- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (23 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185286835X
- ISBN-13: 978-1852868352
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 16.6 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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The lethal warrior-angel from "Spawn: Evolution" goes on trial for her life. Spawn and Angela may have met originally as the deadliest of adversaries, but now Spawn finds himself coming to her defence when she is accused of high treason, and in danger of execution by her fellow angels.
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After writing mostly Fantasy-influenced stories with throlls, faeries and wizards which worked out good for him, Neil Gaiman takes a risk here with the further creation of a character who later turns out to be one of the most popular members of the cast of a superhero title according to many. I myself take quite some characters over her (Billy Kincaid, Violator, Jason Wynn) but as a character that's supposed to be the perfect opposite of the Hellspawn she's indeed a very satisfying new (at the time) character. Luckily most of the story stages in Heaven and Hell, places Gaiman is familiair with since he explored them many times over already and THAT shows. His writing is being aided by the art of Greg Capullo who I think started here in showing himself to be worthy to take up drawing Spawn after McFarlane. It's obviously NOT the perfected art Capullo shows of later when he gets to draw 'Spawn' yet though, to be honest. I don't have a specific word for it but it's showing that typical "Image-look' that most Image books had in their early days.
About the story: The Angelic warrior Angela is celebrating her 100.000th birthday in her own unique fashion when all of a sudden the Hordes of Heaven come to place her under arrest. She's being put on trial for treason and conspiring with a Hellspawn (See the events in Spawn #9 to see what happened), among other things. It soon becomes clear to most that she's being set up and her friends attempt to help her. In doing so they need to get Spawn from earth and take him to heaven un-noticed to testify for Angela, the woman who once tried to kill him.
This story takes place right after #10 and is really a very good enhancement to the early days of the ongoing Spawn series. In saying that I'm also saying that it's definately NOT for people who haven't been reading the first 10 issues of Spawn, or at least #9 and 10 where the first Spawn/Angela meeting takes place. It explains a lot about some changes Angela went through between #9 and the later issues, which aren't addressed in the Spawn series itself. So when you've been a Spawn reader you must surely get this because it will only make your experience and understanding of Angela better, because it ties up some loose ends. If you haven't you should think about getting Spawn #9 and 10 first (#9,10 + the Angela minies makes a perfectly good stand-alone story without you having to go further into Spawn afterwards), or not get Angela at all. The story won't make sense otherwise.
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This is Gaiman storytelling and featuring themes which feature elsewhere in his work, such as a mysterious and magical spear (which featured again in Neverwhere), archetypes, including the warrior, soldier and hunter (the female warrior-hunter character featured again in Neverwhere too) and characters developing or out-growing the identity they begin the story with (like in Neverwhere), this not necessarily being a move from the inferior to the superior but rather a transformation, becoming something different.
It is a story from within the Spawn universe, the character of Spawn and his sembiotic "living" costume imbued with defences and powers is present, the back story of which is nicely presented in synopsis within the caption boxes but it is really a tale of heaven and the angels, rather than the devils and Hellspawn. The angels are all paragons of the female form, scantily clad, physically mighty and striking a pose in almost every page. However, its all tastefully done and to a certain extent I suspected was treating this all with good humour and probably a wry sense of its likely audience of comic reading adolescent males.
The main protagonist is Angela, an angelic opponent of Spawn, who has been set up in an internal power struggle within the heavenly power structure, Spawn is involved by well meaning but bungling friends to try and exhonourate Angela of blame, there is a very action packed (but also corny romantic) interlude when the two opponents are thrown together in such a way as to make alliance the best idea and finally the plot against Angela is explained, she makes a choice then as to what she will do from there and decides on something anomalous in the Spawn universe.
The freelance neither there-nor here conclusions probably feature a lot of the cultural background of the time this was originally published, when binary opposites were considered old fashioned, fusion and cross overs or constant drive for novelty, originality, choice where en vogue. It also in some ways reflects the history of Spawn as a phenomenon too, when the artists and writers, essentially the creators, were aiming to come up with something new, not Marvel, nor DC but which still managed to resemble each (I've always thought that Spawn was some crazy Batman, Spiderman, Punisher, Ghost Rider cross over, heralded also by earlier stories still like Son of Satan and Satana).
If you are a fan of Gaiman or Spawn I would recommend this, if you are unfamiliar with the series or new to Spawn you can read this without requiring knowledge of the earlier comics or story arcs, I would even recommend it if you are familiar with the legion of action figures and small industry which were more or less launched following the success of these comics. Great stuff.
It is a story from within the Spawn universe, the character of Spawn and his sembiotic "living" costume imbued with defences and powers is present, the back story of which is nicely presented in synopsis within the caption boxes but it is really a tale of heaven and the angels, rather than the devils and Hellspawn. The angels are all paragons of the female form, scantily clad, physically mighty and striking a pose in almost every page. However, its all tastefully done and to a certain extent I suspected was treating this all with good humour and probably a wry sense of its likely audience of comic reading adolescent males.
The main protagonist is Angela, an angelic opponent of Spawn, who has been set up in an internal power struggle within the heavenly power structure, Spawn is involved by well meaning but bungling friends to try and exhonourate Angela of blame, there is a very action packed (but also corny romantic) interlude when the two opponents are thrown together in such a way as to make alliance the best idea and finally the plot against Angela is explained, she makes a choice then as to what she will do from there and decides on something anomalous in the Spawn universe.
The freelance neither there-nor here conclusions probably feature a lot of the cultural background of the time this was originally published, when binary opposites were considered old fashioned, fusion and cross overs or constant drive for novelty, originality, choice where en vogue. It also in some ways reflects the history of Spawn as a phenomenon too, when the artists and writers, essentially the creators, were aiming to come up with something new, not Marvel, nor DC but which still managed to resemble each (I've always thought that Spawn was some crazy Batman, Spiderman, Punisher, Ghost Rider cross over, heralded also by earlier stories still like Son of Satan and Satana).
If you are a fan of Gaiman or Spawn I would recommend this, if you are unfamiliar with the series or new to Spawn you can read this without requiring knowledge of the earlier comics or story arcs, I would even recommend it if you are familiar with the legion of action figures and small industry which were more or less launched following the success of these comics. Great stuff.
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This is a filler story between two of the main spawn books from about a decade ago, explains how spawn goes to heven, meets an angel, gets funky and somehow fails to develop as a character or learn from his experiences.
If you have the rest it's a good addition as the story does fill in blanks and if you like looking at drawings of improbably proportioned ladies then it's a winner.
It is by no means a classic though, also, being made by the same company who print well with good inks on nice paper but seem to not understand how to make a book that doesn't fall apart, Reading carefully and not being careless still yeilds after maybe the second read clumps of pages just falling out or becoming loose.
If you have the rest it's a good addition as the story does fill in blanks and if you like looking at drawings of improbably proportioned ladies then it's a winner.
It is by no means a classic though, also, being made by the same company who print well with good inks on nice paper but seem to not understand how to make a book that doesn't fall apart, Reading carefully and not being careless still yeilds after maybe the second read clumps of pages just falling out or becoming loose.
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Artwork out of this world
Artwork is amazing with an average story line. Not typical spawn but makes an interesting alternative.
Published on 16 May 2001
Brilliant Spawn spin-off
This story is written by Neil Gaiman (creator of the Sandman), which means that my expectations were very high. I was not disappointed. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2001
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