Spawn: The Dark Ages #20

Spawn: The Dark Ages (single issues) #20

by Steve Niles, Kevin Conrad (Artist), Nat Jones (Artist)

Covenant lays half unconscious in the leprotic dungeon in which he was thrown. In the blackness, half-eaten by rats, he makes contact with two other prisoners, but continues to drift in and out of consciousness. Covenant is visited by Marcellus, they boy he saved; the same boy who turned him in. Marcellus wants the Hellspawn to see his fate and to see Brakert's To avoid starvation, Brakert had been farming humans for consumption. But Covenant remembers an old lesson from Cog, and turns the tables on his captors.

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 18, 2013

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