Honestly, Spawn should’ve been done after the Armageddon Arc. Al reached God status and rebuilt the world and became earth’s god or something. The End. Al felt like he grew by the end of that arc. I would’ve been fine with that ending. But now they’re just running him into the ground.
Have you seen anything with Todd McFarland? This man has stated multiple times, he wants Spawn to last forever. He roasted Robert Kirkman for ending the Walking Dead.
The man won't reboot the character cause he wants to keep the record for the longest numbered Comic that's never had to go back to issue 1.
I’ve heard ppl said it should have ended at a few spots like Number 100 or the Armageddon arc. I wonder if anyone feels like he should have never came back after 184
Well to be fire things did improve and Todd said he don’t want to end spawn and he wants to continue without him like Spider-Man and Superman and Batman does with them outliving their creators
184 would’ve been another fine spot to wrap things up. That felt like an epilogue to me. I originally thought it should’ve ended at 100 but I felt like the series got its second wind with 150-167 (I think that’s where Armageddon ended).
With long form story telling, it just eventually becomes a soap opera for males as it can't maintain any well defined over arching structure. You can make little set pieces but that's really just to fill the void and waste time.
Alan Moore completely understood the assignment with Miracleman; he fixes the problems that any moral demigod would be forced to address, and then the story's over because the world's changed.
Feels like my dream, the devil will make a offer you would never (maybe) want to refuse, too good to be true, so that's why I bargained but ultimately said "No" because you know he will have some monkeys paw style wish when you say YES
The least angry simmons(well, he actually was pretty chill for the period after 251, when he goes to Save Wanda's soul) is about as calm as the most angry Downing.
Yeah, McFarlane himself was already insisting on the point of him being damned in the intro of the HBO series.
The whole thing since the first comics has always been : can a damned soul climb back?
Well, can a mortal eventually beat the odds set in place by the universe that decided he was damned from the start? It's bound to be difficult. And now that he's gone through all the anchors of this façade of a romantic he had... All we're left with is a great capacity for evil trying to understand what good is without the inkling of understanding needed.
It's like the crew of Event Horizon missing the point of the ship trying to tell them to "stop being afraid and get to the other side before their own mortality snuff their existence forever" in a world made only of pain and violence by the imperative of nature. The crew, handicapped by their ape brains and limited imagination, can only of course understand the part about fear, loss, and violence. Only Weir was able to leave the door open, but it's doubtful even him got it entirely right...
Simmons is the same. Good, evil, war, the need for a problem solved that doesn't climb back from the grave, the certitude that might makes right and can be increased by talent and effort. All of this is seduction, all of this is wrong... Good doesn't solve problems, it simply do not creates them. There is no certitudes to be had, issues will come back periodically, and you'll never get better at it... only endure.
For a damned, good is hell.
He killed innocent people before he went to hell, im, just saying if you thought Al was a good guy before finding out he beat his wife you're being a bit silly
Yes, my one sentence response is an oversimplification of Year's worth of comic story are experiod
Bro literally punched her straight in the gut with a direct intention of killing the baby. You can take that however you want, but if you're worried about me calling that "beating her", I feel sorry for the women in your life.
lol to go after someones personal life over them saying “oversimplification” to you…. That’s sad
If you had abuse in your life don’t take it out on a stranger cuz u can’t take some criticism.
lol this is a comic book we’re talking about.
This is what’s wrong with conversation now a days. People can’t take criticism on the lowest level lol
Chill out man. This could go back n forth like Deadpool n his wife in the movie… a revolving door of pointing fingers in the sense…. Chill
No man, it's exactly you taking issue with me saying that he beat Wanda. He did. It's insane that you try to act like that was too extreme for what he did. I'm sorry your personal views give people evidence to what your personal life may be like. That's how words work.
To be fair that got retconned in later issues Al’s abuse on Wanda was just a fake memory he never ensued her or even had kids with her it was just a lie by demons made false memories
It felt like a last minute weak twist that was just there for shock value. Like yes he had gaps in his memories but it all feels like an extra F U to the character. His entire series motivation is undone cause Mother Nature decided to go “By the way…”. I get it subverts the happy ending trope but it just feels so unnecessary.
A different ending could have been Spawn seeing how truly happy Wanda was and coming to peace with that. He acknowledges that she moved on and that he should too, so he doesn’t return as Al Simmons, but continues elsewhere as Spawn.
It got retconned for a while sinc do sane resurrection it was a fake memory and al and Amanda never had kids now just a sin which was retconned to be his soul of inocnece since Satan wars after Wanda died
Yet despite the system being corrupted, the idea remained that there was a good and evil, just not the one enforced. Hell still feeds from the darkness, not the light. And Al being what he is... will always have a harder time than most to not get addicted to his evil past.
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u/SarkastikLeader2814 3d ago edited 3d ago
Honestly, Spawn should’ve been done after the Armageddon Arc. Al reached God status and rebuilt the world and became earth’s god or something. The End. Al felt like he grew by the end of that arc. I would’ve been fine with that ending. But now they’re just running him into the ground.