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For Spawn 220, the twentieth anniversary edition of Spawn, Todd McFarlane is doing variant covers aping his fellow Image artists We've seen his Savage Dragon #1-styled cover, now have a look at his version of Youngblood #1 with a variety of Spawns and Spawnettes. The original is below… Originally the homage covers were incentives for ordering certain[...]

I'll be interviewing Eric Stephenson again soon… I'll try to hide just how impressed I am.   SPAWN #220 CVR A MCFARLANE (NOTE PRICE) (W) Will Carlton (A) Szymon Kudranski (CA) Todd McFarlane story TODD MCFARLANE art SZYMON KUDRANSKI cover a TODD McFARLANE TODD McFARLANE RETURNS TO SPAWN AS WRITER AND COVER ARTIST! Celebrate SPAWN's 20th Anniversary with this special landmark release. Jim Downing[...]

Recently, Todd McFarlane came clean – the man credited as writing Spawn for the last couple of years, one Will Carlton, was actually Todd himself. We're heading into the 20th anniversary of Spawn  That'll be issue 220  I'm going to jump on board and do the covers starting with that issue  I'll start doing some goofy[...]

Thanks to Daniel Best who pulled out a bunch of legal papers on the Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane case over owed moneys, showing that as part of the lawsuit,

Certainly quicker that the time it took to settle a certain case. It began back in 1993 when Neil Gaiman was approached to work on Spawn by Todd McFarlane He wrote issue 9, introducing characters Cogliostro, Medieval Spawn and Angela, wrote the spinoff Angela mini-series introducing the angelica to the Spawn universe and found three other[...]

This is the cover to Spawn #216, by Todd McFarlane But not this Todd McFarlane This is the Todd McFarlane back in the early nineties Originally planned (and solicited) for #19, featuring The Freak, it was never used – and the issue was replaced by one writen by Tom Orzechowski and drawn by Greg Capullo. But[...]

Greg Capullo, artist on Haunt and long time Spawn comics collaborator, looks like he'll be jumping off his current Image title to the Big Two. Both DC and Marvel appear to be headhunting him, for either Batman or Superman on one side or Wolverine with Brian Bendis on the other. And he has to choose. As to why[...]

From the Golden Apple signing for the release of Spawn #200 yesterday Wonderfully aged, don't you think? Photo by Stephen Christy. From the Golden Apple signing for the release of Spawn #200 yesterday Wonderfully aged, don't you think? Photo by Stephen Christy. From the Golden Apple signing for the release of Spawn #200 yesterday Wonderfully aged, don't[...]

Included the much flaunted Spawn #200, Star Wars Knight Errant #4, BPRD Hell On Earth Gods #1, Infinite Vacation #1, Walking Dead Weekly #2, Hack Slack: Me Without You, Halcyon #3, Savage Dragon #168, Dark Tower Gunslinger Little Sisters Eluria #2, Thor: Mighty Avenger #8, Incredible Hulks #620, Avengers Poster Book, Super Heroes #10, Black[...]

Todd McFarlane writes "Here's a panel from the ever expanding SPAWN #200 It's a fight between Violator and Omega Spawn. And here  it is Todd McFarlane writes "Here's a panel from the ever expanding SPAWN #200 It's a fight between Violator and Omega Spawn. And here  it is Todd McFarlane writes "Here's a panel from the ever expanding SPAWN #200[...]

The idea that Todd's wisecrack was the philosophy of a generation is ludicrous. Naturally the thread began to drift, onto Image's record as a publisher, and the lawsuit with Neil Gaiman over the ownership of certain characters featured in Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic, found in Gaiman's favour, though Todd then made the liable company bankrupt. Neil got[...]