I really enjoyed Spawn the movie, I never have read the Comic Books.
If I liked the movie is it a safe bet that I will also like the animated series?
Thanks in Advance

anyone?

If you really liked Spawn: The Movie, uh, you'd probably hate the comics and the animated series.

I've never read the comics, but I saw probably four episodes of the animated series on HBO - and WOW is it cool! I mean, this is the sort of series every animation fan dreams about. Take the dark tone of Tim Burton's Batman movie, crank it up about eight notches, and throw in some apocalyptic demon battles - now you've got an idea of what to expect.

I saw the movie a while later, and I'm in full agreement with 99% of other Spawn fans that it's a steaming pile of dung. No offense or anything - I realize people's tastes differ... but damn was this movie bad! Perhaps I was just expecting a lot more... I dunno.

- David Stein


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I live by the theory that I'm immortal. By the time I'm proven wrong, it won't matter anyway.

I like the HBO series much better than the movie. I have about the first 30 issues of the comic, and the series stays true to the comic.

sfsdfd gives a good description of it. I'll add curse words, gorey deaths and extreme violence + a good story line & you have the show in a nutshell. Try renting one if you don't think you'll like it. I myself am trying to keep cash so I can buy the box set, but so many new releases continue to come out that I must have I keep putting it on the back burner...maybe January

I'd say definately get the animated series DVDs (I think you can get all 3 in a box set too). I have em all and I think it's one great cartoon. The movie I thought was just really bad, but the series is great and I've been told it stays mostly true to the comic also. It's definately worth getting

It's been out for a while now too so I'm sure it's a little cheaper than most DVDs are, pick up the first one and if ya like it, get the other 2

I only own the frist season DVD, but I've seen the other episods on HBO and the other DVDs are on my gonna-get-it-someday list the one thing I didn't care for with the first season disc is that it's got half the season on 1 side and the rest on the other side. I guess it was made before there was a lot of dual layer stuff. Just a minor inconvience

The menus are cool too

Another vote for the ANIMATED dvds...

HBO is THE perfect place to show this type of animation.

No heavy limits on sex, violence, and other weird stuff.

In animation you can obviously make things look cooler than in live action fims....

i.e. Spawn's costume in the Movie MINUS the LIVING CAPE.

As you know, it only appeared when he needed it in the movie very stupid

Nice animation, darkly violent, the dialogue is painful at times--but nowhere near as painful as the movie's "writing" (gotta support the "steaming pile of dung" camp there)--and Cagliostro's narration is so portentous and overwritten it's sometimes self-parodying. But I like it.