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Swipe File: Blood Squad Seven #3 From 2024 And Spawn #13 From 1993

Swipe File: Blood Squad Seven #3 from 2024 and Spawn #13, from 1993 but both from Image Comics... are they separated at birth?

Published Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:57:13 -0500

by Rich Johnston

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Explore the striking similarities between Blood Squad Seven #3 and Spawn #13.
Delve into Image Comics' homage trend with Joe Casey and Paul Fry's series.
Discover the nostalgic flashback to Todd McFarlane's 1993 Spawn artwork.
Anticipate the launch of Blood Squad Seven #3 and the introduction of Ripcord 3.0.

Bleeding Cool previously reported about how Blood Squad Seven #2 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry, from Image Comics in June, featuring the Savage Dragon, set in 1992. And would include a swipe or homage to Savage Dragon #3, the first mini-series by Erik Larsen from 1992. Well, it looks like they are doing something very similar with issue 3, this time set in 1993, with pages from Todd McFarlane's Spawn #13 published in 1993… so we have Blood Squad Seven #3…

And Spawn #13… again with the Squad taking the role of guest-stars Youngblood.

From Blood Squad Seven…

…and from Spawn #13…

And bringing back Ripcord as well… Blood Squad Seven #3 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry goes to FOC this weekend.

BLOOD SQUAD SEVEN #3 CVR A FRY (MR)
IMAGE COMICS
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(W) Joe Casey (A/CA) Paul Fry
The truth revealed! A serpent in the garden! As rot from deep within threatens to take down the new team before they've even launched, drastic measures are taken to control the story-no matter who has to die in the process! And introducing, Ripcord 3. 0!In Shops: Jul 24, 2024 SRP: $3.99

Call it Separated At Birth or call it Swipe File, we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences, or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you are unable to do so, we ask that you please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. Separated At Borth doesn't judge; it is interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artists collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal, who originally ran a similar column and the now-defunct Swipe Of The Week website, but Separated At Birth was considered a less antagonistic title.

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