When people talk about great animated series based on comic books, there's always some guy wearing a stained Iron Maiden t-shirt who brings up Spawn. But Spawn isn't even based on a good comic book.
Spawn is a joke. A symbol of everything that's wrong about 90s pop culture. Everything about Spawn is is stupid. The comic book is badly written trash, the live action movie is worse than ingrown toenails...he's just a combination of Spider-Man, Batman and Venom with a more satanic version of The Prowler's costume. The chains and parts of his origin are stolen from Ghost Rider, and his worst enemy is a Clown. How original.
The series is everything the comic book was, but worse. It's even darker. Pornographic sex and violence, profanity and some really sick stuff I don't even want to mention. They should have called it "Try Hard: The Animated Series". The show tries so hard to be adult, it's almost cute. Like watching eight year old boys trying to impress their big brothers.
I think it's sad that a bunch of underpaid animators had to suffer carpal tunnel syndrome drawing cels for this garbage. That the voice actors got sore throats from all the growling. What a waste of talent...why can't people just make meaningful stuff instead of nihilistic trash like this? Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is a much better choice you want a good animated movie for adults.
Spawn doesn't deserve a new animated series, or the new movie Todd McFarlane has talked about ever since man invented the wheel. Spawn can go back to hell and stay there.
(Zero stars)
Spawn is a joke. A symbol of everything that's wrong about 90s pop culture. Everything about Spawn is is stupid. The comic book is badly written trash, the live action movie is worse than ingrown toenails...he's just a combination of Spider-Man, Batman and Venom with a more satanic version of The Prowler's costume. The chains and parts of his origin are stolen from Ghost Rider, and his worst enemy is a Clown. How original.
The series is everything the comic book was, but worse. It's even darker. Pornographic sex and violence, profanity and some really sick stuff I don't even want to mention. They should have called it "Try Hard: The Animated Series". The show tries so hard to be adult, it's almost cute. Like watching eight year old boys trying to impress their big brothers.
I think it's sad that a bunch of underpaid animators had to suffer carpal tunnel syndrome drawing cels for this garbage. That the voice actors got sore throats from all the growling. What a waste of talent...why can't people just make meaningful stuff instead of nihilistic trash like this? Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is a much better choice you want a good animated movie for adults.
Spawn doesn't deserve a new animated series, or the new movie Todd McFarlane has talked about ever since man invented the wheel. Spawn can go back to hell and stay there.
(Zero stars)