Spawn #253

Spawn #253 keeps the momentum of its "exciting new direction" going with a cover that's both unsettling and strangely compelling — the dark, monstrous Spawn sits propped up in a hospital bed, wired to a tangle of monitors and medical equipment as though barely contained by the mundane world of medicine. Jonboy and McFarlane deliver a striking image that plays the supernatural against the clinical, all rendered with vivid color by FCO. It's a genuinely intriguing snapshot of a series that clearly isn't afraid to put its hellish hero in unexpected situations.