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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Spawn Toy and Comic That Never Was
Here are some design sketches that Bill (artist of Red Demon, Dr. Destruction, and the Luchadores Five) did based on a conversation Jerry, Bill and I had with some of the fine people at Todd McFarlane Productions. Todd McFarlane was the superstar Marvel/Spider-man artist in the 1990s who later co-created Image Comics and the Spawn comic character. As mutual fans, we met with a handful of people working for McFarlane. In an attempt to explore the possibilities of collaboration, we were thinking that it'd be cool for the Muttpop Lucha Libre art team to create a Kaiju version of the more familiar characters of the Spawn universe. In exchange, we thought it'd be fun to see our Lucha Libre characters redone in the hyper-realistic Spawn style made famous by artists like McFarlane and Greg Capullo.
I asked Bill to come up with some design sketches for Spawn based on our conversation. Which are seen below.
Later on when the Spawn team was thinking of doing a Spawn comics anthology, we were asked to take our Kaiju concept and pitch it as a comic short story. I was pretty proud of what we came up with (a mix of Spawn X Ghost Rider X Shadow of the Colossus X Kamen Rider) but, sadly, the Anthology project was eventually canceled.
Fortunately we still have Bills amazing designs to share with you guys!
Comments
Muttpop Bob
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
suffy:
Still working on King Katch... just taking a bit of time.
RAWLS:
We're always open.
PoonDockTaint:
I happen to own a Medicom Spawn. It's a quality piece.
Jay Autumn:
Thanks for your thoughts. If you read my lastest blog post you'll see that we still have plans on publishing Lucha Libre. It's a little different than the previous format... but we're hoping to reach a new level of fans with it.
-MPB
Jay Autumn
Monday, March 22, 2010
I don't know if this is the right place to put this question but I've been reading through the internet and I couldn't find any official information about this...
I wanted to know what the hell is happening with Lucha Libre, because Image Comics got stuck on #6 a while ago, and now Glénat has cancelled it in Spain, having published only 4 issues.
I really wanna keep buying and reading it...it's one of the best series I've ever read, with absolutely nice artworks and lots of fun.
I'm a big fan of Bill, Gobi and Fabien and, as I said, I would like to know for sure what's happening with Lucha Libre and why it is on hiatus outside France.
Thanks for your attention.
PoonDockTaint
Friday, March 19, 2010
Excellent concept drawings. Quite nice. This would have been a nice follow-up to the McFarlane/Medicom stuff:
http://www.spawn.com/features/medicom
Also, bump to the King Katch comment. I still have a place on my shelf set aside for him. Though, I've started keeping that spot warm with a Swamp Thing hardcover collection.
I'm ready for Katch!
RAWLS
Friday, March 19, 2010
Wow! Freakin' amazing! Sad that this didn't go through! Would have been a great seller for sure. Is there any talk of maybe trying this again down the road?
suffy
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Ah man. This would have been so awesome.
Both the figures and the comic anthology.
Maybe some day!
On the subject of figures.
What's next?
King Katch feels MIA
I wouldn't mind seeing some characters along the lines of spawn etc. kinda twisted visions of superheroes.