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I'm talking to Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn, about the latest orders of his new comic, King Spawn, the first new ongoing series featuring the character in many years It has received orders of 497,000 from comic book stores, and he is comparing that to other big orders in recent years, asking if I know[...]

The launch of Todd McFarlane's second ongoing Spawn series King Spawn #1 launches in August and naturally has a bunch of variant covers We already mentioned that Donny Cates had drawn one, in return for Todd's cover for Crossover But Todd McFarlane has planned a 1:250 retailer incentive intended to be the lowest print run ever[...]

Todd McFarlane took to the Comic-Con@Home panel to talk about all things Spawn and Spawn's Universe And he concluded with a look at what was going on with his various businesses, alongside the likes of J Scott Campbell and Sean Lewis. Todd McFarlane On The Future Of Spawn in Comics, Toys, TV and Movies As well as establishing four[...]

In October, Todd McFarlane launches his third ongoing Spawn series from Image Comics, Gunslinger Spawn, written by him with Ales Kot, drawn by Brett Booth, Philip Tan and Kevin Keane Here are the details from Previewsworld – as well as for issues of King Spawn and Spawn also in October And for November? The new[...]

And with Todd McFarlane inks, clearly the best one to date. Donny Cates & Todd McFarlane's King Spawn #1 Cover He had previously tweeted a key detail from the cover saying "This is the coolest sh-t I've ever seen". Donny Cates & Todd McFarlane's King Spawn #1 Cover detail But he also had comments for all the haters out[...]

Donny Cates tweeted last night "Just had a rad phone call with Todd McFarlane Man, my life is awesome sometimes You guys are in for some amazing stuff!" But what could it be? Well, this listing for an FOC cover for the upcoming King Spawn #1 may reveal all Or at least reveal what the[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Todd McFarlane's Dark, Twisted Shazam – The Daily LITG 3rd July, 2021 The world keeps turning, and America is beginning to heal from all the burns Even if a few scabs need pulling off first. Shazam Becomes Dark And Twisted With McFarlane Toys Newest Release The Flash Update:[...]

Might this have been a tribute to them? Since Todd is delving far into the past? The Invisible Book One, cover by Brian Bolland Especially as another gas-masked fellow joins the Universe… taking down anything with a supernatural bent… SPAWN #319 CVR A BARENDS IMAGE COMICS APR210333 (W) Todd McFarlane (A) Carlo Barberi (CA) Bjorn Barends This is where it all starts,[...]

Meanwhile, Hutch is now divorced from Chloe and going back to his old criminal ways, wearing his father's Skyfox costume and hoping to make a little drug money by joining a supervillain gang for the biggest raid of his career. In Shops: Sep 15, 2021 SRP: $3.99 JUPITERS LEGACY REQUIEM #4 (OF 12) CVR B GARNER (MR) IMAGE COMICS JUPITERS[...]

Todd McFarlane redefined Spider-Man and really Marvel Comics when he hoped onboard Amazing Spider-Man with issue #298 He wasn't on the book too long, but he left a mark that no other creator since Lee and Ditko on Web-Head This book has been a key that flew under the radar for a little while, but[...]

Such as a handful of pages by Todd McFarlane from Amazing Spider-Man, Detective Comics, Spider-Man, and Spawn #50… and just ahead of Spawn's Universe, Venom 2, and the Sam And Twitch TV show bringing a greater focus on his work The auctions are split to see the artwork from Spider-Man #5, Detective Comics #676 Amazing[...]

It is the phrase that Donny seized upon from Todd McFarlane when Todd was once asked to explain the popularity of Spawn when co-creating the character Overkill with Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld for the Comic Book Greats video from around 1991 Todd McFarlane is the co-creator of Venom, today sees the last issue of Donny[...]

The unique thing about this figure was that it was a version of the Bat that was designed by Todd McFarlane himself The legendary comic artist and writer has been responsible for a whole slew of amazing characters in comics like Venom and Spawn It is always unique to see a new spin on such[...]

Todd McFarlane just announced a new adaptation of the Spawn spin-off comic book Sam And Twitch by wiip, the studio behind The Mare Of Easttown for HBO and the upcoming Toast Of Tinseltown for the BBC But this is not the first time around the block for the comic book featuring the police detectives Sam[...]

The TV studio with the weird lowercase name behind HBO's new hit Mare Of Easttown, wiip, have signed to adapt Todd McFarlane's Spawn spinoff Sam And Twitch as a TV series Sam And Twitch were the two characters, police detectives Sam Burke and "Twitch" Williams, created by Todd McFarlane, with a little help from Lance[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

In a conversation with Todd McFarlane – and more of that later – he told me that "the early orders are tracking for it to be our biggest launch in almost 25 years, so it makes it our biggest new launch in the 21st Century". Spawn Universe #1 is going to FOC this coming weekend, so[...]

We have the Image Comics full solicits and solicitations for July 2021, with new comics from JH Williams III, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Skottie Young, Linda Sejic… but no, still no Saga. IMAGE COMICS SOLICITATIONS FOR AUGUST 2021 ECHOLANDS #1 WRITERS: J H WILLIAMS III & W HADEN BLACKMAN ARTISTS: J H WILLIAMS III & DAVE STEWART COVER A: J[...]

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[...]

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[...]

This is a big part of why so many Batman and Detective Comics covers are so memorable.  The Dark Knight's emotionally dark iconography stands the test of time, it seems.  For example, the 1939 Bob Kane cover for Detective Comics #31 is often cited as one of the high points of the series for its[...]

The price it carries, however, is unimaginable. THE SIX SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON #2 WRITER: KYLE STARKS ARTIST / COVER A: CHRIS SCHWEIZER COVER B: AFU CHAN JULY 14 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99 "Fresh and action-packed, THE SIX SIDEKICKS OF TRIGGER KEATON is thrilling, charming, and hilarious. It's got both mystery AND bar fights between stunt actors[...]

Incredible Hulk #346 from 1988 was the last issue of the series written by Peter David that Todd McFarlane worked on, with Erik Larsen helping out And apparently, the cover by McFarlane and Larsen wasn't the originally intended cover The one below was Instead, they went with one that showed a greater cast, rather than[...]

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[...]

It's a story Todd McFarlane has told before In 2013,  "It turns out, the assistant to the Toys 'R' Us buyer was a big comic geek," McFarlane said "They walked up to my table and he said, 'This is the guy I've been telling you about.'" Armed with that coup of a deal, "other dominoes started[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And courtesy of stats from Diamond Comic Distributors. McFarlane and Michelinie Spider-Man Omnibus Tops Advance Reorders Lots of omnibus punch up thanks to a higher price[...]

This is a big part of why so many Batman and Detective Comics covers are so memorable.  The Dark Knight's emotionally dark iconography stands the test of time, it seems.  For example, the 1939 Bob Kane cover for Detective Comics #31 is often cited as one of the high points of the series for its[...]

It's great when the President of Image Comics happens to be Todd McFarlane Because Todd McFarlane is a straight-shooting type who says what he likes and likes what he says And goes out and does things because he thinks it's a great idea, whether or not anyone agrees with him Sometimes that means launching a[...]