A Look Back at Todd McFarlane's SPAWN!
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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.
This episode was just a big Tangent and I loved 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
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!
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
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
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
41:55 I love Sal's Todd McFarlane voice. XD
41:41 I absolutely love it when Ben hits the nail on the head without knowing it
*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......"
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.
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.
*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.
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!
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'.
Image, as a concept, is still one of the best things that has ever happened in comics.
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.
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.
You guys talking about history/a moment in comics should seriously become a thing
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 a really good one. Sal's Todd Mcfarlane impression cracked me up.
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.
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.
And OH MY GOD SALS MCFARLANE IMPRESSION IM WHEEZING
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
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 did a focus group and they said they like Spawnomenon more than PhenomeSpawn.
Spawn was the best, most original, and by far coolest comic of the 90’s
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.
My god, sal read 100 cómics of spawn in 72 hours? :o
what does that do to the psyche?
Absolute champion
Would you do a Back Issues on Spider-Man: Life Story when the TPB comes out?
Good news.
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.
This was really intriguing, I would love to see more this type of back issues on other characters
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.
Despite having zero interest in Spawn before or after this video, I really enjoyed this type of back issues!
Lol I remember watching the Spawn cartoon for the first time and instantly thinking of the Crypt Keeper. Awesome impression Sal 😆
Totally down for more episodes of creator/industry history.
I like how it's basically more about Todd McFarlane than Spawn
The crazy thing to me about Spawn is that how it just followed the trajectory of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
OMG I sent you Those Spawn toys !!! I'm so glad they got used in this episode !!!!
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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.
The first Spawn episode was my first Back Issues! Been watching the channel religiously ever since.
My favorite version of Spawn is Venom.
SPAWN IS BACK ON COMICPOP
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!
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!
Three minutes in and I’m thinking “how many times can Sal say the word phenomenon?”
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.
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 😂
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.
Todd MacFarlane being a Twilight Zone-esque narrator is the best idea I've heard for the Spawn movie.
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?
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!!
Funny story I found you guys through the original Spawn video
McFarlane’a career is a modern American nerdy pop culture version of Daniel Plainvew from there will be blood.
Spawn-nomenon works.
That tales from the crypt bit was hilarious.
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!
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
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 remember back in the day when they were in the comic shop
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 never got into the comics...but did see the movie and enjoy the HBO cartoon.
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 ❤️
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
I really like this back issues retrospective you guys should do more of this maybe a separate series...
Oh man 😭 iced earth dark saga that takes me back to middle school...."a pawn in Lucifer's game ...am I." 🤘
I would highly recommend checking out iced earth's days of purgatory album also.
41:41 leaving this timestamp so I don't lose one of Sal's best impressions.
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.
That Iced Earth album is still a banger to this day.
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.
Undoubtedly, I think Spawn was best in his animated show. The plot wasn't too thick nor lacking, the animation was great, and it showed Spawn in a kinda "best of both worlds" view where he can double-up as this horrifying thing of nature and a superhero. The Dark Horror comic line (issue 276-282) was also great, in my opinion, and I do really like the angle their going with in recent books of Spawn being at war with heaven and hell simultaneously. I think Spawn just oozes potential as a character.
Yes, I know I'm 4 years late to the game, but I would still like to cast my vote for "phenomespawn".
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
Please do more videos like this. I'll watch every single one
I actually found a comic album in a hoarder house with 2 mint condition first printings of Spawn #1, two first printings of Wildstar #1, two firat printings of Darker Image #1, and another two first printings of Wildcats #1 alongside some trading cards and stuff it's pretty dope I need to get em graded.
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..
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 remember when y'all were tv little house talking about spawn.
nostalgic
i love the idea of a detective story like bone collector mixed with insidious part one with sam & twitch, & spawn be the guy behined the murders but all the victims are bad people
The toys with the comic book were so dope
The section where you all ate joking about Spawn using a copy machine was hilarious. I can imagine Spawn getting frustrated with the copy machine like that scene if Office Space Lol.
The three criminal teens story at 39:00 was one of my favorites when I was a kid
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
oh my god i totally had the mortal kombat film soundtrack when I was 14 or 15 when it came out too Ben
McFarlane has said his end goal has been to write and direct a spawn movie (another one)
I don't know if someone aready said that, but McFarlend made an arthernate logo for the Edmonton Oilers (his favourite hockey team) in the early 2000's. The team reuse it for their Reverse Retro this year.
You guys should do a video where you're all talking about The Crow comic by James O'barr. So that viewers could get in to the details of the crow comic, creator and the movie itself.
Lol there’s definitely some very good Spawn tales (outside the main title too). Besides Greg Capullo, other amazing artists have certainly aided the character’s mythology. I love Jason Shawn Alexander’s art especially! Check out any of the work he’s done for Image & DC. He’s perfect for Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, or Dr Strange. Like big time!
Gotta say: I recently read the first 50 issues, and I wish there were more of the episodic self-contained episodes earlier on. The overall narrative was sometimes a bit mind-numbing, and the breaks where there were unrelated tangent issues were kind of refreshing