Hope started fading when Neil was downgraded to “consultant”, but I held on.
I worried about Marvel getting their hands on her, but I was excited to see Gaiman’s name linked with her. So when Marvel announced that Neil Gaiman was bringing Angela to Marvel after winning a lawsuit regarding her ownership, I was cautiously excited. She had a definite origin, she had a definite look, and she developed a fanboy and fangirl following right away, even earning a cameo in the oft-maligned (but really not that bad) 1997 Spawn movie. What made Angela’s appearances amazing in the early Spawn issues and her mini-series is the fact that Neil Gaiman wrote her, and both McFarlane and Capullo gave her life. Everyone’s happy, except for Al, but that’s kind of the whole point of Spawn, isn’t it? Angela clears her name, the guilty are punished, and she decides to go freelance. They end up in one of the castles of Hell and work their way back aboveground. Naturally, his cape flips out at being in such hostile territory he’s revealed as a Hellspawn, and he and Angela need to get out of Dodge.
Her friends head to earth to grab Al and bring him to Elysium, home of the angels, and sneak him into Angela’s trial to stand as a witness. Angela’s she’s set up by an angel with a grudge, accused of treason, and stripped of her status. She’s been at this for a long time, and she knows that you have to kill the Hellspawn while they’re young and still inexperienced.Īngela’s spear becomes a central plot point in the Angela 3-issue mini-series (1994-1995), written by Gaiman and drawn by Greg Capullo. We get some background in the issue’s beginning, where she lures a Medieval Spawn to his doom by posing as a damsel in distress. Angela is fierce – she’s all swords and spears, sharp edges and ribbons, and she’s a hunter, menacing and smart. Spawn #9 is gorgeously drawn – it’s a Todd McFarlane piece, of course it’s gorgeous. They tussled, his cape went into defense mode, and sucked the two into another dimension Angela flees for her life, leaving her spear behind.
Created by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane Angela made her debut in Spawn #9 way back in 1993 when she came to earth to hunt poor Al Simmons – Spawn – who had no idea what her problem was.
A redheaded, badass angel who hunted Hellspawn. This week, after suffering the slings and arrows of Marvel’s retconned Angela, I decided it was time to look back fondly, when Angela was written by Neil Gaiman and was an absolute badass from Heaven.Ī long time ago – about 20 years now – in a galaxy not very far away, an angel appeared. Since Throwback Thursday has become a popular thing all over the interwebs, I thought I’d take a trip through my longboxes and come up with a Throwback Thursday offering of my own.
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