Garth Ennis Writing The Shadow Ongoing!

[Admiral_Young]

This is pretty awesome news. I will be picking this up for sure.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/16/garth-ennis-writes-shadow-all-other-news-cancelled/

 

[Saga]

i knew that Dynamite was going to put out a Shadow comic soon, didn't know Ennis would be writing. i was gonna get it anyway, now it will be something i'm really looking forward to.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Pretty cool. That could actually tempt me to buying a comic for the first time in a long time.

 

[Captaindemotion]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/53209

This is that Garth has to say about the story (the interview is worth a full read for his other comments about the project):

GE: In early 1938, the Shadow is caught up in an international hunt for a prize so vital that it will change the future of the world. Together with the beautiful Margo Lane he travels from the seedy waterfront of New York City to the even seedier Shanghai underworld, where romantic dreams of the Fabulous Orient evaporate in the face of downright lethal reality. Sinister Nazis, Brutish Soviets, Chinese bandit kings, Japanese military intelligence agents and their American counterparts--all are caught up in the deadly web of destruction. Now read on.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Sounds like it could be good. The plot sounds interesting and they're keeping Shadow in the 1930s, thank goodness.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Bleeding Cool interviews (it's not Rich conducting the interview I don't think) Garth Ennis about the upcoming comic.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02...s-knows-what-evil-lurks-in-the-hearts-of-men/

 

[the G-man]

I picked up the first issue this weekend. It was very much classic Shadow with few "Ennisisms" (ie, no outrageous black humor or pisstakes on the subject).

That being said, I'm not sure the book was worth the money. It only took me about three minutes to read it from cover to cover. And it was really little more than a prologue

Surprised at how fast a read it was, I went back and counted the panels and pages.

The book had only 72 panels (a number of which were silent) over 22 pages of story, translating to an average of 3.3 panels per page.

Considering that comic books used to average six or more panels per page (and for comparison I went back to Ennis' "Preacher 1" and it averaged 5 panels per page), I can't say that I'm inclined to shell out $4.00 for a comic with so little story.

 

[Saga]

i feel that way about a lot of modern comics. i get to the end of the issue and i'm like...thats it? but it only took two minutes! but yeah, i enjoyed the first issue of this new Shadow series.