Bleeding Cool told you that Spawn's Universe #1, the new launch titles for Todd McFarlane's new series of Spawn titles kicking off in 2021, would be Image Comics' best-selling launch issue of the century And so it has turned out, with orders of over 200,000, as reported by Image Comics "Well over" 200,000 it seems[...]
spawn Archives
The launch of Spawn's Universe #1 utterly dominated Advance Reorders this week, taking the top four with variant covers, and six of the top ten With Gamma Flight #1 struggling to get into the top ten as a result…
Spawn Universe Dominates Advance Reorders Chart
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers[...]
Todd McFarlane has been teasing much about the upcoming Spawn's Universe #1 We know it already has more orders than anything else put out by Image Comics this century But he still doesn't seem to think that this is enough And looking at recent Batman success, and with the FOC date for Spawn's Universe #1[...]
Sorry for the delay and if any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.
Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week
TMNT: The Last Ronin #3 and Fortnite Top Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
The long-awaited third issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin was the bestseller this week but only narrowly[...]
This is an attempt to sift through them all and find the most relevant items.
What's FOC-ing today?
Extraordinary to Spawn Universe, Thank FOC It's 28th of May, 2021
Titan Comics launches V.E Schwab and Enid Balam's Extraordinary #1 Will anyone see this coming?
Black Hammer Reborn #1 by Jeff Lemire and Caitlin Yarsky launches from Dark Horse, returnable for[...]
When I spoke to Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn, last week, he mentioned a little nugget that I thought deserved its own space Wed discussed the upcoming Venom 2 movie, using the character he co-created for Marvel Comics, now getting a second movie But I also asked him about his plans to bring in other[...]
Today, we have some new additions in Spawn ready to spawn new deals, Netflix's Geeked Week, Fear the Walking Dead, Titans, and The CW's The Powerpuff Girls pilot But just in case you missed some articles over the past day, we've also hand-curated some articles that are definitely worth your time From there, we take[...]
Todd McFarlane is the creator of the comic book Spawn, which has spun off into a number of comics, animation, games, and even a movie He's also been involved in the development of other projects that he didn't create, such as Brian Bendis' Torso This weekend, I talked to Todd about his current Spawn comic[...]
When Image Comics launched, its first few titles such as Youngblood, Spawn, Savage Dragon, Shadowhawk, Wetworks, and WildCATS all hit seven figures in comic store orders for their launch issues, before numbers settled down to a more manageable level, and five-figure sales were the norm In recent years, Image Comics have started to see their[...]
I love looking at the drawings as they expand with more details emerging every time I look." —Debbie Harry (Blondie, Face It: A Memoir)
KING SPAWN #1
WRITERS: SEAN LEWIS & TODD McFARLANE
ARTISTS: JAVIER FERNANDEZ, BRETT BOOTH, PHILIP TAN, STEPHEN SEGOVIA, TODD McFARLANE & MARCIO TAKARA
COVER A: PUPPETEER LEE
COVER B: TODD McFARLANE
COVER C: DAVID FINCH
COVER D: SEAN GORDON MURPHY
AUGUST 11 /[...]
August sees the first of Todd McFarlane's new ongoing Spawn spinoff launches with King Spawn, referring to the King Conan stories, with Conan in his latter years With Javier Fernandez, Brett Booth, Philip Tan, Stephen Segovia, Todd McFarlane, Marcio Takara and more on art I'll be talking about this – and the wider Spawn Universe[...]
On the back will be the cover to King Spawn, the new ongoing series from Todd McFarlane.And on the order form will be Jeff Lemire and Tyler Crook's new Black Hammer universe series, The Unbelievable Unteens.
ON OUR FRONT COVER: A woman enters a psychedelic world in which children turn into dolls inside a mysterious house[...]
Image Comics will be sending comic book retailers a free Spawn #318 overship of a special Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane virgin black-and-white cover variant for this May.
Image Comics Overship Spawn #318 With Black & White Variant
This overship amount will be 20% of the retailers' order across the three standard covers of Spawn #318 The freight[...]
Will she be given a kind of amnesty and be born anew as a better person thanks to Karmen's intervention? Or will she be lost to herself and all those she loves, including Xisco? In this exhilarating dénouement and epilogue, we see what Cata's future holds for her.
#gallery-14 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-14 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width:[...]
They also have another McFarlane page, this time the cover to Spawn #62 featuring Angela, created with Greg Capullo Also ending on the 1st of April, it is currently for a more modest $3,900 That won't last… here are the listings.
Todd McFarlane and Al Gordon Incredible Hulk #346 Unpublished Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1988) Rock-star artist and[...]
Recently, Todd McFarlane talked to Bleeding Cool about his plans to launch a new "world-building" universe, with the 52-page $5.99 Spawn's Universe #1 in June Written by Todd, with Spawn art by Jim Cheung, Gunslinger Spawn by Brett Booth, She-Spawn by Marcio Takara and Medieval Spawn by Stephen Segovia His plan is to build a[...]
This is the guy I was telling you about." At that point, Spawn was at the top of the charts (remember when we first started) He went store-wide with Spawn It was easy then to walk into Walmart and say, "Hey, your competitor's got this." They bought it[...]
Spawn is back in the spotlight as he continues to receive a huge set of love from McFarlane Toys and fans Fans are finally getting their hands on the long-awaited Remastered Kickstarter figure, and collectors want more A variety of Spawn figures are already released, with a majority of them coming out of McFarlane Toys[...]
Spawn is getting the gold treatment as McFarlane Toys reveals their next Gold Label Collection figure This version giving Al Simmons his Curse of Apocalypse skin for the hit fighting game Mortal Kombat 11 The figure is set to be exclusive to Walmart, so it will be quite tricky to find since but are slated[...]
Spawn's Universe, Jupiter's Legacy: Requiem, Compass and Vinyl all launch in Image Comics June 2021 solicitations and solicits, below, and we get the return of Ant and Ascender…
IMAGE COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR JUNE 2021
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;
}
#gallery-1 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */
JUPITER'S LEGACY:[...]
DC gets three Future State into the Top Ten, with two other titles, Marvel has four including a surprise Black Panther – and Spawn gets a strong placing too But it's not looking too dissimilar than it would have twenty-five years ago.
X-Men #18
Future State: Dark Detective #4
Batman: Black and White #3
Amazing Spider-Man #60
Spawn #315
Black Panther[...]
The previous issue gave us both Cates, Shaw and and Eliot Rahal's The Paybacks, and Michael Allred's Madman, who continue in this issue.
And he continues to namedrop other characters, willing the audience to get excited about the mentions.
"Spawn" at random intervals?"
"Overkill"? With Donny Cates lined up to contribute to upcoming Spawn series for Todd McFarlane,[...]
It's Scorched time! Today, at the comic book store owner online summit, ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general[...]
Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the second[...]
Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 But he wants it to be clear that this is not just a bunch of[...]
Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the first[...]
Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 He talked to me earlier this week about what he's doing and why he's doing[...]
Image Comics' President Todd McFarlane announced his plan to create a greater multi-character, interconnected comic book universe based around his Spawn comic at the retailer summit, ComicsPRO His stated goal is to establish a shared fictional universe over time in the vein of what the other comic industry giants, Marvel, and DC Comics, have accomplished[...]
McFarlane Toys has listed their newest Mortal Kombat 11 figure as Spawn is back for more bloody action Unlike previous releases, this version of Spawn will feature his Dark Ages Skin from the Mortal Kombat 11 Kombat Pack DLC The figure will stand 12" tall and is listed as a static figure making this more[...]
Image Comics will be sending comic book stores a free overship of the Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane black-and-white cover variant of Spawn #315 this February.
Spawn #315 Cover E B&W Greg Capullo/Todd McFarlane Variant
This overship amount will be 20% of the retailers' order (total, across covers A, B & C) of Spawn #315[...]