This guy from Images new Godslayer comic look familiar?:
Like someone we've all seen before?:
Godslayer is a new Spawn spin off from Image Comics which I picked up at the Wizard Comic Con last month. I liked Spawn a lot when I was younger but I haven't touched any American comics for the past 7-10 years. Godslaying sounded familiar and cool so I flipped through it and busted out bills for the merchant. A summary of the story line as told by one of the authors in an interview:
"NYXX : Now here we are and McFarlane Productions have announced a second monthly title, tell us more about Spawn: The Godslayer. The concept? The Story?
BRIAN: We've been describing Godslayer as a "re-imagining" of the Spawn story. That is, taking the core elements of Spawn and recasting it in a different world. Godslayer is set in a mythic fantasy world called Ur that is ruled by competing pantheons of Gods. It tells the story of Bairn, a warrior prince from the island kingdom of Endra-La, who is slain in battle. With his dying breath he makes a bargain with an ancient Chaos Lord, a being older than even the Gods. The Chaos Lord will resurrect Bairn and allow him to be reunited with his fiancée, Neva. In exchange, Bairn must haunt down and kill the Gods themselves.
In the original one-shot, which came out last fall, Bairn returned at last to his home after decades in the God-slaying profession. In that time, Neva had abandoned her station and given her life to the temple, becoming "Vessel to the Goddess." So their reunion resulted with Bairn slaying the only thing he loved. The new series picks up shortly after that.
The stories play out on several levels. The first is obviously Bairn and his hunting and battling with the Gods. Secondly, their Bairn's attempt to free himself from his curse and either be reunited with Neva or simply pass peacefully into death. Thirdly, there's the Gods themselves, who are a scheming, manipulative lot. Some rightly see the emergence of the Godslayer as an existential threat, but others see it as a golden opportunity. And then there are the people, the mortals caught in middle of warring Gods. What happens to a land when its God is murdered? What happens to the crops when a Rain Goddess is killed? We're going to be exploring all those question.
It's drawn a large canvas. There's an entire, fantastic world of Gods and creatures and cultures to explore. There's been a real lack of big, epic fantasy in comics lately and we're hoping to fill that gap."
The similarities in the story were obvious but as I reached the last couple of pages and watched the "hero" reminisce about previous battles that first image above just blew me away.
Thoughts?
Like someone we've all seen before?:
Godslayer is a new Spawn spin off from Image Comics which I picked up at the Wizard Comic Con last month. I liked Spawn a lot when I was younger but I haven't touched any American comics for the past 7-10 years. Godslaying sounded familiar and cool so I flipped through it and busted out bills for the merchant. A summary of the story line as told by one of the authors in an interview:
"NYXX : Now here we are and McFarlane Productions have announced a second monthly title, tell us more about Spawn: The Godslayer. The concept? The Story?
BRIAN: We've been describing Godslayer as a "re-imagining" of the Spawn story. That is, taking the core elements of Spawn and recasting it in a different world. Godslayer is set in a mythic fantasy world called Ur that is ruled by competing pantheons of Gods. It tells the story of Bairn, a warrior prince from the island kingdom of Endra-La, who is slain in battle. With his dying breath he makes a bargain with an ancient Chaos Lord, a being older than even the Gods. The Chaos Lord will resurrect Bairn and allow him to be reunited with his fiancée, Neva. In exchange, Bairn must haunt down and kill the Gods themselves.
In the original one-shot, which came out last fall, Bairn returned at last to his home after decades in the God-slaying profession. In that time, Neva had abandoned her station and given her life to the temple, becoming "Vessel to the Goddess." So their reunion resulted with Bairn slaying the only thing he loved. The new series picks up shortly after that.
The stories play out on several levels. The first is obviously Bairn and his hunting and battling with the Gods. Secondly, their Bairn's attempt to free himself from his curse and either be reunited with Neva or simply pass peacefully into death. Thirdly, there's the Gods themselves, who are a scheming, manipulative lot. Some rightly see the emergence of the Godslayer as an existential threat, but others see it as a golden opportunity. And then there are the people, the mortals caught in middle of warring Gods. What happens to a land when its God is murdered? What happens to the crops when a Rain Goddess is killed? We're going to be exploring all those question.
It's drawn a large canvas. There's an entire, fantastic world of Gods and creatures and cultures to explore. There's been a real lack of big, epic fantasy in comics lately and we're hoping to fill that gap."
The similarities in the story were obvious but as I reached the last couple of pages and watched the "hero" reminisce about previous battles that first image above just blew me away.
Thoughts?
