Spawnometer 0:0:3:9: Vanguard & Berzerker (1983-1997)

Spawn #39 &
Megaton #1-4
& Vanguard #0-6
& Berzerker #1-6
& Vanguard: Strange Visitors #1-4
& Megaton Holiday Special

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Spawn #39

by Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo

"Noel"
Dedicated To: Phyllis Capullo

Christmas Eve. Harlem, New York. Rows of buildings house people... families. Some extended, some broken. The lucky ones prepare for the evening's festivities.

Footsteps. Lots of them! OH! Maybe... YES! It's them! The little helpers! THAT means... ...SANTA'S HERE!

He forgot us. Maybe I can still catch him. Don't go. You forgot mommy's present.

Megaton #1-4 (1983-1986)

by Gary Carlson & Erik Larsen & Ken Landgraf & Co.

The Robot Wars ended in victory for the machines! Humanity was outlawed and life became a struggle to replace flesh and bone with steel and wire! Those who don't renounce their humanity either become slaves or escape to the war-torn wastes of the old world!

Vanguard #0-6 (1993-1994)

by Gary Carlson & Tomm Coker & Jason Pearson & Joe Madureira & Rick Leonardi & Angel Medina & Andy Smith & Co.

...I've got to stay in shape in case our enemies-- the Tyrrus Combine-- attack our outpost here on Earth!

Berzerker #1-6 (1993-1994)

by Gary Carlson & Angel Medina & Steve Adams & David Noble & Co.

Behold Mechanopolis! Behold the empire! Built laboriously of brick and stone, it rises from the ruins of the old world, to stretch over 700 miles along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America... One hundred years have passed since the humans lost...

Vanguard: Strange Visitors #1-4 (1996-97)

by Gary Carlson & Scot Eaton & Bill Anderson

Your leaders enslaved his people, experimented with their DNA, killed his family and comitted genocide against his race... and you call him the monster?!

Megaton Holiday Special (1993)

by Gary Carlson & Steve Adams

I stopped believing in Santa Claus a long time ago! 'course, I never used to believe in aliens, either!

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First Appearance: MEGATON #1 (1983)
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Spawnometer 0:0:3:8: WildC.A.T.s vs. Cyberforce: Killer Instinct

Spawn #38 &
WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9
& Cyberforce #0-3 (1993-1994)

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Spawn #38

by Todd McFarlane & Julia Simmons & Tony Daniel & Kevin Conrad

"Mind Games"
Dedicated To: Marv Wolfman

My name is Frederick Willheim, and I was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Anna. Intelligent. Caring. Beautiful... she did me the honor of becoming my wife... Her health then declined rapidly... I then focused solely on studying neurology, and vowed to save her or die trying.

Learning of my research, the U.S. Army invited me to head up their Cybernetic Simian project.

When the Cy-Gor moved of its own free will... I've had a stroke... I cannot reach her. My Anna... The beast... It hasn't eaten. It will escape... It will want my Anna...

WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #5-9

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Cyberforce #0-3 & (1993-1994)

by Marc Silvestri & Eric Silvestri with Walter Simonson

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2019 Fandemic Tour Fortress colors by Daniel Dahl

As previously mentioned, I tried to complete the Image Comics 25th Anniversary Jam over the weekend of the 2017 Heroes Convention. The piece went home with artist Evan Dorkin, who did an extraordinary of expanding and solidifying the overall... er... image, though I have to date only shown off the Background Roughs. After I got the finished linework back, against the advisement of Dorkin, I began to get the figures colored in 2019. Then COVID happened, which was still casting its shadow during Image's 30th anniversary celebration last year, meaning I'm still working on the those colors six years later. Further, production of the Spawnometer podcast has slowed to just a few times a year, leading me to neglect the related blog and sit on completed art elements. All caught up? Okay, so Daniel Dahl did a wonderful job of fleshing out Gilbert “Beto” Hernandez's sketch of Rob Liefeld's Supreme, and gave his brother Jaime “Xaime” Hernandez the same treatment on Whilce Portacio's Fortress. As much as I enjoyed my themed misadventure of having creator-owned comics pioneers draw the Image founders' characters, I really feel like the colors took the project to another level, and I have to thank talents like Daniel Dahl for providing for and proving that to be true.

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Spawnometer 0:0:3:7: 1963

Spawn #37 & 1963 (1993)

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Spawn #37

by Alan Moore & Todd McFarlane & Greg Capullo

"The Freak"
Dedicated To: Keith Giffen

They called him Dr. Delirium, an insane scientist with the means to control minds... or else destroy them!

These are the merest fraction of the psyche-shredding mechanisms at Delirium's disposal. This is the cold, oil-perfumed zoo in which he keeps the metal beasts that tear men's heads apart.

I'm sorry to call you down here so abruptly, Mrs. Kulbiczi. Your husband escaped from the institution, AGAIN...

1963 #1-6 (1993)

by Alan Moore & Rick Veitch & Steve Bissette & Jim Valentino & Dave Gibbons & Don Simpson & Chester Brown & John Totleben

Shadowhawk #14 & A Touch of Silver #5 & Big Bang Comics #35

by Jim Valentino

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