Spawn: The Undead

Spawn Universe

by Paul Jenkins, Dwayne Turner (Artist)

This is the Spawn spin-off that diehard Spawn fans have been craving! The Undead concentrates on the popular HellSpawn character once known as Al Simmons, champion of balance between Heaven and Hell. This series took a unique "Japanese Horror" style look at the Spawn mythos, focusing on urban horror. Horrifically beautiful stories by Paul Jenkins and Dwayne Turner...a must for any Spawn fan.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

184 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2008

About the author

Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spawn the Undead twin-series rised from the ashes of Curse of the Spawn is a 7 one-shots + a 2 issues long one series of hit and miss slow-burn urban-horror tales.



After 9 issues Jenkins decided he had no more to sayabout it and resigned, while Dwayne Turner moved to Silvestri's Top Cow studios.



Similar stories were published on the main series at the same time, and Capullo is a far better artist than Turner, so this series was redundant but still a good read if you are into that kind of horror genre.

[Timo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some cool horrory bits and some disturbing bits but too much talking.

[John_H92 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection is a little slow at the beginning but once you get to the third or fourth issue the stories become much stronger.

[Mason · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've always enjoyed the darker comics with the darker heroes. Someone much darker than Batman. Still waiting for a great Spawn movie though.

[Shane · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was deep and dark, there wasn't any real action but the artwork was beautiful. Each issue was like a short story, except for one story that stretched over 2 issues. I actually read this as individual comics but didn't have the last 2. My biggest problem was that there didn't seem to be an overall story arch, other than Spawn was a third faction in the war between heaven and hell.