THE GOOD
It's crazy to see how Whilce Portachio's art has evolved over the years and I really like the direction it's taken. Maybe it's the combination of his art, McFarlane's pencils and the production team's colors... but I was really struck by the unique style of the finished product. While it still delivered on all the goods of storytelling, layout, et cetera... it felt kind of unconventional. Almost like art from a hip magazine, especially when it came to how he rendered the faces. Clown and Violater looked absolutely menacing.THE BAD
This issue was awfully talky for what I expect from Spawn. It felt like the whole thing could've been about half-an-issue and the dialogue could have been a lot tighter. It just seemed kind of... mundane for a book about a hellspawn. This was basically about people talking in an apartment and then monsters talking on a rooftop.There was also an eye-brow raising scene where Spawn lands on Clown and there seems to be an explosion, but then there's no evidence of it happening on the next page. There's a similar odd jump when Redeemer's about to square off against the vampires, and the page just cut to him torn to shreds. Rather than being a cool transition, it just comes off as confusing.
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