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The Shadow Strikes! #0
The Shadow Strikes
The Shadow stalks a deadly killer while his agents face their own dangers in "The Lord of Death."
- GenresComic Book
Paperback
Published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Gerard Jones
604 books21 followersGerard Jones is an award-winning American author and comic book writer. From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media, Malibu Comics and other publishers; including Green Lantern, Justice League, Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman.
Jones is author of the Eisner Award-winning Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004); Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993). Jones is co-author with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996), and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987-1993). From 1983 to 1988, Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He and Jacobs began writing humorous fiction again in 2008 with the online series My Pal Splendid Man and Million Dollar Ideas
Jones is author of the Eisner Award-winning Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004); Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993). Jones is co-author with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996), and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987-1993). From 1983 to 1988, Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He and Jacobs began writing humorous fiction again in 2008 with the online series My Pal Splendid Man and Million Dollar Ideas
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May 30, 2019
Some of The Shadow's best is to be found in this collection.
I think I like him better than Batman, overall. His relative obscurity will mean you won't find some of the really amazing hits or timeless classics, but he also skips on the really awful stuff, and more to the point, on all the gimmicky over-the-top superhero nonsense that inevitably has to fill the pages of an eighty-year-old best-seller comic series to try and remain fresh. Rather than madman clowns, The Shadow gets his tales out of real human history - for the most part - and real human history has some bizarre and exciting shit in it already.
Plus, I just like The Shadow's design a lot. The Batman was always a bit... goofy.
So I enjoyed my time throughout.
I think I like him better than Batman, overall. His relative obscurity will mean you won't find some of the really amazing hits or timeless classics, but he also skips on the really awful stuff, and more to the point, on all the gimmicky over-the-top superhero nonsense that inevitably has to fill the pages of an eighty-year-old best-seller comic series to try and remain fresh. Rather than madman clowns, The Shadow gets his tales out of real human history - for the most part - and real human history has some bizarre and exciting shit in it already.
Plus, I just like The Shadow's design a lot. The Batman was always a bit... goofy.
So I enjoyed my time throughout.
March 25, 2022
Decent series that tries to mix political issues and actual history into the tradition pulp adventures of the Shadow, and for the most part does it without watering down the action/mystery aspect or giving the heroes 'realistic' (read: unlikable) characterization.
Not every idea succeeds, but it was one of the better attempts at this sort of thing.
Art's really solid as well.
Not every idea succeeds, but it was one of the better attempts at this sort of thing.
Art's really solid as well.
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