Todd McFarlane Gives A Look Inside Spawn #270
Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has taken to social media to provide his followers with a first [...]
Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has taken to social media to provide his followers with a first glimpse inside of Spawn #270, due in stores next month.
McFarlane provided the story for the issue, with the art currently credited to "Todd McFarlane and friends" on the Image Comics website.
Working on #Spawn 270 today. Here's a panel from the page I'm currently working on. Don't want to give TOO much away! pic.twitter.com/mk8tp71KGp
— Todd McFarlane (@Todd_McFarlane) January 5, 2017
He says he doesn't want to give too much away, but there's more than a little bit of a tease here: the gas masks in that tweet appear likely to belong to The Soul Crusher, a new villain whose first full appearance has been teased as Spawn #273 from McFarlane and artist Szymon Kudranski.
Kudranski will be the first officially-solicited artist, and Soul Crusher the first major new threat, since the departure of Erik Larsen, who co-wrote the series with McFarlane and pencilled the comic for a year until #266.
"That story arc was, for the first time in 250+ issues, Spawn going down and coming face to face with Satan," McFarlane explains of the Satan Saga Wars, which concluded with #262. "He'd never done that, right? I always looked at it as sort of a Dante's Inferno, that there are a handful of different levels of devils and so he hadn't gotten to The Devil yet. It needed a bigness to it. Jack Kirby was obviously the King of doing big, and Erik Larsen has a little bit of our modern-day Jack in terms of bigfoot, slam-bam stuff."
Spawn #269 is on sale on January 11. You can pre-order a digital copy on ComiXology or call your local retailer to reserve one in print.
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