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Spawnography

A podcast covering Todd McFarlane"s Spawn arc-by-arc, hosted by two longtime comic book journalists: George Marston and Pierce Lydon.

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01:24:58

Episode 65: "Aftermath" - Spawn #101

Spawnography ·

2025/06/09

And we are back to our regularly scheduled Spawn programming! Thanks again to Todd McFarlane for joining us last episode! This episode we say goodbye to Greg Capullo and hello to new series regular artist, Angel Medina. Spawn hangs out with Granny Blake to decompress after the recent events of the comic and we get acquainted with the beginnings of this new era of Spawn. We'll get into some personal religious traumas, tried to start a rap beef with Drake - you know, the usual. This week, we have two

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Episode 64: The First 100 Issues with Todd McFarlane

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2025/06/02

We've covered 100 issues of Spawn and now we get to talk to the man himself, Todd McFarlane! We had a great conversation about Todd's approach to the book, how the book evolved over those first 100 issues, the secrets behind the Harry Houdini arc and a little bit of what Todd might have done differently. Many thanks to Todd for joining us and his team for helping set up this opportunity. This week's recommendation is a simple one, read some Spawn! Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for

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01:40:50

Episode 63: "Milestone" - Spawn #100

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2025/05/26

We have made it to a milestone! Issue 100! This marks the culmination of the first era of Spawn and it is a doozy! Will Al confront Malebolgia? What's going on with Wanda and Terry? Can Spawn find redemption? All of this and more awaits and George and Pierce dig into the issue. Plus we talk about some of our favorite comics fights and how this milestone issue stacks up against the past ones. This week's recommendations are to find something to care about enough that you actually take steps to do it

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01:24:47

Episode 62: "The Trouble with Angels" & "The Edge of...

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2025/05/19

Who hired Ab and Zab to unleash Urizen? How can an army of angels be stopped from attacking Earth? How did Al recover from his seeming defeat at Urizen's hands? Should Angela be played on the big screen by the singer of Castle Rat? What's Cyan got to do with this and what's the deal with Wanda's pregnancy? George & Pierce will get into al this and more in the penultimate episode before number 100! Plus stay tuned for a fun little announcement at the end of the episode. This week's recommendations

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01:41:47

Episode 61: "Rules of Engagement" & "Heaven's Folly"...

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2025/05/12

Armageddon is on the horizon and the fate of Earth hangs in the balance! Our hero may not have the chops to fight Urizen himself but with a little help from an angelic ally and a dose of the Greenworld's power, we're seeing him evolve into somthing more than his humble hellspawn origins. As always, George and Pierce get into it. This week's recommendations are renowned Seattle punks, The Gits. Check out their song "Seaweed" and friends of the pod, Stay Inside's latest single "Monsieur Hawkweed."

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01:33:54

Episode 60: "The Children's Hour" & "Cracks in the...

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2025/05/05

The road to 100 continues! (It really seems like we are always on the road some milestone, huh?) We get to meet the a couple of harbingers of the apocalypse in Ab and Zab, witness Mammon's growing influence on the plot and dive into Terry and Wanda'srelationship struggles a bit. This week's recommendations include the oft-referenced in this couple of issues film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, HBO's Righteous Gemstones, 1992 Steve Martin comedy Leap of Faith and to take some small risk this

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01:52:51

Episode 59: "Black Cat Bones, Pt. 2" & "The Devil's...

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2025/04/28

And we're back to regular Spawn! This time with another guest in tow! Adam Lata, the moderator of r/SpawnsUniverse, joins us to chat about the first tease of Urizen! Along the way, we'll discuss Adam's connection and history with Spawn, some Insane Clown Posse lore, different types of magick and arcana and, of course, some hedgehog facts. Did we cut out some explanation of Ken Penders' Sonic run? Yes! Will it probably come up again in the future? Knowing us? Of course! This week's recommendations

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01:23:58

Episode 58: Daring Escapes #1-#4 with Chris Osborne

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2025/04/21

You demanded it so we delivered! The breakout star of Spawn issues #19 & #20, Harry Houdini, is back in his own solo adventure! Tom Orzchowski, Andrew Grossberg and Alan Weiss spin a yarn that combines Indiana Jones, Houdini's own history, gods, demons, religious figures, aliens, time travel and the Pope?! Joining us on this jaunt through time and space is Chris Osborne, host of the Play Comics podcast. Some of the art is great, the writing is at times bizarre, but you could do a lot worse than

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01:24:26

Episode 57: "Three Uses of the Knife" & "Black Cat...

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2025/04/14

Brian Holguin's own little "Spawn Across America" arc takes a darker turn with a Rashomon-style tale of racist violence that's met by Spawn's retribution and then the first part of a Richard Ramirez-referencing serial killer story. This leads Geoge and Pierce on a discussion about the nature of evil in Spawn and how it is and isn't effectively portrayed. Can a comic book like this one tackle more serious themes effectively? It's a mixed bag. Does this inevitably lead to some discussion of Alf? Of

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01:36:47

Episode 56: "Seasons of Change" & "The Devil You...

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2025/04/07

These two issues are one part "My Dinner with Cogliostro" and one part Brian Holguin trying his hand at his own version of the "Spawn Across America" arc from 60-ish issues ago. The results are certainly darker. Spawn has divorced himself from his humanity and the Al Simmons persona so he's meting out justice as he's sees fit. In a somewhat interesting paralell to the originl arc, he's specifically targeting the perpetrators of child abuse so that's a theme that George and Pierce will dig into more

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01:29:53

Episode 55: "Return of Suture" - Curse of the Spawn...

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2025/03/31

Suture's back, Marc Simmons continues to be here and Curse of the Spawn nears the end of its run. Alan McElroy continues to do his thing and George and Pierce once again lament some of the choices made in this title but they find some interesting avenues to explore the themes and execution of the book. We get an early appearance of Clayton Crain's professional work as well so that's interesting to dig in to. This week's recommendations are going to therapy and the 1977 Joan Micklin Silver

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01:25:11

Episode 54: "Folklore" & "Brother's Keeper" - Spawn...

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2025/03/24

Author Ethan Crone's obsession knows no end. He explores the depths of Rat City hoping to find out more about Spawn but is met with a flurry of vague and oftentimes contradicting recollections. Meanwhile, a specter of Spawn's past appears for the first time; Al Simmons has a brother! George and Pierce dig in to all of this and, undoubtedly, more. This week's recommendations are to help someone that you have the means to help and also one of Charles Burns' latest, FINAL CUT, a surrealist tale about

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01:46:55

Episode 53: "Endgame" & "Abdication" - Spawn #85 & 86

Spawnography ·

2025/03/17

A showdown with Billy Kincaid's latest form! More powers of the Dead Zones revealed! Twitch pushed to a place he never thought he'd go. And when the day is won, Spawn QUITS! Wait... what? Yeah, that's right. George and Pierce will get into it. This week's recommendations are the pet a cat or, more generally, to find the love that you have for yourself reflected back at you in some way. And Bartees Strange's fantastic new album, HORROR, available wherever you get your tunes. Thanks to Freesound

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01:41:35

Episode 52: "The Conqueror" & "The Waiting" - Spawn...

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2025/03/10

We all know that 52 only matters in the DCU but can you believe it?! It's been a whole year of Spawnography! Thanks for taking this journey with us! This episode, George and Pierce probably talk too much about the X-Men considering that this is a Spawn podcast but when they do get on track, they dig into the who, what, wheres and whys of Jason Wynn and Billy Kincaid. And as the world around in real life seems like itlosing its humanity, we take a little bit of solace in the fact that the

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02:05:58

Episode 51: "Devil Inside" - Spawn #81 & #82 with Rob...

Spawnography ·

2025/03/03

I scream. You scream. We all scream about the return of BILLY KINCAID. Joining George and Pierce for the haunted homecoming of one of Spawn's greatest foes is Rob Duenas, artist of SPAWN KILLS EVERY SPAWN. We chat about Rob's history with the character, talk a ton about the process of comics making and go on enough tangents to make two hours feel absolutely breezy. This week's recommendation is SPAWN KILLS EVERY SPAWN, the recently wrapped miniseries from John Layman (Chew, Detective Comics) and

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01:39:23

Episode 50: "Exterminator" & "The Cleansing" - Spawn...

Spawnography ·

2025/02/24

The road to episode 50 ends here! George and Pierce dig into this latest chapter of Spawn and lament some of the artistic choices but overall, they have a good time with this one. The Exterminator case is coming to a close thanks, in part, to Sam & Twitch's investigation and Spawn is ready to mete out some justice. But what is the significance of the mysterious mark that keeps appearing around our three heroes? Could some spectre of the past be making its return? (Spoiler alert: YES.) This week's

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01:36:54

Episode 49: "Relics" & "Bloodstains" - Spawn #77 & #78

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2025/02/17

George and Pierce delve into the Seven-tinged depths of depravity that Brian Holguin brings to these two issues and in the process, they are delighted by the propulsiveness he's brought to the plot. A killer is loose in Spawn's alley and it's up to Spawn to stop them! Bobby is still reeling from the loss of his best bud, Bootsy. Who is Sarah Frost? Twitch is... DEAD?! How many books are there that are called Nevermore and do they have Davy Crockett in them? (And what does that have to do with these

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01:01:49

Episode 48: Spawn/Wild C.A.T.s with Adam Reck

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2025/02/10

We take a small detour from our regularly scheduled Spawn coverage to take things back to the year 1996 when Alan Moore and Scott Clark were tasked with bringing readers a Spawn/WildC.A.T.S. crossover they would never forget. The result falls a little short of those lofty expectations but we'll get into it. Joining us in this excursion into the now unfortunately known events of this miniseries, is Adam Reck, co-host of the wonderful Battle of the Atom, an X-Men podcast that definitively ranks the

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01:36:19

Episode 47: "Sacred Ground" & "Farewell Dance" -...

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2025/02/03

The Green World arc comes to a close! Who is the Keeper? What does this mean for Spawn? What's going to happen to Bootsy? Issue #75 proves to be one of the best milestone issues yet! Then issue #76 follows that with a heartfelt denouement that helps recenter Al and grounds the book with far more affecting emotional stakes than we've gotten in a while! George and Pierce dig into it further but your humble Spawnographers are liking what they are reading (and you should too!). The week's

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01:39:02

Episode 46: "The Heap" & "The Void" - Spawn #73 & #74

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2025/01/27

Eddie Beckett has no idea what the bag of necroplasm he found has in store for him. Before he knows it, he will become THE HEAP! We are barrelling toward issue #100 and we get two of the most propulsive issues in a while. Pierce and George have a good time getting to know a truculent new foe made of trash as Spawn, Bootsy, Cog and the gang deal with the fallout of the last few issues and what it might mean moving forward. The week's recommendations are to check in on a friend you haven't spoken to

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