In addition to his larger historical moves
(launching Marvel’s Spider-Man and co-founding Image Comics come to mind), Todd
McFarlane made at least a little bit of history when he hired Brian Michael
Bendis to write Sam & Twitch. To that point, the duo had been
bumbling, shuffling supporting characters in Spawn. McFarlane thought there was
more to them and let Bendis, then still best known as an indy crime comics
writer-artist, find out what that “more” was. It was, in hindsight,
a brilliant move.

Bendis quickly established that not only did he know
these characters, he knew them very well. Angel Medina did a great job with the
art on the “Udaku” story arc collected in this volume. Presuming it
does well, we hope this means we’ll see the first Bendis-Alex Maleev
collaboration in a second volume (it lead to them working together on
Daredevil).

There was a previous version of this trade, but it was
in black in white. This one’s color and has one more issue in it, too. Great
read.