Hellspawn #12

by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith (Artist)

An evil will be born from the belly of a young mother possessed. From this birth will be spat the Hellspawn's torment and rage, and the greatest challenge of Spawn's existence. The Powers are surfacing, crawling from the cuts and wounds of the dying, eager to claim the throne vacated by Malebolgia's demise. But there is another presence on the scene, standing between Spawn and his destiny. A hero lost in the fabric of time and the imagination whose time to re-emerge has come!

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2002

About the author

STEVE NILES is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence, and was recently named by Fangoria magazine as one of it's "13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years."

Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing company called Arcane Comix, where he published, edited and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics. His adaptations include works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison.

Steve resides in Los Angeles in his bachelor pad with one cat. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there...but we have an idea.

--from the author's website