Spawn The Undead #4 - Song Sung Bloo
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Dramatic covers seem to be a trend in this new series. On the cover
of
the latest issue Spawn holds up something resembling a human head in a
fashion courting that of Hamlet. This issue seems to be all about
poking-fun at cults and strange religions. It starts off with a statement
about religion and it's affects on us, then goes on to introduce the Church
of Bloo, one of the more twisted religious cults. Their religion revolves
around the belief that one day the "Antarean Space Children" will come to
take them up into their mothership and into paradise. The benevolence
behing this religion is Arkon, the plastic head on the cover, who speaks
through Reverend Bloo. Upon giving all your worldy possesions to the cause
and commiting yourself to Arkon you will be deemed worthy to enter the
mothership at the time of its arrival.
When a meeting of the church commences, we find that the members feel
that they have been the subject of Spawn's spying. Bloo quickly blows this
possibility away by desiphering the plastic Akron's words "Spa Fon Zeep!" as
"Ahh...we are told "Spa Fon Zeep!". The literal translation is: you have
seen a portent of the coming of the-way-things-might-be."
As the story moves along, the true creator of the Bloo religion are
revealed to be angels. Angels seeking new souls for heaven. they soon
begin to perform small miracles, such as making the icon of Akron float
freely then explode, make strange lights appear in the sky, and cause fuel
to leak from a model-rocket in The church of Bloo. These miracles are
supposed to have the effect of deepening the faith of the members. Spawn
reveals this to Bloo in hopes of balancing the power between Heaven and
Hell.
As the miracles continue, Bloo slowly loses his sanity and the angels
realize that Spawn is more of a menace than they thought. As a final act of
insanity Bloo and his desciples commit a mass suicide in the name of Spawn.
I found this issue to be somewhat disturbing...but at times, funny. The
McFarlene team is certainly getting a little creative with this new book as
bits of subtle humor were mixed into the story-line. As far as promising
new books go, this is a ringer.
Hobar
