SPAWN #173

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SUMMARY :
“A Tale of Three Brothers” continues as Al Simmons becomes a cold-blooded killer, while his brothers follow their own paths, one to become a man of justice, the other descending into drug addiction and mental breakdown. As the memories flood back, Spawn begins to realize that it was no accident that he was chosen to become a Hellspawn.

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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.

It turns out the preacher who runs the hell house is Al’s youngest brother, Richard. and the sin-eater has resurrected long buried memories. Since they were children, a mysterious man in white was a malevolent influence in the lives of the three Simmons brothers, appearing whatever their father was away from home.

Marc distrusted the man called Malefick from the start, but Al was fascinated by his aura of evil. In the end, it was Richie who proved the weakest. Malefick used the temptations of drugs and women to make Richard his puppet, setting him up to stab the depraved dealer known as the Weasel.

When Al saw what his brother had done. he made a decision that would save them from prison and destroy their lives. He took the knife. and kept on stabbing The Weasel until he was dead.

Then malefick knew that Al Simmons was the one he had been searching for through the centuries. The one who was destined to become the creature known as Spawn.

Sharing	Name	Sharing	Name
Title	A Tale of three brothgers part three : SECRETS AND LIES
Dedicated to	Kyle Baker	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	Greg Capullo
		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。