Spawn #295A, Francesco Mattina Cover, Image '19

Reintroduction and resurrection of Spawn's earliest and most persistent enemies. Francesco Mattina regular cover.

Spawn #295 arrives at a hinge point in Todd McFarlane's long-running Image Comics series, with Spawn confronting the man responsible for his wife's murder. The issue marks the reintroduction and resurrection of some of the character's earliest and most persistent enemies, returning antagonists who defined the book's brutal first chapters to the center of the story. It is the kind of issue that rewards readers who have followed the run while giving those enemies fresh stakes heading into the final push toward the landmark 300th issue.

The interior art is by Jason Shawn Alexander, whose painterly, shadow-heavy style suits Spawn's world better than almost any artist working in the book during this era. The regular cover is by Francesco Mattina, whose hyperrealistic painted covers became closely associated with the series throughout the late 2010s. This is the standard Cover A edition, the newsstand-equivalent regular cover for the issue.