Former Special Forces agent, Al Simmons returned from the dead in the form of a Hellspawn, a soldier who was charged with leading the infernal hordes against the divine armies. Disoriented, in the midst of discovering his new powers, Spawn now spawns in the New York lowlands and faces, in addition to the suppôts of Malebolgia, Prince of Hells, the first heralds of a God without mercy.