Spawnography

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." FFO: slithery post-emo and dancing near the Morgan Ave L train stop in the middle of the night in a big suit.

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects. Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

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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 week - push yourself out of your comfort zone a little bit.

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects. Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

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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 are the Japanese punk band, Otoboke Beaver (definitely check out their 2022 KEXP session), Hal Ashby and Warren Beatty's 1975 film Shampoo, and last but not least the r/SpawnUniverse Medieval Spawn Kickstarter Competition. The cutoff for entries is May 17, 2025.

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects. Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

This episode is dedicated to Jerry the hedgehog.

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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 sitting down with Daring Escapes.

This week's recommendations are Chris' podcasts, Play Comics, which delves into the similarties and differences between video games based on comics and the source mterial, and the upcoming Sugar, Spite & Everything is Fine which takes a look at the lessons that cartoons taught us growing up and whether or not we have forgotten them as adults.

We also recommend Assassination Classroom, a sci-fi comedy anime about a group of students who must learn to kill their teacher in order to save the world. The only trouble is their teacher is a tentacled alien who can move at mach speeds. Kieron Gillen's recent Eternals series is probably the best take on those characters.... ever? And of course, we recommend that you take some time to reconnect with friends and family.

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects.

Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

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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 course it does.

This week's recommendations are to do something frivolous - something spontaneous that has no meaning other than to bring you some happiness - and to watch the Akira Kurosawa classic, Rashomon. 'Nuff said.

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects.

Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

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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. And who's this Mammon guy?

This week's recommendations are to check out some wrestling highlights of the Timeless Toni Storm and simply to go outside and go for a walk without headphones. Commune with nature. Touch some grass.

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects.

Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

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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 classic Between the Lines, a film that follows the staff at an alternative Boston newspaper as they face the looming threat of a takeover by a large corporation. It stars John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Bruno Kirby, Marilu Henner and more. Definitely worth a watch!

Thanks to Freesound for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects.

Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order.

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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 a group of friends heading out to a remote cabin in the woods with 8mm cameras to make an homage to one of their favorite sci-fi horror films, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.

Thanks to Freesound (https://freesound.org/) for being a great resource for our intro atmosphere and sound effects.

Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order. (https://tinyurl.com/47pvxj3a)

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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 (https://freesound.org/) for helping provide some of our intro sound effects.

Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order. (https://tinyurl.com/47pvxj3a) Thank YOU for listening!

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 characters in Brian Holguin, Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo's narrative seems to be doing everything they can to hang on to every shred of theirs. This week's recommendations are to do something punk - use what tools you have to make art that speaks truth to power- and to check out The Comics Courier, a newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb. You can follow her and presumably updates about future issues of that at @explodingarrow.bsky.social

Thanks to Freesound (https://freesound.org/) for helping provide some of our intro sound effects. Thanks to Blake Whitlow for the always useful Spawn Reading Order. (https://tinyurl.com/47pvxj3a) Thank YOU for listening!