From award-winning writer/artist, Todd McFarlane comes a demonic creation with a blood-soaked past and a new afterlife as the most tortured anti-hero of them all...Spawn! Al Simmons has been to hell and back. Literally! A former government agent, he died violently. But five years on he finds himself alive once more, altered beyond all recognition and possessed of dark and demonic powers . Simmons, desperate to see his beloved wife, has made a deal with the devil! Trapped between the living and the dead, between light and damnation, Spawn must try to piece together his own shattered memory. This edition features an introduction by series creator Todd McFarlane and never before seen early Spawn sketchbook art by McFarlane.