The Shadow: Year One - Omnibus by Matt WagnerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wagner did a great job introducing this classic character to a modern audience. It seems hard to take a character from so many years ago into the current day. Matt Wagner manages to make it work in a respectful way. He still modernized the view of the character while acknowledging the time period that he operated in. A lesser writer may have tried to add or change parts of the history of the character to suit their own biases. Thankfully the publisher had this writer to keep a respectful view on what made the character work originally without sacrificing all of what would be questionable by today’s standards. This was the first full story that I have read about The Shadow and I’m glad that this writer was the one who introduced me to this character.
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