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McFarlane Talks the Future of “Haunt”

By | June 8th, 2013
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In August, Haunt is returning in the pages of “Spawn”. Originally created by McFarlane and Robert Kirkman to be McFarlane’s second major creator-owned character alongside Spawn, the book was randomly cancelled when an abrupt set of pages in the book’s 29th issue announced that everything was over.

Why? Because even though some people (like yours truly), the book had taken a direction that McFarlane wasn’t a fan of. As McFarlane told Rich Johnston at the time,

Rich…I am looking to retool the book and make it more creepy. I want the word HAUNT to be much more meaningful to the impact of the stories in the future. I can introduce some new ideas for the book within the pages of SPAWN then bring the title back out again.

And he continued that thought in a recent interview with Comic Book Resources:

The first word I think of when I hear “haunt” isn’t “espionage” or “psychedelic.” I think of words that would creep you out and scare you. It’s a scary word! I kept trying to get somebody to scare me for just one scene. The guy’s name is Haunt, he’s got a skull face — someone scare the shit out of me!

So what’s happening next? Basically Haunt will be re-introduced in “Spawn” as a cameo before the book gets a relaunch with a new team, one that will be a consistent team for the title. McFarlane’s hope for the ook is that it will be “a suspense thriller with flecks of horror in it than a standard superhero book,” which is perfectly understandable.

Although I still think the Casey/Fox run was absolutely brilliant and completely underrated.

There is no planned team for the book yet, but #234 will be written by McFarlane with art by Szymon Kudranski.


Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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