The Shadow Tries to be Nice

[espanolbot]

Lamont is heading home after arranging a mission with some secret service friends from his WW1 days, where two children run into him...



He explains it to Margot Lane,

Comments

[icon_uk]

"HA HA HA HA HA! Come to bed Miss Lane"

After that charming little description of their life together, how COULD a girl refuse? (Seriously, was she supposed to be turned on enough by that conversation to even consider some nookie?)

[espanolbot]

Cranston... is a kind of weird.

[leoboiko]

I kind of want to punch him.

[espanolbot]

Ennis' Lamont is kind of the epitome of Good Isn't Nice.

[robinzegblu]

At least the rhinoplasty went well. Assuming this takes place after the last post he was in.

[espanolbot]

Different continuity, same publisher.

[icon_uk]

It's a hypnotic illusion thing perhaps? People don't register the schnozz because he doesn't want them to.

[darkknightjrk]

Doesn't look bad--is this book overall good? I may have to pick up the trade.

[espanolbot]

It's definitely worth a read, and I'd had to say that Ennis, with his knack for writing good war, spy and crime comics is ideally suited to the story. The Shadow has an unique voice, and Margot actually is fairly interesting in her own right, even if she doesn't have that much to do per se in the story (she's there partly to act as his assistant on the secret mission they're about to go on, and partly for Lamont to illustrate WHY he takes such a dim view of the likes of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany).

On thing that I thought that was interesting which I haven't really seen in other versions of the Shadow is the idea that just because he targets criminals instead of regular people these days, doesn't mean that he's "nice". If you surrender and mean it he'll let you go, but he'll go out of his way to make you suffer if he finds you to be unrepentantly evil. He mentions that before he became the Shadow he was a monster... arguably after he became the Shadow he still is, except he's now got supernatural powers as well.

That said, it IS a good comic, though it doesn't exactly settle the reader from the atrocities of the Japanese occupying army's activities in China, which is where the majority of the book is set and it's still kind of violent. Not PunisherMax levels, but there's a fair bit of claret sprayed all over the place.

[darkknightjrk]

So it's sorta like Punisher Max, but in the 30s and with supernatural powers? Fuck yeah, I'm in. :D

[bewareofgeek]

Exactly when did Jim Corrigan become the Shadow?

(or Kent Allard become the Spectre. Dealer's choice)

[donnblake]

He's... not very good at it, is he?

[deleonjh]

Cranston apparently doesn't consider children to be people.

[darkknightjrk]

Well, the mother was implying corporal punishment, so depending on how you feel about that...

[chieflewal]

I read Cranston in Alec Baldwin's voice.