ever since the metamorphosis, the suit will feed off of souls.
Spawn later finds himself in New York City. After this, Tony Twist sends a reprogrammed Overt-Kill after Terry, blaming him for the recent attacks on the mob, and Spawn is forced to reveal his identity while saving his friend. However, it is a well-placed shot from Twitch Williams that brings down Overt-Kill. He would later bring back his friend Bobby after he was killed in another fight with Chapel. Spawn would be a part of Angela's trial and later traveled to the South and had an encounter with the KKK and an abusive father of two boys.
When he returned to New York, he was attacked by a new Redeemer. This caused his costume to evolve and defeat the Redeemer with its new-found power. After another encounter with the Curse, the suit began to go wild, and, after saving Terry from cancer, sent him to Hell, but Malebolgia sent him back with full control of the suit. While wearing it, the host assumes a dominant role over his suit.
His shroud, spikes, chains, and skulls are all part of an organism bonded to his central nervous system that will protect Spawn even if he is unconscious. As Spawn struggled to find a way to get rid of Hell's control and regain control, he noticed that the attacks were coming from both Heaven and Hell.
Due to increasing attacks, Spawn began to lose himself to evil. However, thanks to the arrival of the Heap, an emissary of the Greenworld, he was able to regain his goal. Greenworld is a dimension whose power was equal to both Heaven's and Hell's, which Spawn had never faced before. They gave new powers to Spawn so he could better understand the world and its people, [15] which allowed him to overcome the worst from both Heaven and Hell. Though these powers were not really known, they seem to give control of all the elements around the world.
It was around this time that Spawn battled the powerful god Urizen. Spawn once stopped a cult from summoning Urizen, but this time he had been summoned by two gate opener demons named Ab and Zab. Urizen was causing massive destruction to the world and after losing a battle to him, Spawn came back and used his new abilities to make the Earth itself swallow Urizen and imprison him.
It was explained that the Greenworld had no interest in the war of Heaven and Hell, but was getting frustrated with the destruction that it brought. This caused Earth "pain", and later Spawn became aware of it. Spawn did not change his powers though, but rather, "listened" to the Earth, until being attacked by Urizen. After recovering, Spawn learns that the Greenworld had imbued him with a gift, which he uses to contain Urizen by splitting the ground and imprisoning him inside the earth.
After his battle, Spawn learned that Malebolgia had caused Urizen's release in an attempt to start Armageddon and conquer the forces of Heaven. Spawn and Angela then journeyed to Hell to stop him. During the battle, Angela managed to mortally wound Malebolgia but gets killed by him in retaliation. Consumed with anger, Spawn takes Malebolgia's head. Upon killing Malebolgia, Spawn learns that Hell's throne is rightfully his, offered to him by the demon Mammon.
Though he refuses the offer, Spawn eventually deliberates with his teacher Cog and decides to turn Hell into a new paradise. During this act, Cog reveals that he is, in reality, the biblical Cain , who was the first person to go to Hell, having murdered his own brother in envy.
His true goal had always been to take over Hell and use a Hellspawn to do it. Having betrayed Spawn, Cog took the throne for himself, but gave his former student his human form back, a parting gift. After returning, he meets a young Wiccan named Nyx. With her help, he regains his suit, though he remains weaker than before due to still having a human form.
However, Mammon tricks and betrays Nyx and usurps her control over Spawn's union with his suit, removing all of Spawn's past memories in the process. With no memory, Spawn wanders the Earth, and during this time releases a group of angels who are called the Forgotten and take no sides in the war between Heaven and Hell. He discovers that Mammon is a member of the Fallen who was sent to Hell. Spawn regains his memories thanks to the power of the Greenworld. His suit also evolves once more and now it seems one with his body, but as time progresses, he begins to hate himself. Both Heaven and Hell have rejected him and he now stays in an abandoned warehouse as maggots and other insects crawl inside his body as he wonders what he should do.
His first thought is to return to the Dead Zone, although it is Heaven's territory and a Hellspawn wouldn't be welcomed. Immediately upon entering, Spawn is confronted by the Disciple, who promptly greets him by tearing his brain out and throwing his heart into the Greenworld whilst Spawn's body is thrown to Hell. Spawn is then captured and tortured by Mammon so he can understand the secrets inside him. When Spawn's heart fell to the Greenworld, a soul was freed, as all the souls that died within the hour Al died went into the Spawn suit thus why Malebolgia could not control Spawn.
Chris meets with his mother once more as the Man of Miracles instructed him and then he travels to hell along with Sam Burke and Twitch Williams to rescue Spawn from Mammon. Spawn escapes and when he returns to Earth, signs of Armageddon begin to appear; Spawn begins looking for a way to stop it. Spawn discovers that Wanda's twin children are responsible.
He stops them from killing their entire family but is unable to destroy them. Zera reveals that Jake is God and Katie is Satan. Spawn finds out that the Mother removed them of their powers and positions and sent them to Earth due to their hatred of each other and constant fighting. She tells him he cannot stop Armageddon, but he has the potential to be elevated to the power of a god and preserve the human race.
He has to eat a piece of Forbidden Fruit from the Garden of Eden to gain such power. She tells Spawn he must prove himself first and has to fight against The Disciple. His power is also weakened as a demon is never to enter the Garden and it has taken the form of a counter starting at 9: However, with guidance from Cyan, he defeats all the Disciples except for the last, Judas, who Cyan tells him not to kill. Judas then stabs him in the heart, but the Mother gives Spawn a piece of the fruit and resurrects him. He gains a more angelic form and greater power.
He returns to Earth, finding it destroyed by the Four Horsemen and all the humans dead and angels and demons in their place, waiting to fight in the final battle. After defeating Zera, he finds dead warriors of Heaven; one of them is Granny Blake, having been betrayed by her faith. Spawn then battles the forces of Satan and God.
He uses all the power given to him by the Mother to destroy the forces of Heaven and Hell and even all humanity. He has stopped Armageddon by taking away their armies; he is then killed by the two who then fight alone on Earth. However, Spawn comes back and, by opening himself to the power of the Mother, resurrects everyone with the knowledge of what happened. He left God and Satan to fight in their own little world and closed the doors to Heaven, Hell, and Earth. He asked to be turned into a human again by the Mother, but later asked to once again become a Hellspawn when he remembered that, prior to his first death as Al Simmons, he had actually beaten Wanda to cause her to miscarry their child so that he could focus on his "work", causing him to conclude that he had always been a monster and did not deserve to try and be human again.
After a series of odd murders, Spawn finds that the Clown has come back, possessing the body of a man named Barney Saunders. It was revealed that Saunders was having an affair with a woman named Wilma Barbara and got trapped in a garbage chute when he was trying to hide from her husband.
He was there for some time until Spawn destroyed and remade the world. He was rescued by the Clown so he could use his body for himself. He then brought out the dark urges inside the tenants of an apartment building and used this to form a doorway to Hell to bring back his brothers.
However, before he could form a portal, Wilma showed up and his love for her allowed Saunders to take back control. He then intended to close the portal by going through it, but he took Wilma with him due to being angry over her leaving him in the chute. Zera reappeared; only her head survived and she was suspended in a jar.
Spawn was summoned by a voodoo priestess named Mambo Suzanne.
Zera was attempting to take over Nyx's body and fight Spawn, but she was killed when Suzanne used their fighting as a distraction and threw her head into the streets where it was eaten by demon dogs. Nyx was freed and she and Spawn became friends again. Ab and Zab create a hell where visitors are forced to view their deepest fears due to demons called sin eaters that feed on guilt from the visitors, then making them face the evil that they had ever done.
A woman who was in the house both had delusions of their fear caused by the sin eaters. They fed on the guilt, giving them more power, when Spawn confronted Ab and Zab.
The comic book prints were released on standard paper as opposed to the original glossy paper from Image comics. This confrontation almost kills Spawn, but he is able to emerge victorious. Retrieved from " https: Issue 9 was reprinted for the first time since the lawsuit was filed in the hardcover edition of Spawn Origins: Volume five is even better than the four preceding volumes, which is a very hard bar to hit. Spawn finds out that the Mother removed them of their powers and positions and sent them to Earth due to their hatred of each other and constant fighting.
He was faced with his own sin against Wanda and his unborn child. Spawn was unable to break free from the guilt and was slowly fed on by a sin eater. When Nyx interfered, he was able to break the sin eater illusion. Nyx realized that he was getting more powerful. Spawn breaks all the others illusions; then he comes across one he learns is Albert Simmons' brother, Richard, who was going through his worst sin Spawn who was still not yet recovering from all those memories as Albert Simmons.
Spawn decides to allow Richard to feel his sins.