What happened to Spawn?

[Lord]

In the early 90s it was very popular, many tought he was going to be as popular as superman, batman, spider-man and others, now it's comics barelly sell and i don't even know how it didn't already, i never read much of Spawn and am reading the origin collections.
Mc Farlane said he had an ending planed if spawn stoped selling much but that he hoped he would never have to use as he wanted it to continue like superman and other famous characters, maybe it's time to make it no?
By the way, in the early comics there's an hourglass and a clock or chronometer that some times appears many times, others it doesn't, what does it mean? Is that supposed to be a countdown till issue 100?

 

[Rez]

The countdown eventually fizzles out, with it's only story purpose being stopped before it actually hits 0. While there's a few arcs that are pretty silly, I'd say Spawn 1-100 makes for one hell of a great story.

Unfortunately after 100 everything gets drawn out into long, convoluted garbage. There's a few issues and concepts here and there that aren't too bad, like God & Satan being two murderous little kids and the world being all "wrong" after Armageddon, but they are EXTREMELY few and far between.

Last I checked the writers had no idea what to do anymore, so Al Simmons Spawn kills himself for no reason(seriously) and gets replaced by another guy as Spawn just, uh, so they can start the entire story from the first 100 issues over again, I guess.

So yeah, check it out up through issue 100. It's mostly great stuff, and a great place to end things. I catch up from time to time, but so far I've regretted it almost completely.

 

[Lord]

Killing Al Simons seems like a terrible move to me, how is Spawn still being made if it even droped from the 100 most sold comics ?
I tought Simons becoming more powerful with time may have been better than start over again, i mean, one of the reasons One More Day sucked was because Spider-man had already evolved as a character from all those romance and events.
I've been searching and Spawn 1 isn't even as valuable as most tought it would be

 

[Justkidding]

Spawn seems to be going into interesting directions as of late.

The old Spawn, Al, is now called Omega Spawn. Why? I don't know. I think it was all supposed to be explained in Image United which quit coming out. But the New Spawn is a new age healer tv personallity and the Clown is a is he/is he not a good guy sidekick to him.

And Twitch is trying to find out what's going on and what happened to Al.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

The cartoon is better than the comics.

 

[Lord]

Really?
How is Spawn still being published if it's selling so badly?

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I think it's because McFarlane owns Spawn, and therefore has control as to whether or not it's published. And yeah, the cartoon is B:TAS level.

 

[Lord]

I've been waiting for the secound animated series
Spawn: The Animation
for some time now, it was probably cancelled

 

[Comics N' Toons]

I am actually getting into Spawn for the first time and have been reading comics and obsessed with superheroes for 20 years since the age of 9. So here's hoping it's good. When should a person stop? I heard around issue 30 to 50 was a great stopping point.

 

[Darthkush]

I would echo the stopping at 100 sentiment, although I vaguely remember there being some kind of other judgement day storyline 20-30 issues after that where the actual apocalypse happened and it being pretty good. After that, i'd say don't bother at all.

Al Simmons isn't Spawn anymore? wow, what's the point?