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Moonshadow: The Definitive Edition--Expanded
A romantic, unreliable narrator leads us through his interplanetary coming-of-age story.
Known as America’s first fully painted graphic novel, the poetic, philosophical, and Kirby & Eisner Award-nominated Moonshadow receives a new edition.
Enhanced with a new painted cover by Jon J Muth and an expanded bonus section featuring concept art, early notes from the creative team, and script pages from writer J.M. DeMatteis, this influential, timeless “fairy tale for adults” also includes the Farewell Moonshadow illustrated novella. With gorgeous watercolor artwork by Jon J Muth and contributions from Kent Williams, Kevin Nowlan, and others!
Known as America’s first fully painted graphic novel, the poetic, philosophical, and Kirby & Eisner Award-nominated Moonshadow receives a new edition.
Enhanced with a new painted cover by Jon J Muth and an expanded bonus section featuring concept art, early notes from the creative team, and script pages from writer J.M. DeMatteis, this influential, timeless “fairy tale for adults” also includes the Farewell Moonshadow illustrated novella. With gorgeous watercolor artwork by Jon J Muth and contributions from Kent Williams, Kevin Nowlan, and others!
528 pages, Paperback
Published May 6, 2025
About the author
J.M. DeMatteis
1,941 books238 followersAlso Credited As:
DeMatteis, John Marc
Ellis, Michael
Lombego, Wally
Bio:
J.M. DeMatteis was a professional musician/singer and rock music journalist before entering comics in the late 70's.
Credits include Spider-Man, Moonshadow, Brooklyn Dreams, Justice League, Abadazad, Hero Squared, the Life and Times of Savior 28.
Created I, Vampire , Creature Commandos, Moonshadow, Hero Squared (co-creator), Abadazad, Stardust Kid, Savior 28 and more.
DeMatteis, John Marc
Ellis, Michael
Lombego, Wally
Bio:
J.M. DeMatteis was a professional musician/singer and rock music journalist before entering comics in the late 70's.
Credits include Spider-Man, Moonshadow, Brooklyn Dreams, Justice League, Abadazad, Hero Squared, the Life and Times of Savior 28.
Created I, Vampire , Creature Commandos, Moonshadow, Hero Squared (co-creator), Abadazad, Stardust Kid, Savior 28 and more.
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July 27, 2025
A magical, heartfelt trip.
November 22, 2025
A beautiful adventure
May 19, 2026
Barely 3 stars from me, and only because I made it through most of the book--and I really liked the overall idea of the story and all the watercolor work (of course).
The problem for me was: the execution of the story. Too much tit-and-ass either shown or in the book's attitude, so this is really a book for men (straight men, I mean). The creators could have withheld that Play-boy-ish nonsense and the book would have been a lot better, in my opinion. I wish comics/graphic novels would stop with so much of that content in general.* It's like too many comic creators are unaware that some women also want to read comics, including the ones about superheroes, although I think it can be fine if some men want to see that (just like I want to see the equivalent depictions of men). A simple solution: just list those comics as being for men.
(*I.e., showing women with big bubble-boobs, or the female characters are often in sexualized poses, but the male characters aren't at all--just please make it more evenly sexually exploitative for general-interest publications, sort of like Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Yes, it, too, is too often exploitative of women; however, there are a number of scantily-clad men in it, and beautiful and good-looking ones too. The star, Gil Gerard, is quite good looking, and he also runs around in spandex a lot.... That is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. I just love that fucking show lol....)
The problem for me was: the execution of the story. Too much tit-and-ass either shown or in the book's attitude, so this is really a book for men (straight men, I mean). The creators could have withheld that Play-boy-ish nonsense and the book would have been a lot better, in my opinion. I wish comics/graphic novels would stop with so much of that content in general.* It's like too many comic creators are unaware that some women also want to read comics, including the ones about superheroes, although I think it can be fine if some men want to see that (just like I want to see the equivalent depictions of men). A simple solution: just list those comics as being for men.
(*I.e., showing women with big bubble-boobs, or the female characters are often in sexualized poses, but the male characters aren't at all--just please make it more evenly sexually exploitative for general-interest publications, sort of like Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Yes, it, too, is too often exploitative of women; however, there are a number of scantily-clad men in it, and beautiful and good-looking ones too. The star, Gil Gerard, is quite good looking, and he also runs around in spandex a lot.... That is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. I just love that fucking show lol....)
January 12, 2026
Do you like Neil Gaiman but are, rightly, appalled by the man himself now he has been revealed as the arch manipulator and monster that he is? Well, step this way. This is like Sandman without the overwhelming whimsy/ goth overtones, a joyous and extraordinary travel into the human imagination and absolute strangeness. It’s inventive and bizarre and bawdy and furious and mystical and beautiful and baffling and… so much more. It’s an extraordinary thing, illustrated with impossible beauty, and occasionally goes a bit too far and sometimes doesn’t quite go far enough BUT at all times it’s pioneering and brilliant and restlessly and endlessly inventive. It’s the sort of thing I imagine you could obsess over for the rest of your life. It’s not entirely designed for my sensibilities, I will freely admit, but I recognise something completely unique when I come across it and more pertinently I recognise something that lesser and more derivative writers have been mining from for years. It’s difficult to write a review when all you want to do is throw hyperbole at it, but if anything deserves hyperbole it’s this incredible thing. Beautiful
November 18, 2025
Take. A. Pass.
I can’t believe I choked this pile of nonsense down.
The art is occasionally okay, but the story is not even close to worth half the time it takes to get through.
I can’t believe I choked this pile of nonsense down.
The art is occasionally okay, but the story is not even close to worth half the time it takes to get through.
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