Jim Downing's re-birth as the newest Hellspawn continues! No one is safe from the 'Curse of the Spawn, ' as the darkness surrounding Jim's life begins to spread, pulling Twitch and Detective Rowand deeper into a shadowy world of intrigue and horror. A crash course on the origins of Jim's new powers and the man known as Al Simmons leads to a violent confrontation with the one person Jim thought he could trust -- Clown!