The Overlap

The Overlap is filled with creatures from countless worlds and has no spiritual or physical laws. It is an elastic reality ripe for experimentation and discovery.

Two of its inhabitants, %^2 and %^9 experimented with the effects of nuclear energy on infernal matter by arranging for Spawn to be at the center of an atomic blast. They sent their fellow Overlap resident, Harry Houdini, to lure Spawn to the site.

Their experiment backfired when Houdini opened a dimensional rift and send the nuclear blast triggered by Yousef Volokhov to the Overlap. Yousef and his compatriots were sucked through the hole shortly after and became test subjects for the residents of the overlap.