Grendel vs. The Shadow, by Matt Wagner
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Grendel vs. The Shadow, by Matt Wagner
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Sparks fly and bullets blaze when the original Grendel, Hunter Rose, is transported to 1930s New York and faces off with the original dark-night avenger, the Shadow! Two pulp-noir icons go head to head in a thrilling story written and drawn by legendary Grendel creator Matt Wagner. Grendel vs The Shadow channels the energy and swinging jazz of the 1930s, but pulls no punches as the criminal underworld is caught between two powerhouse personalities!
Grendel vs. The Shadow, by Matt Wagner - Amazon Sales Rank: #461615 in Books
- Brand: Wagner, Matt/ Wagner, Matt (ILT)
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.47" h x .66" w x 6.93" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Grendel vs. The Shadow, by Matt Wagner About the Author Matt Wagner was born October 9, 1961. He is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel. He has also worked on comics featuring The Demon and Batman as well as such titles as Sandman Mystery Theatre and Trinity, a DC Comics limited series featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. In 1991, he illustrated part of the "Season of Mists" story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series. Wagner currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife Barbara Schutz. They have two children. The author lives in West Linn, OR.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. My high hopes for this one were certainly met By Robert Fisher I have long been a fan of both the Shadow and Grendel (particularly the Hunter Rose incarnation). It's not hard to imagine how I felt when I saw that Matt Wagner decided to bring these two characters together; the only way he could have gotten me more excited would be to collaborate with John Ostrander on a Grendel/Grimjack crossover. I am pleased to say that Grendel vs. The Shadow met expectations and then some. The art is superb and the story kept me guessing how matters would play out. I should not have been surprised; I loved Wagner's first Grendel/Batman story and once again, he achieves great effects using more than one narrator. Grendel and the Shadow prove to be evenly matched in their encounters. Hunter Rose's comments on the literary giants of the 1930's made me think he would have made quite the Amazon reviewer. There is a mob boss's daughter who proves to be a most stunning figure and we get some insights into Margo Lane's thoughts on her relationship with the Shadow. The conclusion has several deliciously ironic touches. This proved a highly worthwhile purchase. Update 7/13/15: Did anyone else get the idea that in some panels, Matt Wagner seemed to be channeling Howard Chaykin (who also gave us an interpretation of the Shadow back in the 1980's)?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Very underrated Book By Stephen Vincent Kempton The 1980's was a great time for comics. The Independent companies and brilliant creator owned projects emerged. Among the leading edge of these fantastic creators was Matt Wagner and his Mage and Grendel books.Matt Wagner has not lost any of his skills over the years and the appearance of a new Grendel book written and fully illustrated by Wagner should really be treated as a much bigger deal then it has been.It features the first and best Grendel , Hunter Rose pairing off against the oldest mystery hero of them all, The Shadow.The story telling is simple direct and powerful. Matt Wagner's art is thing of beauty. He was doing the simplified, stylized art years before Darywn Cooke and others made it popular.Story wise we find Hunter Rose sent back from the 1980's (I presume) to the 1930's. Grendel sets himself up as a Mob Boss and falls for the sexy female gangster. Meanwhile Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are having problems and Margo is considering exiting their relationship. But the clash between Grendel and The Shadow is ready for a volatile eruption.While Wagner obviously nails Grendel it is his interpretation of The Shadow that makes this a classic. I guess I need to dig out that Shadow Year One series Wagner wrote and give it read very soon , because the man knows his Pulp characters.This co-publication from Dark Horse and Dynamite Comics was originally published as a series of three oversized 48 page comics in 2014 .Dark Horse has now collected it in a classy Hard Cover edition for under $20. It is a great value and an all around fun read. All Hail Matt Wagner and this very underrated book.Highly Recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Masterful and Thrilling! By Mike Hunter This superbly done book is another exceptional addition to comics tales of The Shadow, whose first printed appearance in 1931 sold out, and set off the “hero pulp” magazine craze.Matt Wagner's had a lengthy, distinguished career as a comics creator. A character he created and owns, the psychopathic, costumed master-criminal "Grendel," has been up to no good in varied incarnations for a quarter-century."Grendel vs. The Shadow" begins with a flashback to the 1930s, as The Shadow -- seen only as a pair of blazing .45s -- foils a Tong crime scheme aboard a ship, and an ancient Chinese urn is lost in the waters. In modern times, that urn is sold to Grendel, who is wearing his sinisterly-patterned mask during the transaction. The urn contains a mystic scroll, which when read aloud by the multilingual Grendel (AKA Hunter Rose, his successful novelist alter ego), plunges him back to the era of The Shadow.(Here there’s a witty nod to the "Wizard of Oz" movie: once Grendel enters the 30s, lush colors bloom, while his present had been almost wholly monochromatic. Special kudos to Brennan Wagner, Matt Wagner's son, for one of the most exquisite coloring jobs I've seen in comics. It was done on the computer, yet Brennan eschews the flash and garishness of lesser talents. The result is more watercolor-like, with reds and golden tones predominating. The lighting is superb; figures in deep shadows are colored with great finesse, so that they stand out just sufficiently, enabling Matt Wagner's inking to still stand out. The drawn art is enhanced rather than overpowered, as should be the case. The production and printing are topnotch as well.)Grendel/Rose, realizing where -- when -- he is, eagerly grasps at the new opportunity. An established overlord of crime back "home," he now, excitingly, has a new world to conquer!As it turns out, this is perfect timing for a disruptive element; a powerful, elder Don is dying of cancer, and there is a scrabbling and clawing among Mafia families to seize control. In one scene, we get a look at what these criminals are like: no Damon Runyon mugs with a soft heart here. These brutal, murderous thugs are attempting to terrorize a captured warehouse employee -- they'd already battered another one to death -- into telling them when the next shipment of still-illegal booze is scheduled to arrive, for them to steal. Doom is about to descend upon the hapless survivor, when bone-chilling laughter echoes through the warehouse.Matt Wagner's plot, given many pages to breathe, shows The Shadow's intelligence-gathering methods and a number of his operatives in the war against crime. (One of many signs of how well aware and respectful of Shadow-lore Wagner is.) Calls come in to Burbank, center of the network; he reports to The Shadow. "Cliff" Marsland, who'd joined a gang of bootleggers in his role as a mobster, breathlessly phones Burbank, telling how he'd barely escaped a murderous attack upon them by a startling new threat: Grendel, the costumed archcriminal employing his uncanny speed, agility, and distinctive bladed weapon, in an opening salvo in his bid to seize control of the city's organized crime. In a nightclub, Harry Vincent later chats up Sofia Valenti. She's the seductive and scheming daughter of the crime boss who seeks to rule all the "families," but finds himself forced to yield primacy to Grendel. Inspector Cardona and "Moe" Shrevnitz get their turns upon the stage as well.As in briefer past works, Wagner adds emotional substance and complexity to the plot with richly fleshed-out characters and interrelationships. Sofia's friendship with Frannie, the latter saddled with an abusive boyfriend, is affectionate, genuinely caring and protective. Margo Lane's thoughts, narrative voice, and the life-changing decision she finds herself considering are an important part of the heart of the story. Kudos to Wagner for showing her not simply as attractive, but convincingly possessing intelligence and depth. Even the calculating, ruthless Don Lorenzo Valenti is a devoted -- if sometimes exasperated -- father to Sofia, whom regardless of Mafia tradition, he considers his heir in the family "business" and is grooming to succeed him.Grendel and The Shadow, against criminals and each other, get several thrillingly choreographed and viscerally powerful battles amid the scheming and intrigues. Both character's personalities are strongly individualized and conveyed; these are no cardboard "villain" and "hero" figures.The Shadow, cloaked and as Lamont Cranston, is magnificently depicted by Wagner. Fiercely dedicated to his battle against crime as any Puritan elder in the struggle with Satan, one can easily see Wagner's Shadow as Robert E. Howard's demon-fighting Solomon Kane. Hawkish of visage, blazing of eye, it's no wonder Margo has to, in effect, tell him to "lighten up" at a social function.At this event, Hunter Rose (Grendel's public face) preens -- the character is too smug by half; Wagner doesn't make him particularly likable -- at finding himself the toast of the town, the literati delighted by an excerpt of his new novel, just published in "The New Yorker." For comics and superhero fans who thrill in spotting "Easter Eggs" that nod to other genre works, creators and characters, Wagner provides a more cerebral variety: we see faces from the Algonquin Round Table. Is that Alexander Woollcott? George S. Kaufman? And surely it's Dorothy Parker casting a sideways, skeptical glance at Rose...After The Shadow invades his home and interrogates Don Valenti (employing, as in the radio version of his adventures, hypnotic powers and his Girasol ring) cabbie/Shadow agent "Moe" Shrevnitz gives the cloaked crimefighter a ride to his Sanctum. The duo are unknowingly being tailed by Grendel, who after one spectacular battle with The Shadow, is determined to track this enemy to his lair. He is thrilled to discover such a worthy, challenging foe.I could go on and on enumerating the countless more thrills and delights to be encountered in Matt Wagner's "Grendel vs. The Shadow." Discover them for yourself!
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