SPAWN #172

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SUMMARY :
What made Al Simmons the person who grew up to be Spawn? Al struggles to recover his lost memories of an encounter with a sinister stranger. An encounter that led to bloody murder and changed the destinies of three young men in “A Tale of Three Brothers.”

IMAGE COMICS.com
McFarlane.com

PREVIOUSLY IN SPAWN:
Al Simmons was a hit man for the US government until a treacherous assassin ended his life. At the moment of death, Al was offered a deal by the demon Malebolgia and returned to Earth as Spawn, a creature with supernatural powers born in Hell.

As Armageddon consumed the world, Spawn turned against his masters, destroying all life on Earth. While God and Satan continue their endless conflict in a parallel universe, Spawn has re-created the world and resurrected the human race, in what has become known as the White Light. The portals to Heaven and Hell are closed, leaving humanity free from the influence of angels and demons.

Now the cracks in Spawn’s brave new world are starting to showing. The demons Ab and Zab, trapped on Earth after the White Light, are doing what they do best -creating mischief. In Illinos, they have taken over a fundamentalist Christian hell house theatre and opened a portal to backwater of Hell. Now the evil is spilling out in the form of sin-eaters, creatures who gorge themselves on the guilt their human victims.

Spawn has recognized that the preacher who runs the hell house is Al’s youngest brother, Richard. Now one died back in the summer of 1980. Murdered by the three Simmons brothers.

Sharing	Name	Sharing	Name
Title	A Tale of three brothgers part three : SINS PAST
Dedicated to	Charlie Adlard	MANAGING EDITOR	Jennifer Cassidy
STORY	David Hine		Tyler Jeffers
PENCILS AND INKS	Brian Haberlin	SPAWN EDITORS	Brian Haberlin
LETTERING	Tom Orzechowski		Todd McFarlane
COLOR	Andy Troy	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SPAWN.COM	Tyler Jeffers
PRODUCTION	Francis Takenaga, Diana Sanson	MANAGER OF INT’L PUBLISHING FOR TMP	Suzy Thomas
ASSISTANT EDITOR	Francis Takenaga	PUBLISHER FOR IMAGE COMICS	Eric Stephenson
COVER	Erian Harberlin
		SPAWN CREATED BY TODD McFARLANE

ここでAl Simmonsの父、Bernard Simmonsが仕事が留守がちであるなか、Mr. Malefick(Mammon)がSimmons家に出入りしていて、Alの母、Esther Simmonsと関係を結んでいたこと、実はAlの実の父がMammonであることが明かされます。二人が出会ったのは西ミシガン大学で、比較宗教を共に学ぶ中で、Estherは興味本位で、悪魔崇拝者のグループと知り合う。Estherがヘルスポーンというものを知っていて、自分の子供たちのなかからヘルスポーンが生まれることを受け入れていたというのは驚きです。