Great Moments in Comics History: Spawn #5

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1. stuclach says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:18 am

   I’m visualizing an issue that takes 4 hours to read. No, thank you.
2. harwellpkg says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:21 am

   Was this when Spawn was actually worth looking at?
3. ActualButt says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:24 am

   @harwellpkg  Spawn was really never worth looking at.
4. davidtobin100 says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:24 am

   That initial arc was great. The Kincaid death-scene page was another really excellent moment from that story.
5. Alexferrer says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:25 am

   you are cured,
   BILLY KINCAID.
6. drunkyoda says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:38 am

   @ActualButt  This is from the first issues, when spawn was about something more and he made cultural impact in comics… Spawn was at it best until issue 100
7. WeaklyRoll says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:42 am

   I love the people who love the sound of thier own voice!
8. JimmyF1982 says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:46 am

   This page looks FANTASTIC in the deluxe hardcover edition! Can’t wait for book 3 to come out so i can get the issues where he has the “new” costume!
9. marshak75 says:

   January 20, 2011 at 9:48 am

   This was a great first story arc.  It made my skin crawl.  By the time Kincaid was dead, I was cheering.
10. JMann says:

    January 20, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Those connected word-ballons are truly….advantageous!!!!
11. wallythegreenmonster says:

    January 20, 2011 at 10:15 am

    oh yeah that brings me back. NIcely designed page. 

    Just curous ifanboys….i know you guys talk a lot on the podcasts about pages that get “too wordy” how does something like this fit into that conversation? 
12. RoiVampire says:

    January 20, 2011 at 10:18 am

    I was just talking about this last week on the Spawn #200 pull. Those early spawn comics were the wordiest of the wordy.
13. PraxJarvin says:

    January 20, 2011 at 10:29 am

    Were this a modern comic, the same amount of text would be there but it would just be divided over 30 copy & pasted panels of Kincaid’s face looking impassive. 
14. itsbecca says:

    January 20, 2011 at 10:35 am

    Getting to this page must be like flipping over the sunday comics and reading Prince Valiant. My brain could never sit still.
15. ResurrectionFlan says:

    January 20, 2011 at 10:50 am

    There’s this amazing splash page from when Claremont rejoined X-Men in the early 2000s I think. I haven’t been able to find it, but it has about 6 years of text. Like a full amount of dinner party conversation occuring in one panel where the x-Men are FLYING THROUGH A SKYLIGHT ON MOTORCYCLES.

    THEY ARE HAVING A 10 MINUTE CONVERSATION on an action page of them crashing through a roof on motorcycles!

    It was one of the worst things I have ever seen. 
16. flakbait says:

    January 20, 2011 at 10:53 am

    Complaints if it takes a long time to read, complaints if it takes two minutes to read. They can’t win. 😉
17. ResurrectionFlan says:

    January 20, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    @ResurrectionFlan  Yay I found it:

    http://i51.tinypic.com/3144jki.jpg
18. Dan says:

    January 20, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    The next page in this issue is a two-page spread of Spawn crouched on top of a church – all cape and chains and whatnot. Not a word balloon to be seen, though.
19. Suicidalkangarooz says:

    January 20, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    This was a great issue.
20. Andrew says:

    January 20, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Todd McFarlane draws fat guy faces like nobody’s business!
21. cutty says:

    January 20, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Loved that issue.  The first 20 or so issues of Spawn were so much fun
22. BobDigi76 says:

    January 21, 2011 at 10:47 am

    I think I have 4-5 copies of this issue.  Ahh the 90’s!