Todd McFarlane announced his new attempt at creating a Spawn Universe!
Image Comics’ President Todd McFarlane announced his bold attempt at creating his own multi-character, interconnected comic book Spawn universe. 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 with their comic book universes.
The announcement was given by McFarlane during a first look presentation at the Annual ComicsPRO Conference. The character Spawn, created by McFarlane, will be at the forefront of the initial launch of new titles. The long-term goal is that Spawn will become but one of many characters that will succeed not only in the comics industry but in many mediums across the globe.
McFarlane will capitalize on the twenty-eight-year success story of Spawn
The Spawn title currently is a top 5 monthly selling title on the Diamond Distributors Top 100 Chart. A new release of a Spawn figure on Kickstarter set a new Kickstarter record, in its category. The campaign raised just under $3.5 million in 30 days. That figure was also awarded the prestigious People’s Choice 2021 Toy of The Year (TOTY) by The Toy Association, Inc. McFarlane also announced four new titles coming out in 2021. Three of them will continue as regular monthly titles. There will be an opportunity for fans of the Spawn character and his new expanding world to get their stories from it on a weekly basis instead of just twelve times a year.
In June 2021 comic retailers will be able to order SPAWN’S UNIVERSE #1.
This will be a book that will set the stage with a story that will spill out into the other new monthly titles. The first title will release in August with a book called KING SPAWN #1. The character Spawn will now join the rare company of stalwart characters, like Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, that will have multiple monthly books for the same title character. It will also mark the first time in twenty-eight years that anyone can buy a monthly issue #1 Spawn book.
In October comes the second new monthly called GUNSLINGER SPAWN.
This title character has been a huge hit among the fanbase over the past year. Each of his appearances has garnered enthusiasm at the stores and online. There will be a new #1 team book. It will band five characters together to fight against forces too big for any of them to take on alone. That book is titled THE SCORCHED. Spawn, Redeemer, Gunslinger, Medieval Spawn, and She-Spawn begins the group’s adventures. However, McFarlane promises a rotating cast of heroes over the coming months to keep the roster of heroes fresh. He also said that he would be bringing in new major villains into the fold, too.
To lend a creative hand on some of this expanding list of titles, McFarlane has recruited an all-star list of comic book creators such as Art Adams, Jason Shawn Alexander, Carlo Barberi, Brett Booth, J. Scott Campbell, Greg Capullo, Donny Cates, Jim Cheung, Mike del Mundo, Javier Fernandez, David Finch, Jonathan Glapion, Kevin Keane, Aleš Kot, Puppeteer Lee, Sean Lewis, Sean Gordon Murphy, Ben Oliver, Stephen Segovia, Paulo Siqueira, Marc Silvestri, Marcio Takara, and Frank Quitely, as well as others he will be announcing in the coming months.
All of this just continued to build on the mythology of Spawn and his world. The original SPAWN book is one of the world’s bestselling and longest-running comics, with over 100 million copies sold in more than 120 countries.
In 2019, McFarlane made history with the release of the historic SPAWN #300 and record-breaking SPAWN #301. These milestones have earned McFarlane the Guinness World Records title for the world’s longest-running creator-owned comic book series. SPAWN #300 became the 2nd highest-selling comic title. It was also the only character to place two of its issues in the Top 11 for highest-selling issues for that year.
A new movie of SPAWN is currently in development with BlumHouse Studios. Jamie Foxx, and Jeremy Renner are part of the project as McFarlane will be making his directorial debut on the film when it goes into production.
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