CBR: The Shadow Falls on Dynamite Entertainment

[CBR News]

Dynamite Entertainment has announced that The Shadow, Conde Nast's popular pulp hero icon, will be joining the publisher's line up of licensed characters.


Full article here.

[Jim Thompson]

This is AWESOME news!

[Jack J Napier]

The jae lee cover is amazing

[jsf]

This IS awesome news.

Can't wait. Hopefully they'll do it as a period book and avoid the mistakes DC made with First Wave. In fact, I'd love to see Francesco Francavilla do an arc or two -- I believe he really likes the character, and would be tremendous on art.

[emb021]

WEEELLLLL

After the fiasco that is/was DC's First Wave, and the less then stellar work of Moonstone's "Return of the Originals", let's hope Dynamite can do better.


Advice: be TRUE to the character of The Shadow. We WANT 'our grandfather's' Shadow, not some stupid updating it.

Be respective of the many fans out there. We aren't a half dozen old farts you can insult...

[The Gorn Identity]

About. Friggin'. Time.

This is awesome news that I've been waiting to hear. And, yes, I do agree with those that say make this a period piece set in the 1930's and 40's.

[GatheringComic]

This is great. Really excited about this.

[mobbdeep]

I would be happy if they got the rights to reprint the DC work by Howard Chaykin, Bill Sienkiewicz and Kyle Baker as well as the DC/Marvel/Dark Horse Denny O'Neil and Michael Kaluta work.

[hondobrode]

Outstanding !

Loves me some Shadow ! I have complete faith that Dynamite will do a fantastic job with him.

Does DC still have the licensing rights to Doc Savage ?

Maybe after the license expires at DC, Dynamite could assume that character too. A split book would be great with both characters.

[batlash]

I'll wait and see. I love The Shadow beyond nearly all over characters in pop culture. I'm always up for a Shadow comic assuming it stays true to the character (unlike that Baker/Helfer fiasco at DC that totally desecrated the character). I think Dynamite might do this right, but one word of advice to the artists: Pay attention to the hat! The Jae Lee image is nice, but he has totally missed the Shadow's slouch hat. Same goes for the Alex Ross image. Artists planning to draw The Shadow need to study George Rozen's pulp covers and Mike Kaluta's art. Learn to draw the hat or go home. The brim isn't straight. It dips and curves. I know it might seem like a petty issue to some, but to my eye if the hat is wrong it just looks goofy, and The Shadow should never look goofy. (That's one of the shortcomings of DC's recent "Spirit" series is the interior artists can't seem to draw Denny Colt's fedora.) That said, I'm looking forward to what Dynamite can do. Let's have a mysterious Shadow set in the 1930s with twin .45s (another incorrect detail in Lee's image...did he borrow those guns from The Dark Tower?) and Harry Vincent and all the rest.

[Mr. Q]

That is awesome news to hear. I've been dying to hear if Dynamite Entertainment would snag the Shadow and my wish has come true. Yes, it definitely must be done as a period piece. But I would like to see if they will stay true to the pulp magazine origin, the radio version or a mixture of both?

Also, Dynamite has to do this one thing. They have to do this in honor of the late Dave Stevens. Dave gave readers a "wink" to a certain pulp hero when Cliff went to New York and worked alongside the mysterious "Jonas" in the second part of the Rocketeer series. He just couldn't legally pull it off. They have to do a crossover between Dynamite and IDW and bring us THE lost tale of two unlikely heroes...



The Rocketeer and the Shadow!

For me, its gotta happen. Just something that Dave would have loved imo.

Mr. Q

[Ed Love]

That is awesome news to hear. I've been dying to hear if Dynamite Entertainment would snag the Shadow and my wish has come true. Yes, it definitely must be done as a period piece. But I would like to see if they will stay true to the pulp magazine origin, the radio version or a mixture of both?

Also, Dynamite has to do this one thing. They have to do this in honor of the late Dave Stevens. Dave gave readers a "wink" to a certain pulp hero when Cliff went to New York and worked alongside the mysterious "Jonas" in the second part of the Rocketeer series. He just couldn't legally pull it off. They have to do a crossover between Dynamite and IDW and bring us THE lost tale of two unlikely heroes...



The Rocketeer and the Shadow!

For me, its gotta happen. Just something that Dave would have loved imo.

Mr. Q

And the Green Hornet and the Phantom.

[Professor Moriarty]

best news i've heard all day!!!!!

[T.O.M.]

Definitely got my interest, but I was a little disappointed that it was only to announce they have the property.
So right now it looks like it will be a year before we get any real news on the project.
And I doubt Dynamite will really do the original character in the 1930's, they almost always update and change the characters.
And this may prove either good or bad, depending on who's on the books.
So I'll wait and be cautiously optimistic.

[pops gustav]

DYNAMITE really needs a new logo. That thing is horrendous, and the ugly red/yellow block on the artwork is so distracting that it takes away from the overall impact of some really nice covers....