Boy, there's a lot of twists and turns going on in this thing now. We have the new creative team coming on board with issue #185, so I'm thinking that this particular story-arc's purpose is to define Al's family and blood-line, before we move into the next chapter of Spawn. The last couple of issues we've seen how Mammon has been playing Al's family for quite a while now . . . with the help of his mother. In fact his interest in the Simmons family has gone back for a few generations. However, this issue we also find out that he has manipulated Wanda's family. Much in the way that he arranged Al's parents marriage, to facilitate his conception . . he's also brought Al's and Wanda's family together to create the perfect candidate for his ultimate hell-spawn. Is it Cyan? Ok, remember when Al started getting all of his memories back and he figured out that Cyan isn't actually his, but Terry's? Because when Wanda was pregnant by him he punched her in the stomach to help abort it. Actually it was Mammon's influence that drove him to that rage. Neither of them remember it but the child was actually born alive. Mammon's been keeping her in limbo, training her, while she grows up. Her name is Morana. She's Mammon's ultimate candidate as his hell-spawn. And that's also why he had the vampire thing infect Spawn, to help separate Al and the costume. I think his goal is to have the symbiotic apparel attach itself to Morana. I'm not sure how they're going to stop it because it's just Al, Wanda and Cyan in limbo with Mammon. It's going to be a shame to see David Hine and Brian Haberlin leave this series. They've been doing such a fantastic job. But, I also really can't wait to see what Whilce Portacio does. I'm a big fan and he should be fantastic on this series. But either way, I'm diggin' this series right now.
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