Well, here we are again. I'm trying this one writing piece per day thing until I get bored and go on hiatus until the next Olympics. You may ask why write these when most eyes are glazed over from TikTok shorts and are unwilling to do an honest day's reading? Welp, I suppose writing is a therapeutic business, so let's just take this as our lotus pose for now and get on with it. Battle Beast is a cool little space romp starring a pissed-off lion who is desperate to be killed so that he'll be a little less pissed off. This series kind of hits like Saitama from One-Punch Man, if he were a little furrier and more deliberate with his approach to finding a worthy match. Hang on a minute, though, we need a few sidekicks for this adventure to tick all the right boxes, and so our Battle Beast in question is joined by both a disgraced prince and an AI that is gifted with a robotic form. The former is eager to take his rightful place on a throne that was forcefully taken from a ...
Violator: Origin We Were Not Always As We Are Now Violator situated himself as one of Malebolgias more resilient and resourceful henchman within Hell's hallways, and an otherwise beloved and irreplaceable fixture in the Spawn universe as a whole. Yet even this conniving servant of the dark realm has a past, a remarkable past chronicled in Violator: Origin by Marc Andreyko. The following are the striking and inspiring images brought to the fore by the tag team of Brad Simpson and Piotr Kowalski. Enjoy. In the Beginning... Before his fall, the one we come to know as Violator was a beautiful angel named Baziel. Swayed by the words of Lucifer, Baziel came to doubt the will of his Creator and was the first to harness the residual waste of creation to become the very first Hell Spawn. War The striking image of Lucifer's war on heaven is delivered in the all too familiar artwork style that the Spawn comics have come to be known for. Re/Birth The birth of The Viola...