The Shadowman: Book One, tells us the story of a man who also happens to be a 'Shadowman', someone who's in charge of killing the horror creatures that cross the veil from the death side into the human world.

I do love cults and secret societies in books and I loved the beginning of the book when Jack, our main character, visits a rich family's house in which a mask party and some secret satanic rituals are being celebrated. I loved the artist's way of telling the story and I definetely want to know how the story continues.

It has the perfect amount of horror, gore, cult and rituals.

This was a unique comic with an mythology that I was completely unfamiliar with. The story was able to draw me into to the conflicts of the Shadowman. It was so fast paced with almost constant action to the point some sections felt way too short, but it made devouring the graphic novel easy. Now I hunger for the next book. The art style is wonderful. The character details give the world a nice edge and bite to the realism. I wish I would have seen more horror elements, but the action is superb. The characters have weight with their movements, and the different actions feel grounded even when a demonic creature is throwing our titular character through a wall. Overall, I give this book a 4 out of 5.

<b>The Shadowman cometh!</b>

This Volume of Shadowman Book 1 by Cullen Bunn contains Shadowman(2021) #1-4.

Jack Boniface is SHADOWMAN, a powerful protector with powers given to him by a Loa, who keeps humanity safe from the demons that claw at the fabric of our reality. And he's coming back with a different approach this time. This has gone from a character-centered arc to more of a monster-of-the-week arc with some overreaching plot points.

It's this shift in story-telling that affected my enjoyment of the story. Sometimes it's good to have this sort of approach towards the story, but I didn't feel that with this volume. It's still an enjoyable book, but just not the best.

Now this book's art was on point when it comes to getting the feeling of what Shadowman is. On this, I have nothing but props to Jon Davis-Hunt for his work.

All in all, this is still a good addition to any Shadowman fan's collection.

Like many of the stories Cullen Bunn writes, this one is just plain COOL. A man who is posessed by a Loa (a voodoo spirit) and becomes Shadowman sets out to hunt the things from the "deadside" who are killing humans. But who is the beautiful woman he keeps seeing in visions, and why does someone seem to be out hunting all those who have made pacts with Loas? Great cliffhanger ending and absolutely STUNNING creepy art!

Shadowman by Cullen Burnn is about a well, Shadowman who keeps the world safe from demons that try to harm our reality. Overall I enjoyed it, I liked the horror and gore elements and the art style was nice but I haven't read any other of the Shadowman variations so I don't think I have the same love for the story. If you like comic books or Shadowman in general I think you'll enjoy this it just wasn't for me.

I really enjoyed this! It was dark and so good! There was a great twist that I was not at all expecting. I would definitely recommend to a friend and I hope there are more to come.

Here he comes again, one of Valiant's least likeable title characters, and that's saying something. He's a musician hitched to a supernatural entity called a Shadow Loa, which means he can enter the demonic version of the Negative Zone, and police it, here and the places in between for our benefit. This four-parter is basically three issues of him plodding around with the ever-so annoying Baron Samedi – a character who does nothing for me, mostly because he does nothing – and one issue recapping the point of the whole piece. For yes, Cullen Bunn has managed to crow-bar A Point onto proceedings – a message, a moral, a reason for the whole plod to ever exist. And we have to thank all that's holy that he did because it would be deadly boring if he hadn't. This is mediocre dark fantasy, to say the least – and to call it horror is a great disservice to that genre, so I'm certainly not prepared to do that. What I will also do, though, is remind you that Andy Diggle's run on Shadowman was pretty much guff, too, so there was very little reason to believe this poisoned chalice of a title had come up trumps here. It hasn't.