Steve Oliff
Birth date: February 20, 1954
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Volume II of this series is as gorgeous as Volume I. There are two main stories, only one of which I'd read before. The first, about Lucifer abdicating as ruler of Hell, did not appeal to me as much as the second, about The Cuckoo, with its cast of characters from under-represented groups and very m...
How good was Sandman, really? I asked myself. After all I was in my late teens and it was a long time ago. Also probably the first comic for adults I ever read. Should I take a risk on those gigantic anthologies, The Absolute Sandman or a lesser commitment on the comparatively tiddly first paperbac...
Of course, I'm not sure a 'Spawn befriending a child' story could be done without being only so-so (because there's a child involved and Spawn is very much not child friendly) or being disturbing (such as the storylines where Cyan gets kidnapped by a psycho clown from Hell.) That being said, this ...
I picked up most of the first 2 volumes via single issues to try and get some backstory to Spawn and hopefully fill in some blanks for my read of Hellspawn. Lt Col Al Simmons was killed and sent to hell but made a deal with the devil that he could return to earth after 5 years to see his wife, Wanda...
And yet, that's the beauty: he did evolve. Eventually, with the spin-off, with Hellspawn, it'll become even further removed from this issue, but that's the thing with issue one, with season one. It's working out the kinks in the world. (The creators of Angel talked about this, being a Buffy sp...
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