McFarlane Spawn

AceofKnaves said:
The best media expression of Spawn is still the animated series.
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Which I've still never watched. I never had cable when it was on and by the time I did I'd matriculated out of active Spawn fandom. Did it have an ending or did it just sort of get cancelled?
 
To be fair, it's not like the comic, which is STILL ongoing, ever got any kind of satisfying conclusion either. It just progressively got weirder and stupider when it became clear no one knew where this story should go.
 
Damien said:
To be fair, it's not like the comic, which is STILL ongoing, ever got any kind of satisfying conclusion either. It just progressively got weirder and stupider when it became clear no one knew where this story should go.
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I like the iconography and Sourcebook Lore of Spawn more than I ever liked Spawn proper.

I always thought the toy line did it best in the 90s giving you cool characters and concepts and you could do whatever with it. Remember the Total Chaos line? Bring that back. A Rhino in Iron Man armor would sell gangbusters if Third Party did it.

One Christmas my dad surprised me with Widowmaker, which I didn't even know existed, but he had seen at some comic shop the next city over while Christmas shopping. Wish Todd would update her.
 
altcunningham said:
I like the iconography and Sourcebook Lore of Spawn more than I ever liked Spawn proper.

I always thought the toy line did it best in the 90s giving you cool characters and concepts and you could do whatever with it. Remember the Total Chaos line? Bring that back. A Rhino in Iron Man armor would sell gangbusters if Third Party did it.

One Christmas my dad surprised me with Widowmaker, which I didn't even know existed, but he had seen at some comic shop the next city over while Christmas shopping. Wish Todd would update her.
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Totally agree with all of this. The baseline lore of Spawn is pretty fucking awesome. And I'd even say that the first couple of years' of Spawn content do a great job of selling you on what can be done with that fantasy. But it definitely went off the fuckin' rails, and when it did it did it HARD.
Total Chaos was practically groundbreaking in just being like 'what if we made these cool, kind of psychotic looking toys and marketed them to kids?' Love it. They're great. That's the kind of thing I hoped Todd would start doing again when he got back into making actual toys. But clearly re-exploring his old toy catalogue wasn't a priority for him.
 
I think Total Chaos wave 1 came out the summer after I graduated high school? I remember playing with the crazy pirate hunchback cyborg guy while sitting and waiting to go on at my final singing concert with my coach before leaving for college. I definitely got some “what the fuck?!?” looks from some church people (concert was in a church) as to why this beefy 18 year old guy was fiddling around with a hideous monster toy
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altcunningham said:
I always thought the toy line did it best in the 90s giving you cool characters and concepts and you could do whatever with it. Remember the Total Chaos line? Bring that back. A Rhino in Iron Man armor would sell gangbusters if Third Party did it.
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He did go back to the Rhino for the Raw 10 line, which I think in theory was a good idea for a line, and if it had been designed *slightly* differently (relying more on ball joints for range of motion, for example) we'd all be grabbing some of those to drop into displays.

I do recall that Total Chaos line, and I recall being a little confused because I didn't recognize the characters from the comics. I think I assumed they would all make appearances eventually. It didn't occur to me at the time it was just "let's let our designs run wild".
 
On the topic, I still think I might pick up that Raw 10 shark. That seems like an amazing base for a custom paint job if nothing else. The others were alright but the shark was the best use of limited articulation. The only thing that really turned me off about that line otherwise was Todd hiding the Spawn face in all the designs.
 
Damien said:
The only thing that turns me off to basically any Todd line is how much Todd loves Todd.
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Yes.

He does an excellent job of making me *not* want to buy his stuff by throwing his “personality” into the fray. I aggressively do not want to hear from Todd, like ever. His “hype” makes me throw up in my mouth.

Why not just let the work speak for itself? He gets in his own way constantly.
 
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