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u/Andy_B_Goode Sep 29 '16
'Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and -- '
'Hey, it's been 15 minutes, pal. Get to the back of the line.'
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u/colonelnebulous Sep 29 '16
"I'm not on this rooftop with you, you're on this rooftop with me!!"
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u/LaserPoweredDeviltry Sep 30 '16
"Do you remember that guy, what was his name? Bruce? What ever happened to that guy?"
"Well he tried to cut Rorschach in line, and Rorschach threw him down an elevator shaft."
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u/kutuzof Sep 29 '16
Yay, go Spawn! People still know and care about you!
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u/WuTangGraham Sep 29 '16 edited Sep 29 '16
The HBO series is on Amazon Prime. I just started watching it again.
Edit: Because apparently nobody knows about this. There was a Spawn animated series on HBO in the late 90s, although I think they only made 2 seasons. It's on Amazon Prime now
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u/radagasthebrown Sep 29 '16
SERIES?!?
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u/grim853 Sep 29 '16
Hahaha oh my God you're going to shit yourself it's so fucking good.
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u/AnlaShokOne Sep 29 '16
Wait for real? Or are you just fucking with us?
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u/bigted41 Sep 29 '16 edited Sep 29 '16
is for reals
it was on HBO back in the 90s, 2 seasons
Edit: 3!! seasons
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u/Hellakittehs Sep 29 '16
3 seasons :)
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u/bigted41 Sep 29 '16
3? damn, i gotta catch up on it, i figured it was just the 2 that i got on VHS...
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u/crazyfingersculture Sep 29 '16
One of the best cartoon series I have ever watched bar none. Man you guys make me feel old .... ahem, I mean knowledgeable.
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Sep 29 '16 edited Sep 30 '16
There's a spawn series?
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It's animated. I was hoping for a live action.
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u/bythinewill Sep 29 '16
There's a high quality Youtube of it as well last I checked. Phenominal. Keith David for the win.
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u/syllabic Sep 29 '16
Not to mention the carpenter films he did. They Live, The Thing.
If anyone can convince me to join the Navy, it would be Keith David.
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u/50v3r31gn Sep 29 '16
Imo HBO has higher quality shows than other networks and I personally enjoy the Marvel shows on Netflix. How does this compare to those?
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u/WuTangGraham Sep 29 '16
I like it, although it's a bit hokey at times, especially the intro. It's older, from I believe 1998 or 1999, I definitely remember staying up late to watch it as a kid.
The intro is done by Todd McFarland, live action and is a bit hokey. It's just him talking to the camera in a gothic-style room while he's wearing a poorly fitted suit. The rest of the show is pretty good, though. The animation is unique, and a bit different than what we see today, but I wouldn't say it's bad by any stretch. They do a good job of tackling the good vs. evil narrative that the Spawn comics always had. All in all it's definitely worth a watch.
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u/makemeking706 Sep 29 '16
live action and is a bit hokey.
I remember those sorts of intros being somewhat common back then. I feel like a few shows had them, but can't remember specifics.
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u/one-eleven Sep 29 '16
It's a cartoon, so it's not like the Netflix shows. But it's a badass cartoon.
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u/Burning_Medical Sep 29 '16
Thanks for this! I keep forgetting I get free shows to watch with my prime membership.
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u/falconbox Sep 30 '16
I often forget how young Reddit is.
Also, the movie was good. Yeah, I said it.
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u/WuTangGraham Sep 30 '16
Yeah, the series came out when the average Redditor was likely still in diapers. Maybe pull-ups
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u/Postius Sep 29 '16
there is a series?
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u/WuTangGraham Sep 29 '16
Yeah, but it's older. 1998 or 1999. I believe they only made one or two seasons of it.
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u/Postius Sep 29 '16
on a scale of 1 to clash of the titans, how good/bad is it?
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Sep 29 '16
There's a new movie in production.
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u/St_Veloth Sep 29 '16 edited Sep 29 '16
If it doesn't open with Todd McFarlane sitting at a table drawing before turning around and giving us some half baked idea of what fear is while sounding like a total nerd then I will be disappointed.
"What sort of darkness lurks inside cell phones? Hi, I'm Todd McFarlane"
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u/milkand24601 Sep 29 '16
i can't describe why this is awesome, yet i know in my heart it is
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Sep 29 '16
Probably because he was putting the gas to pretentious artist types like McFarlane with his riff.
That or the theme song, probably.
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Sep 29 '16
Fuck. Why do you need to bring thus nostalgia back? Now I can't stop ruminating on my youth.
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u/robywar Sep 29 '16
Maybe my 7 pristine mint copies of Spawn #1 will be worth something!
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McFarlane said he's been pushing for another modern spawn movie with the updated CGI of today but no luck yet. Don't know what happened to spawns popularity but my assumption was that he was huge in the 90s and everything else big from the 90s is getting reboots
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u/dizao Sep 29 '16
Part of it was legal issues I'm sure. McFarlane didn't own the rights to all of the characters in the Spawn universe (such as Cogliostro) and there was a falling out, which is part of the reason why the animated series stopped.
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u/porkchop_d_clown Sep 29 '16
But shouldn't he be brooding in a cardboard box in an alley instead of on top of a skyscraper?
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u/weltallic Sep 29 '16
I remember when Spawn was king of the world, considered the natural successor to old and uncool Superman and Batman, and historians would always talk of them as the comic book trinity, all while Todd was making millions with Spawn cartoons, toys, movies, games, etc.
And lil' Rob Liefeld was his young pal who tagged along with him and would ask him for tips on his quaint lil' fun comics and mmmaybe Todd would permit him to draw a guest issue and mmmmaybe Spawn would cameo a Youngblood, and Deadpool was just that ninja with a spawn mask. Because Spawn was cool.
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u/ascii Sep 29 '16
Has Spiderman changed tone in recent years? He never used to be the brooding kind back in the day. Rest of them, fair enough, but Spidey feels out of place.
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u/jordanfromjordan Sep 29 '16
He dosent exactly "brood" in terms of tone, but he does physically keep an eye out from high vantage points such as these
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u/akornblatt Sep 29 '16 edited Sep 29 '16
There was a series that included Shriek where he was broody as hell. In fact he literally made himself a cocoon.
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Sep 29 '16
In fact he literally made himself a cocoon
But... spiders don't do that!
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u/sbmatias Sep 29 '16
He does it again after he gets his eyeball eaten and sheds his skin. Seriously.
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u/akornblatt Sep 29 '16
...what? What is that story line?
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u/sbmatias Sep 29 '16
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_The_Other
He gets his eyeball eaten in act two and sheds his skin/cocoons in act three.
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u/akornblatt Sep 29 '16
and then what happens?
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u/sbmatias Sep 29 '16
Well basically he gets the shit beaten out of him and his human side nearly dies so his spider side takes over and he gains these stingers that come out of his arms. Then he sheds his skin and goes and cocoons him self under the Brooklyn Bridge for a little bit. While he's cocooned he talks to his spider side I guess and they hash it out or something like that. Whenever he comes out he still has the ability to use the stingers.
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u/lazy_as_shitfuck Sep 29 '16
For a suit that literally shows the contours of his muscles, I'm surprised we can't see his dick
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u/ambiturnal Sep 30 '16
I find this ironic, since the last fight I remember between him and Shriek, he just dodged around while making fun of her until he was in range to flick her in the forehead, rendering her unconscious.
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Sep 29 '16
keep an eye out from high vantage points
Then what the hell is Daredevil doing up there?
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Having lived in tall buildings, sounds travel quite well vertically since there are fewer obstructions than on the ground
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u/Djaquitchane Sep 29 '16 edited Sep 29 '16
There's a scene where he does that in the Affleck movie
He also does it a couple times (if not more) in the Netflix series.
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u/BenAdaephonDelat Sep 29 '16
Good question. Also, how does he know what the time limit is if he can't read that sign?
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u/PastaPappa Sep 29 '16
When he first appeared, he was a whiny teenager brooding over keeping his aunt in funds after his uncle died. I think an angsty teen would love a good brood.
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u/TwilightVulpine Sep 29 '16
Did people forget how many times he gave up on being Spider-Man, only to come back later? He had plenty of brooding.
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u/dalelito Sep 29 '16
The only thing that change is that Peter is billionaire now and is killing Tonys Company
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u/_Woodrow_ Sep 29 '16
Mid Nineties' Spidey - definitely
Today's Spidey - not so much
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u/markercore Sep 30 '16
Well plus today's spidey was Doc Ock for more years than I thought it would go on.
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u/Big_Poo_MaGrew Sep 30 '16
I think it was just a full year's run no?
EDIT: roughly a year and a half. Longer if you want to count Spiderverse
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u/makemeking706 Sep 29 '16
It's a high perch. It's not like they are going to kick you out if you don't specifically use it to brood.
Who would even be responsible for policing that sort of thing?
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u/The_Pip Sep 29 '16
Not pictured: Wyle E Coyotte, who ruined for everyone when the gargoyle broke and fell to the street below.
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u/2rapey4you Sep 29 '16
Not pictured: Wyle E Coyotte, who ruined for everyone when the gargoyle broke and the skyscraper fell to the street below.
ftfy
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u/WintermutesTwin Sep 29 '16
Please come back Spawn! With the success of an R rated Deadpool movie, hopefully, we will eventually see another Spawn movie.
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u/iamcatch22 Sep 29 '16
Spawn's still around. I think #264 just came out
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u/Poached_Polyps Sep 30 '16
Man, I remember being in like 6th grade when spawn #50 came out. I still have almost 1-50 and umm the spawn bible, spawn vs batman and some other spawn related stuff sitting around somewhere. Shit it's probably worth dozens!
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Then theres this guy
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u/masterpigg Sep 29 '16
I was about to say "He's not brooding. He's just standing there looking cool while his hair flows in the wind..." but then I remembered that it has been a while since I listened to The Protomen, and taking that interpretation into account, yeah, he is totally brooding.
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u/DJanomaly Sep 29 '16
For anyone else who was curious (left to right): Batman, Spiderman, Spawn, Daredevil
The last two I couldn't quite figure out at first.
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Can't Daredevil pretty much brood anywhere? It's not like he's admiring the view. Maybe that gargoyle has really good acoustics.
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u/williamb100 Sep 29 '16
Spidey doesn't really brood though...
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u/Vr6Rio Sep 29 '16
Only when he is swinging through the city and then something will always make his sense tingle or he will see something, cutting his thoughts short.
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u/skyskr4per Sep 29 '16
There were a few years in the late nineties where that's pretty much all he did.
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u/n0rpie Sep 29 '16
This is fake, spawn doesn't stand in lines
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u/weltallic Sep 29 '16
He does if he doesn't want a batarang in the face.
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u/pelrun Sep 30 '16
And if you take a photo from a slightly different angle you find out it's only 5m from the ground and there's a huge queue of people waiting to take brooding perspective photos?
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u/Angry_Deplorable Sep 29 '16
Why are they all in the same city?
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u/JTSnidely Sep 30 '16
They're all visiting Metropolis on an invite from Superman (he wants to start a kickball league). Unfortunately, Supes could only find one good building to brood on that didn't obstruct helicopter traffic.
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u/ClydeTheDouche Sep 29 '16
My DC Universe character belongs here, I always go to the top of a building before I tab out for masturbatory purposes.
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u/binkerfluid Sep 29 '16
ok, Spiderman and Spawn I can kinda accept because of Todd McFarlane...but we are supposed to believe this is a universe with Spiderman, Spawn AND Batman?
Laughable...
http://i.imgur.com/3zzX0ru.png
(just kidding Spiderman and Batman have totally met before)
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u/Just_us_trees_here Sep 29 '16
And then Batman gets back in line and offers to pay the others waiting for cutsies.