Customer Reviews
Good enhancment - By: Ron Tothleben (tothleben@hotmail.com), 01 Jul 2001 
After writing mostly Fantasy-influenced stories with throlls, faeries & wizards which worked out good for him, Neil Gaiman takes a risk here with the further creation of a character who later turns out to be one of the most popular members of the cast of a superhero title according to many. I myself take quite some characters over her (Billy Kincaid, Violator, Jason Wynn) but as a character that's supposed to be the perfect opposite of the Hellspawn she's indeed a very satisfying new (at the time) character. Luckily most of the story stagesin Heaven & Hell, places Gaiman is familiair with since he explored them many times over already & THAT shows. His writing is being aided by the art of Greg Capullo who I think started herein showing himself to be worthy to take up drawing Spawn after McFarlane. It's obviously NOT the perfected art Capullo shows of later when he gets to draw 'Spawn' yet though, to be honest. I don't have a specific word for it but it's showing that typical "Image-look' that most Image books hadin their early days.
About the story: The Angelic warrior Angela is celebrating her 100.000th birthdayin her own unique fashion when all of a sudden the Hordes of Heaven come to place her under arrest. She's being put on trial for treason & conspiring with a Hellspawn (See the eventsin Spawn #9 to see what happened), among other things. It soon becomes clear to most that she's being set up & her friends attempt to help her. In doing so they need to get Spawn from earth & take him to heaven un-noticed to testify for Angela, the woman who once tried to kill him.
This story takes place right after #10 & is really a very good enhancement to the early days of the ongoing Spawn series. In saying that I'm also saying that it's definately NOT for people who haven't been reading the first 10 issues of Spawn, or at least #9 & 10 where the first Spawn/Angela meeting takes place. It explains a lot about some changes Angela went through between #9 & the later issues, which aren't addressedin the Spawn series itself. So when you've been a Spawn reader you must surely get this because it will only make your experience & understanding of Angela better, because it ties up some loose ends. If you haven't you should think about getting Spawn #9 & 10 first (#9,10 + the Angela minies makes a perfectly good stand-alone story without you having to go further into Spawn afterwards), or not get Angela at all. The story won't make sense otherwise.
Artwork out of this world - By: , 16 May 2001 Artwork is amazing with an average story line. Not typical spawn but makes an interesting alternative.
Brilliant Spawn spin-off - By: , 16 Feb 2001 
This story is written by Neil Gaiman (creator of the Sandman), which means that my expectations were very high. I was not disappointed. A well thought out story with believable interesting characters & exquisite artwork. An absolute must for every Spawn fan.
