Episode #09 - Colors of Blood
Original Airdate - May 29th, 1998
Wynn turns to Wanda after he's unable to find Terry after his hitmen
failed. Spawn takes care of some local drug dealers that are killing the
alley bums.
Media and Review by Bird Boy |
Credits
Written by Larry Brody, John Shirley and Victor Bumbalo
Directed by Mike Vosburg
Music by Shirley Walker
Animation by Mad House, LTD., D.R. Movie
Voices
Keith David as Spawn
Richard Dysart as Cogliostro
Michael Nicolosi as Clown
Dominuqe Jennings as Wanda Blake
Victor Love as Terry Fitzgerald, Bobby
James Keane as Sam Burke
Micahel McShane as Twitch Williams, Gareb
John Rafter Lee as Jason Wynn
Denise Poirier as Merrick
Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Jess Chapel
John DiMaggio, Charlie Adler, Michael Scott Ryan, Rickie Dean
Logan, Lewis Arquette, Brenda Vaccaro as Additional Vocies
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Review: For some reason this episode
always stood out to me. Perhaps because it was just such a departure
from what was this seasons overall theme. It focuses almost exclusively
on the alley denizens and their troubles with a nearby drug dealer.
Spawn eventually takes out the dealer and all his men, though all this
does is harvest more souls for Malebolgia. Still, it was good to see the
bastards go down after seeing two of the “bums” killed (and subsequently
thrown into the sewer).
Visuals were a very strong part of this episode. One of my favorite
shots of the entire series has Spawn standing in front of a church
window with red light bleeding out of it. This illuminates some of his
cloak as well as his face and it’s just a killer shot. There’s a variant
of it that’s repeated a few times throughout the episode, but the fully
body shot at the end is the one I love—one of the many “money shots” in
the show.
The ending with the drug dealer’s brother being tied up in chains
reminded me of the death of Billy Kincaid in one of the early issues of
Spawn. It’s a great pan shot, with the corpse swinging back and forth
with blood dripping down. That may make me sound morbid, but there’s
something about the shot that’s both disturbing and yet…”sweet”,
probably, again, because of the bums these guys had killed earlier in
the show.
Overall a good episode; not much action but we see Spawn slowly becoming
more human over the course of the series. At least in terms of
emotion—he certainly still has an inhuman urge to maim and kill.
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