Spawn #174

Spawn #174 kicks off "Gunslinger Spawn: Part 1" with a cover by Greg Capullo that sets a haunting, desolate tone — a cloaked, wide-brimmed-hat figure stands amid a graveyard of crooked wooden crosses and twisted bare trees, chains visible at his side, the entire scene steeped in dusty, muted browns that evoke a forsaken frontier purgatory. Writer David Hine teams with artists Bing Cansino and Geirrod Van Dyke to bring this Western-inflected chapter of the Spawn mythology to life in 2008. If you've ever wanted to see Spawn's world filtered through the grim atmosphere of a ghost-town burial ground, this is a compelling place to start.