Spawn #18

Spawn (Single Issues) #18

by Grant Morrison (Writer), Greg Capullo (Illustrator), Art Thibert (Illustrator)

The homeless distract the Redeemer while Spawn recovers. As he fights, Spawn gradually realizes that his foes powers are being depleted. With a final blast, he downs the Redeemer, who is transported back to his heavenly creators. Afterward, Spawn returns to Simmonsville and destroys this reminder of a happier time. He accepts that sorrow and loneliness have become his fate.

Genres: Comics, Horror

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 10, 1994

About the author

Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.

In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. He divides his time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 4 out of 5]

(B+) 79% | Good
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #15-20 can be found here: Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 3.

[Nicolo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grant Morrison wrote a pretty good three-part Spawn story. Capullo was up to the task and even elevated his work, but a small part of me wishes the Scotsman was able to work with McFarlane. A wasted opportunity for sure.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A triumphant finish...with a bittersweet epilogue.

[Egghead · Rating 4 out of 5]

"darkness is my home
now"- grant almost makes spawn good...
adolescent good.