The two previous issues of Shadowman took Jack Boniface to another world, in a pair of non-sequential chapters of a Valiant Comics, linewide crossover named Unity. In those issues, poor old Jack fell in love, and lost his clothes multiple times before also losing the love of his life.

That’s fairly swiftly dealt with here, as Jack returns to Earth, via the portal in the cave that got him to Crossover World in the first place.

And he’s soon tasked with a mission much more suited to Shadowman’s setting, in that he’s hunting down a vicious family of Bayou-based, probably inbred, serial killers.

It’s such a relief to be back on home turf with Shadowman, and this is a decent stab at a reasonably standalone tale, with some characteristically gruesome moments, and almost hilariously callous action, or rather inaction, by Shadowman.

I’m starting to get a proper feel for the formula of a Shadowman story, and this is one that definitely fits the mould. That’s not a bad thing, though perhaps it was just the case that I was so relieved to be done with that awful Unity nonsense.

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