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When Todd McFarlane talked about his series Scorched being his first creator-owned team book, I did have to correct him What about Boof And The Bruised Crew, I asked? He skipped over that quickly, almost too quickly.     Boof and The Bruise Crew were created by Todd McFarlane at a high school, and they were picked on[...]

Now, after expressing plenty of interest in directing the feature film himself, it's been revealed that Spawn creator Todd McFarlane isn't going to helm the next franchise installment after all. Spawn #343 (W) Rory McConville (A) Carlo Barberi (CA) Chris Stevens Credit: Image Comics. The Plan for a Big-Budget Spawn Movie When discussing the shift in plans for[...]

An LITG runaround the previous day on Bleeding Cool, as well as the past four years and all the comic industry birthdays we can fine.

An LITG runaround the previous day on Bleeding Cool, and the past three years on the site, as well as comic industry birthdays being celebrated.

We can't believe you did them as warm ups! Todd McFarlane, oh my god, the build up to Spawn #300 was a masterclass Jim Valentino, we loved The Last Shadowhawk and need more! Whilce Portacio, you and Brian need to keep doing Bishop, Legends wasn't enough! Marc Silvestri, that new Batman book is insanely gorgeous![...]

But it all began over thirty years ago with the release of Spawn #1 from Todd McFarlane, the second comic published by Image Comics that followed Rob Liefeld's Youngblood Spawn #1 sold 1.7 million copies to comic book retailers on the basis of a speculator market who believed that it would go up in value, no matter[...]

This week sees the launch of what may be DC's biggest-selling comic book of the year, Batman/Spawn by Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo Todd McFarlane told me earlier in the year, about  the Court of Owls, something established in more recent Batman continuity, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo And it came up talking to[...]

We have seven pages of Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo's Spawn/Batman #1, out next week, as a preview And drawing a comparison between the two, with just a little bit of fridging for good measure. The Fridging of Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo's Batman/Spawn Next Week And we have a few pages[...]

Tomorrow's Batman #130, Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #3 and Poison Ivy #7 feature the first of the Spawn-featured DC Comics variant covers featuring DC Comics and Spawn characters ahead of the upcoming Batman/Spawn crossover by Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo But we do have a look at the upcoming crossover itself as well,[...]

I don't think we've quite found the answer to what to do with Angela yet, though—removed from her connection to the SPAWN mythos, there's not all that much to her, and our attempts to cement her into Thor's family tree haven't entirely taken off the way we might have hoped." "We Haven't Found The Answer What To[...]

Previously on Bleeding Cool, I talked with Todd McFarlane about his current Batman/Spawn crossover he is working on with Greg Capullo, being published by DC Comics But I also wanted to talk to him about another potential project that his attendance at D23 Expo in the light of the Batman/Spawn crossover had drawn attention to[...]

Todd McFarlane is under the weather when I talk to him Just back from D23 Expo, I thought it might have tired him out a bit but it's worse than that "I'm recovering from Covid now." Oh, did he catch it from Mickey Mouse, I asked? Is that what we were saying here? "I don't[...]

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When Todd McFarlane announced that he would be appearing at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, this weekend, quite a lot of people got excited Todd McFarlane is returning to DC Comics for a Spawn/Batman crossover, with DC reprinting his previous crossover issues So, for Spider-Man's 60th anniversary, could we be getting the long-wished-for Spider-Man/Spawn[...]

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The history between Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman is a rather strained one Todd McFarlane hired Neil Gaiman to write an issue of Spawn, as well as the spin-off mini-series Angela, in which he introduced characters such as Angela, Cogliostro, Medieval Spawn, Anahita, Kuan Yin, Saranyu, Surielle, Callindra, Metatron, Rafael and Smut The legal cases[...]

So what is it about some comic book folks who still think taking their precious IPs to television/streaming is "slumming" compared to being up on the big screen in a movie theater? Or the ones that think their IP is so originally profound that it will change… the very essence of television as we know[...]

And while he won't have made many saying that there are indeed no plans to restore a Snyderverse… Twitter vid screencaps from Jim Lee Friends panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 …Jim Lee did get Todd McFarlane from his Image Comics partner days, to confirm that they will be creating a Batman/Spawn comic book with Greg Capullo[...]

Back in 2014, Bleeding Cool ran the story that Grant Morrison was to return to write for Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic book after a previously rather lucrative three-issue run in the book's second year, twenty years previously We reported "We've been told by industry sources that legendary world-respected comics author Grant Morrison, as well as[...]

As part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage Auctions, the entirety of the original artwork – that which is available – for Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man #16, the sideways issue that crossed over with Rob Liefeld's X-Force #4, is up for auction, from the cover to the final double-page[...]

After 23 years, Todd McFarlane is getting back into animation, with Deadline Hollywood reporting exclusively that McFarlane Films is teaming up with wiip & Warner Bros Discovery's Rooster Teeth Studios for an adult animated series inspired by McFarlane Toys' RAW10 action figures Spotlighting a group of cybernetically enhanced animals, Dan Dominguez's (GEN: Lock) animated series[...]

Todd McFarlane has already conquered the world of comics, but he has his sights set on a new goal: destroying the Earth's climate and hastening the demise of the human race via NFTs McFarlane and Steve Aoki's new NFT platform, Oddkey.com, opens for official business today, May 16th, at 6PM PST, allowing sucke– er, NFT[...]

And Spawn publisher Todd McFarlane didn't know he hadn't returned it and only came across it last year, in a box in his garage As he explains, tongue in cheek, in his letter. Angela by Joyce Chin, photo by Rich Johnston "Dear Joyce – I'm so sorry for the delay in getting this artwork back to you[...]

At Heritage Auctions today is a CGC 9.8 copy of issue #50 from that series, which actually features a pin-up by none other than Todd McFarlane, as well as Dave McKean, Michael Kaluta, and John Totleben, to name a few It currently is at $110 Check it out below. Credit Heritage Auctions Sandman Books Are A Sneaky[...]

Todd McFarlane has revealed his final X-Men #1 homage cover to his Scorched series which runs from #3 to #6, taking on the original X-Men #1 cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams that saw the launch issue sell eight million copies back in 1991 This will sell a little less. Todd McFarlane's Jim Lee X-Men Cover[...]

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Recently I talked to Spawn creator, Todd McFarlane, about the current state of play of his comic book publishing empire Which, after 2020 and 2021, is a little more of an empire than it used to be As he moved from publishing one monthly-ish comic book to four, Spawn, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The[...]

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Recently I talked to Spawn creator, Todd McFarlane, about the current state of play of his comic book publishing empire Which, after 2020 and 2021, is a little more of an empire than it used to be As he moved from publishing one monthly-ish comic book to four, Spawn, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The[...]