Ok . . It's been almost 5 months since this last issue came out. But . . according to the letters page, they're going to try to get things back on track in the next few months. Here's the plans for the issues leading up to #200. Whilce Portacio returns for #197, which will be his final issue on this book. Khary Randolph with do the art for #198. With Erik Larsen jumping in for issue #199. Which all leads to issue #200 drawn by the one and only Todd McFarlane. Then issue #201 will be the start of the new creative time. Rookie writer Will Carlton will be doing the scripts. But don't worry. He's an employee of Todd McFarlane Productions, so . . he's worked with Todd and has pitched ideas to him. Szymon Kudranski will be doing the art. Apparently Todd wants a new feel for the book, and Szymon is the guy he thinks that will provide that. Anyways . . that's what the future holds. As for this issue . . it's the conclusion of the
Endgame storyline. Kind of. We learn a lot of stuff this issue, but . . there's still a whole lot of unanswered questions. Jim seems to be accepting his role. He doesn't have a name for it yet . . or a purpose, but . . he's more than willing to tap into it to try to get some answers. He starts with the Genetics doctor that seems to be linked to him through his medical records. He finds out that they were doing all kinds of genetic experiments, and that there were many doctors hired to try to achieve the desired results. Most of the patients died. They were given numbers instead of names. But #47, Jim, didn't. He went into a coma. From there Jim ends up talking to a crime boss, Nortego. There he finds out that Jim, or whomever he was before, was the actual person who gave the orders for all the experimentation. 'You were tired of the failures so you became your own patient. Don't you get it? You did this to yourself! You were in charge!' And then . . when he's really confused and frustrated . . the Clown shows up the muddy up the waters a little more. He explains to him the connection between he and Al Simmons, and the whole 'war' thing going on between Heaven and Hell. He explains to him the whole thing, and says that now he's a Spawn. And it's about time, because he has a whole army to lead.
'Go into the night, blanket yourself int he shadows. Feel your power. Embrace that and you can become Earth's king.' The picture on the left here is the art on the final page of the issue. I don't know that we have all the answers now, but . . we seem to be heading in the right direction. Well . . at least as far as the story goes. As far as Jim goes . . his path could be a little more confusing because of the Clown's involvement. But . . I guess we'll have to wait and see about that. Todd wrote this issue. But the art was done by Greg Capullo on layouts, and Todd and Rob Liefeld on the pencils. There's a name I didn't expect to see on this book. But most of his work is done in the style of Todd or Whilce's, so . . you can't really even see his influence. Anyways, I guess there's going to be a couple of double issue months coming up, so . . hopefully things will get back on track and we'll get a more normal schedule here. That's not the first time that's happened on this book. It probably won't be the last.
Ok . . It's been almost 5 months since this last issue came out. But . . according to the letters page, they're going to try to get things back on track in the next few months. Here's the plans for the issues leading up to #200. Whilce Portacio returns for #197, which will be his final issue on this book. Khary Randolph with do the art for #198. With Erik Larsen jumping in for issue #199. Which all leads to issue #200 drawn by the one and only Todd McFarlane. Then issue #201 will be the start of the new creative time. Rookie writer Will Carlton will be doing the scripts. But don't worry. He's an employee of Todd McFarlane Productions, so . . he's worked with Todd and has pitched ideas to him. Szymon Kudranski will be doing the art. Apparently Todd wants a new feel for the book, and Szymon is the guy he thinks that will provide that. Anyways . . that's what the future holds. As for this issue . . it's the conclusion of the Endgame storyline. Kind of. We learn a lot of stuff this issue, but . . there's still a whole lot of unanswered questions. Jim seems to be accepting his role. He doesn't have a name for it yet . . or a purpose, but . . he's more than willing to tap into it to try to get some answers. He starts with the Genetics doctor that seems to be linked to him through his medical records. He finds out that they were doing all kinds of genetic experiments, and that there were many doctors hired to try to achieve the desired results. Most of the patients died. They were given numbers instead of names. But #47, Jim, didn't. He went into a coma. From there Jim ends up talking to a crime boss, Nortego. There he finds out that Jim, or whomever he was before, was the actual person who gave the orders for all the experimentation. 'You were tired of the failures so you became your own patient. Don't you get it? You did this to yourself! You were in charge!' And then . . when he's really confused and frustrated . . the Clown shows up the muddy up the waters a little more. He explains to him the connection between he and Al Simmons, and the whole 'war' thing going on between Heaven and Hell. He explains to him the whole thing, and says that now he's a Spawn. And it's about time, because he has a whole army to lead. 
'Go into the night, blanket yourself int he shadows. Feel your power. Embrace that and you can become Earth's king.' The picture on the left here is the art on the final page of the issue. I don't know that we have all the answers now, but . . we seem to be heading in the right direction. Well . . at least as far as the story goes. As far as Jim goes . . his path could be a little more confusing because of the Clown's involvement. But . . I guess we'll have to wait and see about that. Todd wrote this issue. But the art was done by Greg Capullo on layouts, and Todd and Rob Liefeld on the pencils. There's a name I didn't expect to see on this book. But most of his work is done in the style of Todd or Whilce's, so . . you can't really even see his influence. Anyways, I guess there's going to be a couple of double issue months coming up, so . . hopefully things will get back on track and we'll get a more normal schedule here. That's not the first time that's happened on this book. It probably won't be the last.
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