By Someone Who Did Not Include a Byline
A popular trend in American media is to simply to take the characters and story from outdated books, TV shows, ect. and reimagine it for the modern world. This has been done countless times in movies, books, and TV shows with results ranging from anything as good as Marvel's The Guardians Of The Galaxy's to atrocities such as ABC's Once Upon A Time. Back in the dark age of comic books, Shadowman was one of Valiant comic's most successful comic books. Will it's remake comic from 2012 be able to live up to it's legacy or will it fall flat?
Shadowman Deluxe edition #1 is a four part comic series featuring Jack Boniface, a young museum curator who has apparently been switching from odd job to oddjob his whole life. After throwing away an amulet that he had his whole life Jack was given magic abilities by a voodoo spirit that had been passed down the Boniface family. The first comic in the series came out strong introducing a world with fantastic types of magic that most readers would be new while still providing the reader with the action they so crave. However this success was short lived as the next three comics focused more on explaining the more intricate details of magic in the Shadowman universe and the Shadowman's role in it. It skimped mostly on the gorey action that it's predecessor had provided. In the fourth comic Shadowman defeated his enemy, Master Darque by using a spell to force him to absorb himself, which was quite anti-climactic as they were building up to this fight over the course of the last two comics. Overall this series still seeming hold a lot of potential to thrive in reader interest but unfortunately in the first Deluxe edition it failed to deliver.
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