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Rat City & Other Todd McFarlane Spawn Comics From Image In April 2024

Image Comics' April 2024 solicits include the previously announced future Spawn spinoff Rat City by Erica Schultz and Ze Carlos.

Image Comics' April 2024 solicits include the previously announced future Spawn spinoff Rat City by Erica Schultz and Ze Carlos. At New York Comic-Con, Todd McFarlane announced a new creative team for Spawn in 2024, with a new Spawn comic book called Rat City, to be written by Erica Schultz and drawn by Ze Carlos. He tweeted the news, as well as art examples, saying "FIRST FEMALE SPAWN WRITER! FOLKS! We announced a TON of NEW books at New York Comic Con. This book is called 'RAT CITY' and is written by the FIRST FEMALE SPAWN WRITER, @EricaSchultz42 and art by Ze Carlos. Here's a look at INTERIOR PAGES and TOMORROW, I'll show you a SNEAK PEEK at Spawn's NEW COSTUME!"

Erica Schultz describes the new Spawn as a cybernetic Spawn in the future, who becomes a Hellspawn in an unlikely way. And his name is Peter Cairn. Schultz was originally an art director at an advertising agency, hired by Neal Adams' Continuity Studios, where she inked and coloured Neal Adams titles such as Batman: Odyssey, The First X-Men, The Coming of the Supermen, and Blood. Part of DC Comics' first Writers Workshop, she wrote the digital comic Forgotten Home, as well as Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne from Marvel, a graphic novel based on the TV series. Working with Gail Simone on the Swords Of Sorrow crossover, she then relaunched the Dynamite series Charmed and wrote the ongoing Xena comic. She saw her series Twelve Devils Dancing picked up by Action Lab, Bylines In Blood from AfterShock, and wrote X-23, Hallow's Eve, What If, Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil for Marvel, as well as the current Gang War event. Ze Carlos is a Brazilian comic artist best known in the US for Spider-Man, Angel, Fantastic Four and Captain America.

Now we have the soliict for that first issue, as well as art examples. Here's a preview of Rat City as well as a look at other Spawn-related titles in Image's April 2024 solicits.

RAT CITY #1
SERIES PREMIERE
The EXTRA-LENGTH first issue of RAT CITY has finally arrived and features the talents of ERICA SCHULTZ (THE DEADLIEST BOUQUET, Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood) and ZE CARLOS (Captain America, Strange Academy: Moon Knight). Peter Cairn is an ex-soldier, an amputee, and a Hellspawn in a post-war future. But Peter's not dead like Al. Peter got his Spawn powers from the nanites in his prosthetic legs—nanites that were affected when Al Simmons initiated his necroplasmic detonation in the present. Al had no clue that the effects would ripple across not just space, and but time as well.
40 PAGES FULL COLOR S3.99 US T+ TEEN PLUS (AGES 16+) APRIL 10

SAM AND TWITCH: CASE FILES #2
ON SALE APRIL 24
The hunt for a murderer brings to light an old case our two distinguished detectives thought long closed. Could there be a missing connection?
24 PAGES FULL COLOR $2.99 US T+ TEEN PLUS (AGES 16+)
STORY TODD McFARLANE
ART SZYMON KUDRAŃSKI
COVER THADDEUS ROBECK

THE SCORCHED #29
24 PAGES FULL COLOR $2.99 US T+ TEEN PLUS (AGES 16+)
ON SALE APRIL 17
STORY JOHN LAYMAN
ART STEPHEN SEGOVIA
COVER A MARCIAL TOLEDANO VARGAS
COVER B VON RANDAL
The one pulling the strings behind the organization hunting down the Scorched is finally revealed. It's a familiar face that one team member thought they would never see again.

SPAWN #353
24 PAGES FULL COLOR $2.99 US T+ TEEN PLUS (AGES 16+)
ON SALE APRIL 24
STORY RORY McCONVILLE, TODD McFARLANE
ART BRETT BOOTH
COVER A THADDEUS ROBECK
COVER B FRANCESCO MATTINA
Now that Vampire Lord Bludd has returned to power, he's set in motion a plan to rid the world of Al Simmons—once and for all.

GUNSLINGER SPAWN #31
ON SALE APRIL 3
With Gunslinger's powers failing him, he'll have to turn to the techniques and discipline that those in his past taught him.
24 PAGES FULL COLOR $2.99 US T+ TEEN PLUS (AGES 16+)
STORY TODD McFARLANE
ART CARLO BARBERI
COVER A FRANCESCO MATTINA
COVER B JAVI FERNANDEZ

KING SPAWN #33
ON SALE APRIL 10
While learning to cope with the new status quo, Al receives a message from someone he'd long thought dead—a message that shakes him to his core.
24 PAGES FULL COLOR $2.99 US T+ TEEN PLUS (AGES 16+)
STORY TODD McFARLANE
ART JAVI FERNANDEZ
COVER A PUPPETEER LEE
COVER B PAUL RENAUD

SPAWN: UNWANTED VIOLENCE TP
104 PAGES FULL COLOR $12.99 US M MATURE (AGES 18+)
ON SALE APRIL 10
STORY TODD McFARLANE
ART | COVER MIKE DEL MUNDO
SPAWN: UNWANTED VIOLENCE is a gripping two-part miniseries that combines the writing of TODD McFARLANE and the stunning art of MIKE DEL MUNDO, with bonus behindthe- scenes extras. Spawn faces a moral dilemma witnessing senseless violence, while THE FREAK uncovers "File F." As tension rises and police target SPAWN, he has to inevitably confront morality and the essence of good and evil. Collects SPAWN: UNWANTED VIOLENCE #1-2

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