Todd is his own worst enemy though. The HBO show only worked because other writers and animators gave him pushback, cutting out all the needless bullshit that plagues Spawn comics. Hell if you ask me most of Spawn's actual reading material is shit. The majority is just Al whining about WANDA in an alley
Anyone else feel like Spawn would have more cultural significance, popularity...
Easton Martin
Caleb Bennett
>or perhaps acknowledged that he's overly edgy in a tongue in cheek way, then maybe he'd get some new life
That's exactly why I don't like Lobo, and in that respect I'm glad Spawn isn't getting absorbed and upgraded anytime soon. Just because something seems edgy doesn't mean it has to be self aware about it. Edgy is just a concept. You can take edgy away but it doesn't mean real kids aren't getting raped every day.
Nathaniel Watson
Making Spawn tongue-in-cheek would make it exhausting. We have a enough of those, like you said.
Adam Jenkins
Spawn was the most popular before Todd McFarlane didn’t retcon spawn lore to make heaven and god evil. Spawn was written the best when it was an accidental borderline edgy Christian comic similar to Doom slayer in the doom reboot. But Todd pulled Alan Moore and got butthurt over religious people liking spawn. P.S speaking of pulling an Alan Moore believe it or not far cry 5 was supposed to be a pro-gun control FPS with anti-prepper themes. All fry cry 5 partisans then backfired.
Justin Perez
The difference is that Lobo was always a parody character whereas Todd sees Spawn as a very straight-faced "dark" character. Though he has allowed people to do goofy takes on Spawn off and on.
Parker James
>retcon spawn lore to make heaven and god evil.
That shit isn't a retcon, it's in there as soon as angels show up.
David Sanders
>whereas Todd sees Spawn as a very straight-faced "dark" character
Yes, and there's literally nothing wrong with that. Not everything needs to be a parody of itself.
Jacob Hill
But here's the think, if he was just an asset of DC or Marvel, there's no reason to bring him specifically back compared to their many other, similar characters. DC and Mortal Kombat are owned by the same company, yet SPAWN getting in their is a big deal. If Spawn was in DC, I guarantee you he wouldn't be in MK, because he'd be a small fish in a big pond. Spawn is McFarlane's big fish.
Asher Lee
I think Spawn's recent scarcity is part of what makes his appearance in MK so exciting.
Ryan Long
Original series issues 1-100(Origins collection 1-17), then stop, that's what most fans say.
Dark Horror also looks pretty cool.