Todd McFarlane opens up about cool bleeds about King Spawn # 1 in August

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane ad The universe of Spawn – a one-shot coming in June with Jim cheung who will shoot our three new series in progress, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The burnt, a new title every two months, until 2021. We talked about his general plans for The universe of Spawn earlier. But what about the first of the current derivative books, King spawn # 1 for August?

Todd McFarlane told me earlier this week, following up on our conversation last year, “The character Spawn will now join the rare company of loyal characters, like Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, who will have multiple books monthly. for the same title. It will also mark the first time in twenty-eight years that anyone can purchase a monthly # 1 Spawn book issue. Giving McFarlane hope to reach a new generation of readers who missed Spawn’s initial launch in 1992.

Talk about King spawn # 1 in August, “How many characters received more than one title per month during their creation? Spawn is close to joining those ranks. Spawn has paid his dues for 28 years, he can have a second title and he lets me create a bit of advancement in his kind of character, you know, considering he’s been around for 28 years. “

I asked if this was a deliberate reference to King Conan, the series introduced by Marvel to run alonge Conan the barbarian, located in the character’s future. “Yeah, okay, yes and the reason there is a reference is, to me, the first 300 issues of Spawn was Conan the barbarian. He was just the young warrior who was ready to go and fight and never back down, but at one point the interesting thing about any king is that they went through battle, tested, and they now know they have to. Play the game slightly different and in some cases radically different to always get the same results. What is to defeat your enemy, it may not always happen on the battlefield with sword in hand. “

I am going to ask. It’s you, isn’t it, Todd? Spawn is you twenty years ago, King Spawn is you now.

“This has all been a watered-down version of me to a degree, that if he’s going to be a good leader and I’m going to have other characters coming up, then they’re going to have to look at him with some kind of historical difference. he could be their leader, he can’t act like the kids anymore so he needs the kids because he has a lot of enthusiasm and they have a lot of energy, but he will just hopefully be a guiding force . Oh, by the way, when no one is watching, he’s going to do things on his own that no one can because no one knows what the king knows. “

Yeah, it’s totally Todd.

“And again, for anyone who’s 28 or under hasn’t had a chance to buy a monthly ongoing Spawn Number One book, they’ve only read about it, right, the start of Image and and these founders and there’s a guy named Todd and he had this book called Spawn … it’s just stories that they read or that their parents, uncles, or people talk about on shows. So Spawn goes. basically making the leap into a multi-book character, and I can show a new generation what Spawn is all about, because they missed it and they might not want to jump on number 315. “

Which also reminded me of his rationale for writing and drawing a new Spider-Man book all those years ago too …

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