Spawn #93
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSpawn #93 marks the first appearance of Urizen, one of the most formidable antagonists in the entire Spawn mythology — a cosmic, pre-temporal demon whose introduction set the stage for a prolonged multi-issue story arc leading directly into the landmark hundredth issue. The character's name and conceptual DNA are drawn from William Blake's prophetic mythology, where Urizen embodies tyrannical reason and primordial law, giving the Spawn universe an unusually literary villain rooted in 18th-century Romantic thought. Writer Brian Holguin and McFarlane used this issue to deepen the series' theological architecture: Urizen exists outside the Heaven-versus-Hell binary that defines Spawn's world, presenting a threat that neither angelic nor demonic power can easily contain. That narrative escalation, kicking off with 'The Devil's Banquet,' demonstrated that the creative team around issue #93 was actively pushing the Spawn mythos toward its most ambitious storytelling yet, just seven issues before the milestone centennial.
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By issue #93 (cover-dated March 2000), the Spawn series was in a collaborative writing phase, with Brian Holguin co-plotting alongside Todd McFarlane — a working arrangement that brought more literary ambition to the book's villains. Greg Capullo, who had been the series' primary penciler since the mid-90s, drew the issue, with Danny Miki on inks and Brian Haberlin handling colors; the creative credits are confirmed on McFarlane's own official site. The issue carries a dedication to the late Gil Kane, the influential Marvel and DC artist who had died in January 2000, situating the book within a broader comics community moment of mourning. McFarlane's deliberate citation of William Blake's 'The First Book of Urizen' within the issue's art — noted by the William Blake Archive blog — signals that the Urizen character was conceived with genuine literary intentionality rather than as a generic monster.
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- First appearance of Urizen, described in-universe as a demon older than time who exists outside the conventional Heaven-and-Hell power structure of the Spawn mythos.
- Story title: 'The Devil's Banquet' — the plot centers on a murderous English coven of 13 aristocrats attempting ritual soul-consumption to summon Urizen, thwarted when Spawn poisons the body of their intended last victim.
- Urizen appears only in vision/foreshadowing form in this issue; his full physical release is developed across subsequent issues leading to the #100 milestone.
- Writing credited to Brian Holguin and Todd McFarlane; pencils by Greg Capullo; inks by Danny Miki; colors by Brian Haberlin and Dan Kemp; letters and editing by Tom Orzechowski.
- The issue is dedicated to the memory of Gil Kane, the pioneering comics artist who died in January 2000.
- McFarlane quoted William Blake's 'The First Book of Urizen' directly within the issue's artwork, explicitly connecting the Spawn villain to Blake's 18th-century mythological figure — a god of primordial reason and cosmic law.
- The Spawn version of Urizen is later established to possess powers including divine power negation (nullifying Heaven and Hell's control over souls) and remote possession, making him a uniquely meta-cosmic threat in the series.
- Urizen would go on to appear in The Scorched ongoing series beginning in 2023, confirming his lasting relevance within the expanded Spawn universe decades after his debut.
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Reprinted in Spawn #50 (2000), Spawn Origins Collection #16
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