Spawn faces off against his old foes: The Clown, Ab and Zab, and a hoard of angry demons as the Dead Zones – portals to Heaven and Hell – are breached! Meanwhile, Nyx is in trouble and Spawn takes a trip down memory lane to find out who the sinister stranger was that changed the course of his and his brother’s lives.
Just when you think the book can't get darker, it does. Hine has morphed this into something of a Vertigo book, especially when tied in with the darker, less cartoony artwork. First Sam and Twitch investigate an apartment building where tenants keep going crazy and murder people. Then Nyx returns and we learn more about Al's past. The more we find out though, the bigger dirtbag it turns out he was. The best thing that happened to him was becoming Spawn.