EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Jordan & Zircher's "Shadowman" #1

**CBR News** · 08-31-2012, 08:58 AM

Valiant Entertainment has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at the first six colored and lettered pages from Justin Jordan and Patrick Zircher's November-debuting "Shadowman" #1

Full article here.

**BrotherUnitNo_4** · 08-31-2012, 09:20 AM

Now this looks good.

**havok1977** · 08-31-2012, 09:25 AM

Thats a great preview, I was kinda on the fence about Shadowman since I never really got into him back in the day... not anymore.

**crossbones** · 08-31-2012, 10:38 AM

this had better be bad ass when it arrives.

**finfangfool** · 08-31-2012, 10:46 AM

I dismissed this Valiant incarnation as the latest in a long line of attempts to reboot the company, destined to fail like the rest, but Archer & Armstrong was really good, and now this looks interesting as well. Going to have go back and check out the other books now, hope too many people didn't make the mistake I did.

**Brandon McKinnis** · 08-31-2012, 10:51 AM

This looks awesome. Valiant is slowly replacing all my big two books.

**Captain Craig** · 08-31-2012, 10:55 AM

Ah, yeah, that was an awesome preview!!
Can't wait!
Master Darque looked very intimidating as well.

**BugsySig** · 08-31-2012, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by finfangfool

I dismissed this Valiant incarnation as the latest in a long line of attempts to reboot the company, destined to fail like the rest, but Archer & Armstrong was really good, and now this looks interesting as well. Going to have go back and check out the other books now, hope too many people didn't make the mistake I did.

Glad you are on board...would hate for anyone to miss out on these great books.

I don't know about "long line" of reboots, though. There was the initial changeover to Acclaim's version of the characters, then Acclaim Comics Valiant Heroes two years later. Then the company didn't produce anything for 15 years after bankruptcy, auction and legal battles until the new VEI books launched.

If you are thinking of the Gold Key reboot over at Dark Horse, then that is a mistake a lot of people have made. That relaunch had absolutely NOTHING to do with VALIANT comics except having characters formerly licensed to them and being written by Jim Shooter (who had briefly been EiC of VEI in 2009/10 before taking the concepts to DH and convincing them to reup the license for the characters behind VEIs back).

That has been an issue with LCS owners who were using the DH Gold Key books to gauge their orders for the new VALIANT. I know VEI has worked very hard to build relationships directly with retailers and break that line of thinking.

Sorry for the rant...as for the priview: HOLY *SQUEE* that looks awesome!

**Brandon McKinnis** · 08-31-2012, 11:10 AM

Hopefully the new Valiant books all do well. I'd like to continue pulling them for a long time based on the enjoyment I'm getting out of their current offering.

**thewarning** · 08-31-2012, 11:13 AM

That art..!

**Dark-Flux** · 08-31-2012, 11:22 AM

Pre-ordered!

**Greg Anderson** · 08-31-2012, 11:31 AM

I'm a bigger fan of the Acclaim version of Shadowman, but I can get on board with this one thus far. Some of the dialogue seems wonky but I have to admit I had a lot of fun reading those pages.