This is one of the best animated series to every grace cable telvision, the only bad thing about this Spawn package is that there is no finale to the series. I don’t know what exactly went down with Todd McFarlane and HBO that didn’t allow for Spawn to continue to a fourth season or at least give fans an ending, but after watching three seasons on Disc to only get left wanting more and realize that more isn’t coming really feels like a trip to the dentist.

 Spawn is short for "hellspawn" and that is exactly what the being is. Once a governmental covert operative that took care of those nasty little problems no one likes to acknowledge, Al Simmons found himself on the wrong side of his agency one too many times. He was killed and at the moment of death, he was offered a deal by a shadowy character known only as Malebolgia (essentially the Devil). In exchange for seeing his loving wife, Al agreed to serve as needed and the result was his being brought back to animated form as Spawn. In this demon form, Al was granted substantial powers of strength, healing, teleportation, flight, and such but as he slowly figures out; there were more strings attached than he agreed to.

He was brought back after a five year absence where his wife Wanda is now happily married to his former best friend and they have a precious child. Al retained his burned and scarred face and his corporeal body is so hideous that he'd make a maggot gag. His fleeting memories are scattered and make no sense, providing the backdrop for the series as one of self exploration as much as the darker themes most of you will notice on the surface glance. Unlike the courts where McFarlane has fared so poorly in recent years, Spawn's agreement with the devil is such that it has a bit of an enforcement clause to it in the form of a jolly little, pot bellied man known as Clown. On the surface, he seems to be a weak, nasty little loser that Spawn could pummel easily but underneath his slight exterior is a full bred demon of significant power too, one quite jealous of the fact that hellspawns must be former humans with some spark of chaos to their personality; a spark capable of igniting wholesale carnage on the levels that impress even the devil himself.

I suggest this DVD to any Comic book fan and for those who are not animated fans but want a good story to watch.

The Look:
Full Frame - 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio. Spawn looks just as good as when I have seen it on TV. In all honesty, I didn't notice anything that different which makes me wonder if how it looks on TV is as good as it gets? Or, do we really need it to look any better than how it looks on TV? On all of these three discs, I didn't notice any problems from a video standpoint. There weren't any hits or moments where the picture got pixilated at all.

The Sound:
English - 5.1 Dolby Digital. Subtitled in English, French and Spanish. Close Captioned. There isn’t any problem from the audio standpoint.

The DVD comes in a very sturdy plastic, or something light but strong Package, which looks cool. Though there isn’t any layout include, the cover and back feature great artwork.

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