Spawn: The Undead Book Club - Issues 1 | 2 | 3 - Jan. 31st, 2016 - Feb. 6th, 2016

Spawn: The Undead, crawling out of a grave near you!

Welcome everyone! Here's our new edition of Spawn Book Club! The next 3 weeks (short run...) we'll be diving into Spawn: The Undead. This is a series of self-contained tales, featuring Spawn in a more boogeyman type role. When I hear Todd drone on about he wants a movie or show where 'Spawn isn't the main focus', after I get over how stupid that sounds, this series reminds me that it is possible if done right!

Anyway, if you're new to Spawn Book Club, this is a great time to hop in and join the discussion! What we do here is read 3 issues a week, then pop into their respective threads to discuss what we liked/disliked/etc. It's that easy! You can either follow along at home with your own copies (paper or digital), or if you have gaps in your collection/are too broke to do that, we offer the .cbr files down at the bottom of this post. I'm sure that's ruining the Spawn empire though.

Another tip is that there will be spoilers in this thread, so be sure to do the reading first before popping into the comments!

But don't let me babble on all day. Let's wrap our favourite red towels around our necks and sit down with these 3 issues of Spawn: The Undead while grumbling "Wandaaaaa..." all day.

What we're reading this week:

Issue 1 - A Face in the Crowd

• Tom Sloan is a man alone in the midst of a crowded city. Too much alcohol has led him to this moment of desperation that now engulfs him. He looks back with regret upon his life, and so plans to end it by jumping off a bridge. A stranger stops him, and asks to hear his hard luck story, after which the stranger tries to convince him that God cares about his soul. Spawn appears and tells him it was trickery, and salvation comes only through redemption. But Tom Sloan decides for himself the direction his life will take.

Issue 2 - The Door to Nowhere

• After years of communing with the occult, Travis Ward is scared. He knows that he is destined for Hell, and is being very careful not to fall for the Devil’s tricks. He meets an old friend, and tells her that he has recently seen the Hellspawn who is to escort him to Hell. But careful as he is, he is looking in the wrong direction, for after his story ends, his friend gets a cab to take him home. But she has not hailed just any cab. Travis Ward has just gotten in a cab driven by the taxi driver from Hell.

Issue 3 - My Soul to Keep

• Eve Riley can’t sleep. Ever. She has had insomnia since she was a child. Now her waking hours are spent reliving that childhood, and the cruelty she endured at the hands of her grandmother. The ghost of her grandmother haunts her at night. Spawn teaches her that she is keeping these visions alive by reliving them, and Eve must for give her grandmother in order to let her go, at which time peace....and sleep.....will come to her.

How we're reading it:

• Singles
• Spawn: The Undead Collection
• Spawn .cbr