If we’re going to tell a really silly, slightly stupid story like this, only someone with TV experience can really capture that in a way that’s both subtle and also somewhat over-the-top. Like, the not-so-subtle nod to The Usual Suspects the perfectly sized Nightcrawler whatever is occurring between Moon Knight and Quicksilver and that She-Hulk seems hugely unbothered on a number of levels - it all feels like silly comics shtick that’s actually done right. There’s a lot to love about this cover, and hopefully the way it hints at and sets up this latest iteration of Marvel’s glorified team of super-janitors. In my many years of reading and writing about comics, I’ve never seen a book featuring the worlds “From the creator of TV’s The Goldbergs.” (And I’ve seen a lot of weird, comics-centric stuff in my day, including whatever is going on here.) I’m not against the idea either the crossover between comics and TV is pretty sturdy (if not somehow still complicated and nuanced), and that holds doubly true if it’s a fairly entertaining creator like Adam F. Damage Control #1Ĭover by Carlos Pacheco and Rachelle Rosenberg Also, I don’t know what’s more scary here: the demon mouth in the horse’s chest area or the fact that the animal looks so dang ripped. No one creator has cultivated this aesthetic like Todd McFarlane, and even if he’s not actually on art duty, it’s covers like this that prove his ideas and energy will live on no matter where Spawn and his ilk travel.
Which is to say, it feels like an homage to late ’80s black metal cheesy westerns a pinch or two of distinctly Image aesthetics also from mid-1994 and a hodgepodge of other ideas and influences of the geeky and doubly geek variety. But I think this cover here transcends such chronological simplicity it’s distinctly Spawn in nature.
And, yes, this design does scream peak ’90s energy - even the artist, a so-called Puppeteer Lee - has a moniker that would only be acceptable circa 1997. If you take a peep at this latest cover from Gunslinger Spawn, you may think you’re staring down the barrel of another of my world-famous rants about ’90s comics.
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