Angela And Why Should I Care

So, as some of you should already know, Angela’s ownership legal dispute is finally ended, Neil Gaiman own her, and she’ll be officially a character in MU involved in AGE OF ULTON  final. Here it is her new design and the original one.

 

If you are interested in the story of how this SPAWN character became owned by Marvel Comics, the company Todd McFarlane famously left with the other hot Marvel artists of the 90s, you can go HERE. Frankly I like to see what Gaiman will do with her. Her first appearance is attached to the Age of Ultron story and she looks to be the Deus Ex Machina that the story would need to finish up properly and, yes, logically.

 

 

 

 

 

​People sometimes forget just how much of an influence Todd McFarlane has had on modern geekdom. Aside from his role in promoting independent comics as one of the founders of Image, McFarlane also revolutionized the action figure market in the mid-1990s by emphasizing sculpt over play features or articulation. It's arguable that without McFarlane Toys, the modern adult action figure collectors' market might not exist. NECA, DC Direct, Mezco, Resaurus, Palisades - -they all followed in McFarlane's footsteps.

There were a number of figures with variants and factory errors among the early Spawn lines, but none were more famous than Angela. Angela's character was a -- wait for it -- angel who was tasked with hunting down Hellspawn. But when her action figure was produced in '95, the factory didn't paint the panties on a certain amount of the production run (whether by accident, or because she was designed that way and McFarlane later asked the factory to add the panties, is unclear). Dubbed "Party" Angela by collectors, she was a much-prized item in many a Spawn collection during those early years. Side note: the same thing happened again years later with a Stephanie McMahon WWE figure.