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Title: Utterly disgusting! This is not the Shadow...
Review: This book does have a decent story, even if the execution was pretty bad, but this story should have been told using a different character, not the Shadow. The Shadow should never be modernized because he fits so perfectly in that distinct and specific 1930's to 1940's period. This is more like the Sam Raimi creation, Darkman. Modernizing the Shadow and his world doesn't make sense because if he was to exist in 1985 (when this story was published) then he would be a feeble, old man. You don't modernize the pulps. You may be able to do it with Doc Savage, via a time machine, but the Shadow is considered sacred ground and just shouldn't be touched. Howard Chaykin admits that he wasn't much of a Shadow fan or pulp reader. Apparently that is true!I recommend the Shadow Strikes, In the Coils of Leviathan, Hell's Heat Wave and the Denny O'neil/Mike Kaluta run. DO NOT BUY THIS!
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