Thoughts on the Shadow comics?
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Thoughts on the Shadow comics?
Thoughts on the Shadow comics?
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a little dark for me
It's a shame Dynamite never collected DC's Denny O'Neil run when they had the rights.
DC definitely should. My dad has the trades from back in the day and they're a solid read.
Has there been any other official Shadow stuff since James Patterson's god-awful novel from a few years ago?
What makes anything Shadow official? Seems like each version, and medium the character appears in has a totally different origin, name, and powers, or lack of them. Everyone that comes along has been reinventing the wheel for 90 years at this point.
Anything licensed through Condé Nast would be official.
yeah, he wrote a sequel.
I heard his Doc Savage novel wasn't that good either.
>I heard his Doc Savage novel wasn't that good either.
What the frick, he also went and put his name to a Doc Savage novel too?
https://www.jamespatterson.com/titles/james-patterson/the-perfect-assassin/9781538721841/
>Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero—is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling…as the perfect assassin.
>Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor.
>Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he’s been chosen, and how he’ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been. To prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world, they must pledge anew : Do right to all, and wrong to no one.
Basic rule: 70s DC stuff, Marvel Graphic Novel, The Shadow Strikes!, and the Dark Horse stuff are all worth reading. As is anything by Matt Wagner. Avoid anything else.
What's Garth Ennis's Shadow like?
I'll give it a chance because of the author involved, but I don't get my hopes up for anything published by Dynamite.
Phoned in. I don't think he even knew who The Shadow was. (Not BAD necessarily, but I'd recommend reading something else instead.)
IDK, But I absolutely love the radio plays. just the right mix of hoacky, sincere, and dramatic. His powers where really cool there too. Used the radio medium, he was able to hypnotize people to to just subconsiously ignore him and that played out well in the audio drama. Kind of one of the OG psychic super heros.
I also like the first published (think short story?) where he was basicly the head of an intellegence network and recruited people who had nothing to live for to give them a purpose again in life. Like a guy with a dead wife and lost all his money about to jump off a bridge, but before he can, the shadow takes him into his limozine and gives him an offer of redemption.
One thing I did kind of remember is that they really darkened and grittied him up in the later comics. when he was a pretty affable fellow in the radio plays. Wouldnt mind killing those who engaged in crime, but was generally a diplomatic affable guy with a nice witty back and forth with his lady secretary.
THE SHADOW KNOWS! HEHEHEHEHEHEHE
The Chaykin mini looks cool, but I heard he phoned it in.
>I heard he phoned it in
Not at all. What he DID do though was not give a single frick about the character. It's actually a decent miniseries and the art is great, but at the same time it's also very much a case of "The Shadow in name only".
Ah, ok.
How about the series where he has a super-hero costume?
The Archie series from the 60s? It's as bad as it looks.
Wait, what does he look like?
Would you watch it?
How much of the budget?
As little as possible, of course!
Is he allowed to kill people?
Hope so.
That is the norm.
And in droves.
I think the question is more whether or not a cartoon would show it. Infamously the 90s Spider-Man cartoon was not allowed to have Spider-Man punch people.
>Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Checked.
I want some The Shadow video game that is a like a cross between L.A. Noire and the Arkham games.
The 70's DC stuff is good but gets a little repetitive.
Chaykin was told 'throw ALL the old stuff away and modernize him" so he did at the height of his booze & drug days
The Helfer stuff is interesting but it gets too jokey.
The Shadow Strikes tried too hard to go back to the classic feel but the Doc Savage crossover is ok.
The Matt Wagner Dynamite stuff are probably the best Shadow comics made to date.
Avoid Steve Orlando's Shadow/Batman crossover.
If they used Toth's designs? yes
>but gets a little repetitive.
Like how repetitive?
The Andy Helfer/Sienkiewicz/Baker run was incredibly kino
both batman crossover are good
>batman crossover
Hilarious, considering Batman is a cheap copy of The Shadow.
Anons may be interested in this https://archive.4plebs.org/hr/thread/4359858/
Not OP, but thanks for that link.
Is the movie good?
The visuals are spectacular, it does a great job fusing the pulps and radio versions of Shadow, Cranston kills it as Lamont/Shadow, the villain actor does a great job.
Everything else is a mess. The script is a huge mess, the monster knife is awful, the finale is really underwhelming, there’s a point where “ancient science” becomes fricking wizards instead, and the origin for Lamont was poorly handled.
Dunno, but the pulps and radio show are fantastic.
could someone storytime The Shadow comics?
If this thread is still up in a few hours I might consider storytiming an issue or two. But I really don't have time right now.
Sure! But unfortunately all I have is The Shadow: Leviathan...
The Dark Horse mini? Or are you referring to something else?
Ive got several of the DC shadow comics, they're pretty decent but can be repetitive. Double Z and the Voodoo Master are my favorite of the pulps so far. Ive been trying to read the shadow year one omnibus from dynamite, but I'm having trouble finding it. Anyone got a mega link for it or other shadow content?
I assume this is a recent reprint.
Just from the price up in the corner.
It is. Nostalgia Ventures and other companies still do reprints every so often, putting 2 stories into 1 book
Cool thread.