Jack Boniface is having trouble sleeping since his encounter with the mysterious, deadly Lydia, and his housekeeper, Nettie, seems to know exactly what’s wrong. Before long, Nettie’s sending him on a mission to take down a serial killer who’s lurking in the swamps…

There’s at least an interesting dynamic set up in this issue; Nettie’s knowledge of Shadowman and voodoo gives an interesting edge to Boniface’s story. It’s still not entirely convincing, and there’s some awkwardness that probably speaks more to the era it was published in than anything else, but I do at least appreciate the fact that it’s a proper attempt at telling an unusual superhero story with a cast almost entirely consisting of people of colour.

I’m going to keep reading the series anyway; after all, I did pick up quite a few of the issues for an incredibly cheap price at Portsmouth Comic-Con, so I’m pretty much locked in for as long as I have issues of Shadowman to read!

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