Jack Boniface isn’t just deliberately looking for trouble when night falls; now it’s actively looking for him. When a local monster of a man named Sosa goes way, way over the line with his appalling activities, Jack decides to go after him, and to rescue his helpless victim. The problem is, Sosa has laid a trap for Jack, and the new Shadowman may not be able to escape it unscathed.

The subject matter of this issue is incredibly tasteless, but having lived through this era of comics, I can vouch for the fact that it was fairly common for the period, which saw a rise in violent and dark content that was sold as ‘mature’ to an increasingly older audience who were hungry for this type of content.

It does at least justify Shadowman’s indifference to killing, but it doesn’t excuse his repeated habit of putting innocent people in harm’s way and seeming not to care whether they’re hurt, or even if they survive.

Is a point being made about the Shadowman persona pushing Jack over the line? Perhaps, but it’s still too early in the run to know for sure. Still, in getting to know the premise of the comic a little better, I am starting to become more involved in it. However, it is a shame that the creators are resorting to such cheaply tasteless subject matter to make the antiheroic vigilantism of the series feel warranted; it’s pretty grim stuff, completely unnecessarily so, in my humble opinion.

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