I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
I'm going back and reading all of the Spawn's I've bought on sale. This just happens to be one of them. I think I just really loved the action in the cover, but the comic itself was more talking things out.
I was confused as to how this fit into everything, but I was also reading along until the end, happy to be caught up in this universe again. I gave Downing a try - as in I bought some issues with him that interested me, so I'll read those, too. I don't love him as much as Simmons. I expected to hate him, though. Simmons was Spawn to me, but Downing holds his own in this issue.
Let's see how this continues, though.