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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[...]

It's Scorched time! Today, at the comic book store owner online summit, ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the second[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 But he wants it to be clear that this is not just a bunch of[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 We talked about his general plans for Spawn's Universe earlier But what about the first[...]

Today, at ComicsPRO, Todd McFarlane announced Spawn's Universe – a one-shot coming in June with Jim Cheung that will spin our three new ongoing series, King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn and The Scorched, a new title every two months, through 2021 He talked to me earlier this week about what he's doing and why he's doing[...]

Image Comics' President Todd McFarlane announced his plan to create a greater multi-character, interconnected comic book universe based around his Spawn comic at the retailer summit, ComicsPRO His stated goal is to establish a shared fictional universe over time in the vein of what the other comic industry giants, Marvel, and DC Comics, have accomplished[...]

This time we are getting a new variant released for the Todd McFarlane designed Batman We had already seen this figure before as the black and grey costume went exclusively to Walmart as part of their Gold Label Series The original release includes special goggles, daggers, and McFarlane's own War of Crime Batman This figure[...]

Image Comics will be sending comic book stores a free overship of the Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane black-and-white cover variant of Spawn #315 this February. Spawn #315 Cover E B&W Greg Capullo/Todd McFarlane Variant This overship amount will be 20% of the retailers' order (total, across covers A, B & C) of Spawn #315[...]

As shipments for the Original Spawn Remastered Action Figure and Comic start to roll out, Todd McFarlane gives one last shipping update Many collectors are curious about when they will be getting their figure and what time frame we are looking at it arriving McFarlane tells us that fans will get a tracking number but[...]

Todd McFarlane's artwork is becoming pretty unattainable these days for us collectors that are of more modest means Forget getting a Spidey cover or page; that is just not feasible anymore His Spawn stuff pops up a little cheaper now and then, but with the boom that character is seeing the last few months, those[...]

Spawn appears on the cover of Crossover #3 by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw. But he does not appear inside the cover of this metatextual continuity-based

Image Comics is sending comic boom retailers a free overship of a Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane black-and-white cover variant on Spawn #314 this January, the comic introducing the new Spawn super-team, The Chain Gang This overship amount will be 20% of the retailers' order across covers A, B & C of Spawn #314 The[...]

We'vemnetioned how orders for the upcoming Crossover #3 are double those of #2, anticipating appearance of Spawn within the pages as well as on the promoted cover by Todd McFarlane Well, Crossover #2 seems to have made that more likely, as we see the escaped superheroes from the "event" imprisoned… Crossover #2 Teases Spawn For Crossover[...]

Last night we ran the story that Todd McFarlane and Spawn were coming to Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw's Crossover #3 from Image Comics (as well as Mike Allred's Madman) We now have the covers as proof. But does Todd McFarlane really want to get close to Crossover? Because we also have the first few pages[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Daily LITG: From Wonder Wonder to X-Men – The ten most-read stories yesterday… Wonder Woman and Todd McFarlane – The Daily LITG, 27th November 2020 What you were reading yesterday, the numbers don't lie. A Green Lantern Ring Around Her Neck? Wonder Woman's Future State DC Comics Death Metal[...]

The Todd McFarlane series that has been introducing a number of new versions of Spawn of late, ahead of the upcoming superhero team debut, The Chain Gang and the battle with the Omega Spawn Including this cover by Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo, introducing a new, rather timely version of Spawn, Plague Spawn. Spawn #313 Introduces[...]

Spawn fans should start to get excited as Todd McFarlane gives fans the biggest update yet regarding their Remastered Kickstarter figure The McFarlane Toys crowdfunding Spawn figure launched back in April 2020 and hit nearly 3.5 million dollars and over 27,000 backers Since the campaign closed, Todd McFarlane himself has been updating fans on the[...]