Spawn: Angela's Hunt [Paperback]

Neil Gaiman (Author), Greg Capullo (Illustrator), Mark Pennington (Illustrator), Todd McFarlane (Introduction)

Book Description

Series: Spawn Series | Publication Date: October 30, 1999

A highly skilled hunter, Angela has been ordered to stand trial for treason. Always considered an angel of honor and integrity, her friends disbelieve the charges and set about uncovering evidence to refute them.They recruit Spawn, and Earth-bound soldier of Hell whom Angela last hunted, to go before the judge. However, when Angela and Spawn last met, Angela was the hunter and Spawn her quarry; she the attacker and he on the defensive. They were an even match, neither able to best the other. Now, the tables are turned and Angela must ask her prey to defend her in a court where mercy is never an option. With her life at stake, can Angela trust and depend on the very enemy she tried to kill?

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From the Publisher

Neil Gaiman is an acclaimed novelist and writer of comics, short stories, screen and teleplays. He wrote the groundbreaking Sandman series of graphic novels, which remains the top selling series in that category. He created the BBC's hit television series Neverwhere, soon to be a major motion picture from Jim Henson Productions. With the publication of the best-selling Neverwhere novel, Gaiman made the leap from graphic visionary to literary novelist. His other books include Smoke and Mirrors, Stardust, and Good Omens with Terry Pratchett; Good Omens is now in production as a movie directed by Terry Gilliam.His most recent book is the best-selling American Gods (Harper Collins).

About the Author

Neil Gaiman, best known for his comic book cult classic Sandman, wrote this popular mini-series about the warrior Angela. Gaiman, who has won several awards for his fantasy fiction books, now writes screen adaptations including the critically acclaimed Princess Mononoke animated feature and Neverwhere, a six-part series for BBC television.

Born in 1962, Greg Capullo is a self-taught artist who made his way from doodling in high school to commercial advertising. His first comic work, Gore Shriek, was published by a local comic shop in Albany, New York. Shortly thereafter, Capullo started at Marvel and worked on What If?, Quasar, and X-Force. After leaving Marvel, Capullo began to pencil Spawn at issue # 26 where he has been since. Capullo has also worked on various other projects including the award-winning Korn CD jacket for Follow the Leader and his own successful three-issue mini-series, The Creech, which he wrote and penciled.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Image Comics (October 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582401683
• ISBN-13: 978-1582401683
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,079,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Publishers > Image Comics

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I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).

In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Honor of Angels, December 11, 2005

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OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" (Algoma, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angela (Spawn Series) (Paperback)

_I was a never a big follower of Spawn- until I stumbled upon the character of Angela, warrior angel. This book collects the three issues of the Angela limited series. I am glad, for this story deserved the respect of retelling in a high grade format.

_This is the mythic tale of Angela, heaven's foremost warrior for a hundred thousand years. No angel was was more decorated in the eternal battle against evil. Yet, this did not stop her arrest on the charge of treason- for pettyness and corruption had seeped into Elysium itself. To defend her, Angela's friends sought help from Al Simmons- the most recent, and most reluctant of Hellspawn. Simmons was the only Hellspawn to ever defeat- or escape- Angela and only he could testify to her innocence in conspiring with Hell...

_This is a truly mythological tale. But then why shouldn't it be? The entire theme is a retelling of the never-ending battle between the Devas and the Asuras on the intermediate planes as told in the Vedas. Indeed, the Vedas even tell us that the Devas are primarliy of female form and of great beauty (which answers Simmon's confusion as to why all the angels were "babes.")

_The art work is a match for the story. Every page is so well drawn and composed- and vibrantly colored- that it reminds you of the finest art deco. Oh yes, the cover of the book was also issued as a magnificent poster. I know because I had mine framed.

4.0 out of 5 stars A welcome extra to the earlier Spawn issues, July 1, 2001

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Ron Tothleben ([e-mail]) (Tilburg, Netherlands, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spawn: Angela's Hunt (Paperback)

After writing mostly Fantasy-influenced stories with throlls, faeries and wizards which worked out good for him, Neil Gaiman takes a risk here with the further creation of a character who later turns out to be one of the most popular members of the cast of a superhero title according to many. I myself take quite some characters over her (Billy Kincaid, Violator, Jason Wynn) but as a character that's supposed to be the perfect opposite of the Hellspawn she's indeed a very satisfying new (at the time) character. Luckily most of the story stages in Heaven and Hell, places Gaiman is familiair with since he explored them many times over already and THAT shows. His writing is being aided by the art of Greg Capullo who I think started here in showing himself to be worthy to take up drawing Spawn after McFarlane. It's obviously NOT the perfected art Capullo shows of later when he gets to draw 'Spawn' yet though, to be honest. I don't have a specific word for it but it's showing that typical "Image-look' that most Image books had in their early days.

About the story: The Angelic warrior Angela is celebrating her 100.000th birthday in her own unique fashion when all of a sudden the Hordes of Heaven come to place her under arrest. She's being put on trial for treason and conspiring with a Hellspawn (See the events in Spawn #9 to see what happened), among other things. It soon becomes clear to most that she's being set up and her friends attempt to help her. In doing so they need to get Spawn from earth and take him to heaven un-noticed to testify for Angela, the woman who once tried to kill him.

This story takes place right after #10 and is really a very good enhancement to the early days of the ongoing Spawn series. In saying that I'm also saying that it's definately NOT for people who haven't been reading the first 10 issues of Spawn, or at least #9 and 10 where the first Spawn/Angela meeting takes place. It explains a lot about some changes Angela went through between #9 and the later issues, which aren't addressed in the Spawn series itself. So when you've been a Spawn reader you must surely get this because it will only make your experience and understanding of Angela better, because it ties up some loose ends. If you haven't you should think about getting Spawn #9 and 10 first (#9,10 + the Angela minies makes a perfectly good stand-alone story without you having to go further into Spawn afterwards), or not get Angela at all. The story won't make sense otherwise.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Comic, June 26, 2002

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"heckate13" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spawn: Angela's Hunt (Paperback)

I thought this comic was great. It has a great story to it and the drawings are exelent. I thought the person who did the color on it did a great job, too.
I usally don't read the Spawn comics, but I thought this one looked interesting so I bought it. I am very happy with it and can read it over and over again.
The cover interested me by its great artwork and detail. I recomend this to fans of Spawn's Angela.