Spawn #34
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDeep in the grimy underworld of New York City's alleys, a massive, spike-shouldered figure wearing a battered "I ♥ New York" shirt lunges forward with feral, glowing eyes and a wide, menacing grin — while clutching a grotesque severed zombie head in one hand. The cover art by Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane crackles with raw, street-level menace, packing every corner with decayed skeletons, dripping sewage, and a dim hanging light that casts the whole scene in eerie shadow. "Ripples" promises the kind of dark, visceral storytelling that made Spawn one of 1995's most compelling Image titles.
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- Written by Todd McFarlane; interior art by Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane; colors by Steve Oliff, Quinn Supplee, and Olyoptics; letters/copy editing by Tom Orzechowski.
- First appearance of Helen Williams, wife of detective Twitch Williams, whose introduction gives the Sam-and-Twitch subplot a domestic dimension.
- Cameo appearance of Tony Twist (Antonio Twistelli), the Mafia don whose name McFarlane publicly acknowledged was taken from real NHL enforcer Anthony 'Tony' Twist — an admission central to the landmark right-of-publicity lawsuit Twist filed in 1997, which ultimately settled out of court in 2007; subsequent reprints renamed the character 'Vito Gravano.'
- The mystery figure who rescues the Violator from the sewer flood (following the battle begun in Spawn #33) is the Freak — a sewer-dwelling psychopath who goes on to play a significant antagonist role in the series; the extent of his appearance in this issue (background cameo vs. second cameo, his first being in #33) is debated among collectors.
- The Violator, in his human Clown form, approaches CIA director Jason Wynn and proposes a new alliance: Wynn is to cultivate a relationship with Terry Fitzgerald, betting that threatening Spawn's surrogate family will goad the hellspawn into a reckless attack.
- Cog (Cagliostro) rebukes Spawn for impulsively killing Stinky — a low-level drug supplier — arguing that Spawn was manipulated by Hell into acting as an unwitting enforcer rather than a protector of the alley community.
- Issue #34 is collected in Spawn Collection Volume 3 (issues #34–54) and was also reprinted as part of the black-and-white Spawn Compendium (issues #1–50) released in 2012 for Image Comics' 20th anniversary.
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Reprinted in Spawn #8 (1997), Spawn #17 (1997), Spawn #17 (1998), Top Komiks #5/1999 (1999), Spawn #33 (2000), Spawn: Edición Integral #3 (2011), Spawn Origins Collection #6
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