Spawnography

What happens when the two best Spawn podcasts join forces?! Well, you get a double dose of devilish discussion about everyone's favorite Hellspawn. We welcomed John and David from Regarding Spawn to discuss the Spawn: Blood Feud miniseries, the joy of diving into Spawn as adults, and just how we all ended up with Spawn podcasts in the first place. Come for the Spawn of it all and stay for the tang...

Spawn Across America continues in issues 31 and 32 as Al makes it back to New York City and faces off against a brand new Anti-Sp... I mean, Redeemer! Todd McFarlane dives a little deeper into the moral implications of Al's actions to this point while Greg Capullo's art continues to evolve and impress. Plus what does it mean that Al Simmons is "destined to be The One?"

Following Spawn's swing by Elysium, he finds himself thousands of miles from home and the Toddfather takes a couple of issues to tackle some important social issues - abuse and racism.  Now is Spawn the book to be tackling these issues? Can comic book superheroes ever effectively talk about problems that they can't fix with punching? Does Spawn do a lot more harm than good in these cases? Your hos...

The dream of the Bad Girl 90s is certainly alive in 1995's Angela miniseries by Neil Gaiman and Greg Capullo. But despite the sometimes leery and lurid aesthetics, this story is a lot of fun! It's Angela's 100,000th birthday and the only present she's getting is going on trial for high treason! So her friends do what any friends would - they get a witness for her defense - Al Simmons. George and P...

The Curse makes his debut as we see Todd McFarlane continue to develop as a writer while Greg Capullo really starts coming to his own. He's delivering art work that is in great conversation with Todd's earlier work on the series but still stands on its own. George and Pierce dig into some of the themes of a fanatical villain like the Curse as well as express some excitement and relief that Terry,...

Spawn makes a friend... sorta! Files are exchanged! Those pesky angels are up to something, too. We're back with a couple of little self-contained stories that help expand the Spawn world a bit. Marc Silvestri joins the book for issue #25 during Image X month when each of the Image creators guested on each other's books. George and Pierce probably get a little too deep into comparing and contrasti...

He's not the Vindicator or the Victimizer or the Vaporizer or the Vibrator or the Vegematic! He's the VIOLATOR! George and Pierce dig into Alan Moore's 3 issue miniseries that explains some of what ol' Violator is up to during "the Hunt" arc and this time they've got a guest along for the ride. You may have seen his work on Psycho Goreman, Beast Heart Strikers or Boom!'s WWE comics. Comic book wri...

Our favorite Sicilian cyborg celebrity assassin is back and he's out for Spawn's blood! That's right, Overtkill has returned! George and Pierce cover Spawn issues #21-#24 which were released before Spawn #19 and #20 and feature some fallout from that arc with Houdini or maybe some fallout from Spawn/Batman? We'll get into it. But many forces in the Spawniverse are converging as Vito Gravano (aka T...

Todd McFarlane and Frank Miller are back at it again but this time the collaboration is unprecedented. Not only is Spawn teaming up with Batman but he's specifically teaming up with a Batman who fits into the continuity established by Miller in The Dark Knight Returns. But wait a minute, this plot feels a lot like that Harry Houdini arc... We'll get into it. On top of the Goddamn Batman, George an...

What do Harry Houdini and Spawn have in common? Well, not much as it turns out. This fill-in story from letterer extraordinaire Tom Orzechowski and apparent Harry Houdini enthusiast Andrew Grossberg, the two characters are thrust together in a plot that involves some antiquated Cold War sensibilities, a magical realm that we'll never return to (in the pages of Spawn anyway) and an explanation for...

Borne of Heaven's elemental fire, the Anti-Spawn makes his debut!  Grant Morrison and Greg Capullo get to make their mark on the Spawn mythos while Todd is off prepping Batman/Spawn with Frank Miller. The result is an arc that delves into Morrison's own predilections for the metaphysical while grounding itself in the knockdown, drag-out Silver Age superhero stuff that the writer has always shown a...

Hey there Hellspawn! Clown is back to share his story of fighting Medieval Spawn in the past with a few random kids in an alleyway! You know, as one does. He ends up also explaining how he became the inspiration for fire breathing dragons in folklore? George and Pierce were pretty split on this arc but that doesn't mean they didn't find a ton to talk about. Plus they'll get into some personal lore...

We know who killed Al! At least, for now.  George and Pierce get right to the heart of the mystery that's been brewing since issue one. Is the Chapel reveal a good one? Was it a good one at the time? How come Todd had to change it? They'll touch on the strange history of Chapel as a character and whether intended or not, they'll dare to ask the question: is Chapel trans? And more importantly, who...

Nerds and creeps! How Spawn wishes they'd go away!  Frank Miller stops by the Spawniverse to close out the CoCoSwiss. Spawn's alley is smack dab in the middle of a turf war between two gangs and our hero Al takes it upon himself to protect his fellow night people. We break down how successful this first Miller/McFarlane collaboration is and dig into some fun letters in The Spawning ground. 

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, wait...what is this? Some sort of crossover episode? The CoCoSwiss continues and Dave Sim brings his creation, Cerebus, over to the Spawniverse for a lesson in creator's rights. George and Pierce explore the dream world presented in Spawn #10 and try to parse exactly what Todd McFarlane and Dave Sim are saying about creator's rights, the industry as a whole and where...

Angela! A woman who isn't Wanda or being menaced by a man! Things are moving in the Spawn Universe as the CoCoSwiss continues in issue #9. In this episode, George and Pierce break down Neil Gaiman's contribution to the Toddfather's empire, how Angela and Medieval Spawn represent the most worldbuilding that the book has seen to this point and the fallout of McFarlane's bad business decisions surrou...

You know him! You love him! He's the most sinister cyborg this side of Sicily! That's right, I'm talking about OVERTKILL! George and Pierce cover the introduction of Overtkill and his ensuing battle with Spawn in Spawn #6 and #7. They dig into Todd's legal troubles surrounding mob boss character Vito Gravano and feared NHL Enforcer Tony Twist, the inherent toyeticism of Spawn and the slow expansio...

In Heaven, everything is fine. Unfortunately for Billy Kincaid, that's not where he's headed. George and Pierce cover the haunting introduction of Billy Kincaid in Spawn #5 and the followup by Spawn's first non-Todd McFarlane writer, Alan Moore, in Spawn #8! The cosmology of Spawn starts to come more into focus as we learn about the nature of Spawn's powers and Hell itself. Plus we are introduced...

For their inaugural episode, George  and Pierce discuss their personal relationships to Spawn and why they decided to do this podcast in the first place! They'll also dig into the circumstances surrounding the beginnings of the character including creator Todd McFarlane's road to a comics career and the eventual Image Exodus of the early 90s.  Then they'll get into the first four issues of Spawn -...