Todd McFarlane Spawn * SHE SPAWN Action online figure and Comic Issue #315 * displayed

Figure is 6" tall (ALL accessories included, NO damage, working Skull shooter) .. Comic is Very Fine (Boarded and bagged, includes Toploader)

A longtime supporting character in Todd McFarlane's Spawn has joined the millennia-old club of hellspawns, and it is, in a online way, the resolution of a log-dangling plot thread. In a way. This is, of course, not the first time it's taken quite a while for things to pay off in Spawn, which now has its place as one of the longest-running indie comics of all time.

Spoilers ahead for Spawn #300, out today.

In the issue, which features a series of short stories by McFarlane and a cavalcade of all-star collaborators, one of the tales centers on Jessica Priest, who first appeared in Spawn #61 and was later revealed to have been the person who killed Al Simmons, setting the stage for him to become Spawn. She finds her friend and informant Nyx bloodied and dead, with little idea who did it or why. Nyx's dead hand, though, points her to a hidden cache of information and weapons, including books of magic.

After finding a resurrection spell, Priest places an amulet on Nyx's body and chants the spell. Whether Nyx, who is not seen again once the magic starts to happen, survives or not is not known at this point, but what is known is that Jessica Priest has taken on a role that Nyx used to have -- the role of She-Spawn.

...That's right, folks: a Priest with powers from Hell.

Given that the relationship between Priest and Simmons has been...let's say strange...over the years, it's worth mentoning that the issue says unequivocally that She-Spawn's role will be to help Simmons in his quest to liberate humanity from the tyranny of Heaven and Hell.

Ironically, before she was inserted as the assassin who killed Al in the comics, she served in that capacity for the 1997 Spawn movie. At the end of that movie, apparently the original plan was to bring her back as a Spawn -- just like they did here -- but time and budget did not allow for the sequence to be produced.