Spawn Godslayer part2 May 4, 2007
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Hi again. Ready for the rest of this review? well, I’m finally ready to finish it so….
Spawn : Godslayer written by Brian Holguin and art by Jay Anacleto
As I began to finish this review this evening, I found out that this book will become a regular continuing series. I thought that it was finished after the first book. Silly me.
Any way, what we have here is a supposed re-telling of the Spawn legend this time involving magic and ancient kingdoms.
The story opens with the pragmatic telling of the beginning…
” It was in the season of the Jasmin Moon, when the godslayer came at last to Endra-la ”
The story is about a hero named Bairn and his betrothed Neva and of a love that was to last forever, and of a promise that he would return to her after he went off to war at sea.
That promise would never be fulfilled. Bairn is killed by an unnamed warrior ( possibly a pirate, and you never are told the warrior’s name nor where Bairn had gone to fight ) what you do get to see is his destruction at sea. His body falls into icy water, and then drifts to the bottom of the icy sea depths.
This is where the story becomes even more muddied…Bairn seems to have made a deal with a ” water demon ” with his dying breath and than becomes the hellspawn.
In the meantime, Neva is told the bad news that her beloved has been killed. Her life is over than, and she becomes the ” vessel ” for the goddess Llyra, daughter of Orn.
In the end, thru an epic battle, Bairn, the hellspawn godslayer, kills his beloved Neva, and also kills the goddess Llyra, and heads back out to sea on his ” Spawn Barge ” of Death and Destruction.
I have to say, I really expected more from this story, just because of the description of the book on the backpage( a foolish reason, I know ) and I was intrigued by this supposed tale, but it just is not anything like the genre is was touted to be like.
There is no sword and sorcery aspect like you’d find in a Conan tale.
There are no hobbits here, nor is there an Excalibur to be drawn from a stone here in this story either.
More the pity.
The art by Anacleto is nicely done, but I found alot of the images just too dark to really be enjoyable.
I wish I were able to give this book a better review, but after reading this tale twice, and getting a look again at the price I paid for it, I cannot help but just be disappointed all in all with this tale.
But in case you are a die hard Spawn fan, the new series is shipping this month and the first arc is called ” The Winter King “
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