Spawn: Book Of The Dead

Spawn Universe #Guide

by Steve Niles, David Hine, Ashley Wood (Illustrator)

Written by Steve Niles with additional content by David Hine, and with each character in the Spawn mythos beautifully rendered by renowned artist Ashley Wood, the highly anticipated Book of the Dead is the ultimate guide for Spawn fans!

Genres: Comics

104 pages, Hardcover

First published January 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

Reviews

[Sebastian Zax-Gadara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Worth the money only for Ashley Wood's weird art. The writing is... abysmal; OBJECTIVELY so. It's like a kindergarten kid was given the task to make a synopsis of Spawn. Useless repetition, a superficial knowledge of the Spawn mythos and lukewarm literary sense - this is what Niles's writing boils down to. Thank God that Brian Michael Bendis wrote Hellspawn and Niles only "contributed" to it. All in all, this is a dumpster fire.

[Nicholas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pure drek.