THE SHADE #5 (OF 12)
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Art by JAVIER PULIDO
Cover by TONY HARRIS
Variant cover by JAVIER PULIDO
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
The Shade: A great shaggy-dog story, or the greatest shaggy-dog story?
I have no idea how a story can meander so much and yet hold my attention so vividly. Here, we're jumping around between three different time periods and two continents, retconning the Shade's already complex backstory (he's got vampire blood? What?) and getting sidetracked from the mystery of who tried to kill the Shade yet again. But Robinson's building a world around the Shade -- and a web of new relationships -- that, given time, could be every bit as rich as the one he built around Jack Knight, and that has me stoked.
Here are the selling points of this issue: Pirate vampires, a Goth-Lolita Spanish vampire superhero who thinks the Shade is her dad, and an evil cardinal in a Commedia dell'Arte mask. All are drawn splendidly by Javier Pulido, whose pacing is fantastic: That double-page spread of the Shade talking to Caldecott should not work with that amount of text on it, yet the big silent panel in the middle gives it ample room to breathe. We get a lot of shots of characters from behind, or at a distance, or with their faces obscured or cropped out. It's not ostentatious art, but it's gorgeous; it can show gory violence without revelling in it, which is important when your story involves vampires chomping into a baby.
Eventually we'll meander back to the original mystery, but even if we don't, I could care less. I have seen the Shade kill a ship of vampire pirates and suck their venom from a child; anything more beyond this is pure gravy.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
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