Comments on: Shady skies ahead in August

By: Matt Duarte

Matt Duarte — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:29:53 +0000

I’m going to be sticking with the main series, Daredevil, and Blood of the Streets, for the simple reason that they are all written by Diggle and Johnston. They are the main scribes behind this event, so everyone else is just additional stuff, that I figure will not play a big part in the main plot of Shadowland. Might come back for the trade of those whenever they do come out.

The one-shots do have some really good creative teams behind them though.

Oh, and I normally get Thunderbolts, so count that one too.

By: Aaron K

Aaron K — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:12:25 +0000

@David I wouldn’t consider this a “Mega-Crossover” at all. While Siege had tie-in issues in New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Dark Wolverine, Dark Avengers, Thunderbolts, Avengers: The Initiative, Thor, and (I think) New Mutants, this series has tie-in issues with only Daredevil and Thunderbolts. All the rest are miniseries/one-shots written specifically for this event.

Regardless, like you, I find I’m so much of a completist that I’ll be hard-pressed to stop myself from buying any of these! Life is rough for us compulsive types.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:48:01 +0000

I’m definitely gonna try my best to get every issue that ties into Shadowland, just because I’m cursed with being a completist. But in any case, I am interested to see how the stories fit together. I too am one of those fans who loves to see more obscure characters get their own stories.

I recently began reading the Vengeance of the Moon Knight series and I’m loving the character, so I definitely want to see how Moon Knight fits into all this mess. Personally, I’m a fan of Ghost Rider, so I’ll be looking out for that one-shot. I also read somewhere that there’s an important plot thread that the Ghost Rider story provides.

I haven’t read any Elektra-related stories in a while, so that should be fun as well. The last Elektra story I read was way back in Elektra: The Hand, lol.

I think Marvel is getting cozy with their Mega-Crossover formula, but let’s hope the negative aspects of that don’t seep into this summer’s event. I’m sure they won’t, we have good writers working on this thing. : )

By: Aaron K

Aaron K — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:35:08 +0000

I will be very curious to see which of these titles moves the Shadowland plot forward and which merely have stories occuring in the Shadowland world, if that distinction makes sense. My initial thought is that the Power Man mini sounds like it falls into the latter camp, and that diminishes my interest in it, though I enjoy Luke Cage as a character. I would not be at all surprised if Shadowland: Spider-Man also fell into this camp.

I remain most excited about Blood on the Streets and Daughters of the Shadow. Maybe this just means I like minor characters getting their time in the spotlight, though perhaps it’s also an expression of my belief that more can happen with relatively minor characters in a miniseries than can happen with a major character. Nothing ground-breaking will happen to Daredevil in any of these miniseries; something big could happen to Misty Knight or Colleen Wing though.

For those who are Moon Knight fans, Tom Brevoort said on his Formspring page that the Vengeance of the MK title will becomes Shadowland: MK, which I take to mean that the latter title will die with Shadowland.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:44:39 +0000

I’ve given a fair bit of thought about how I’m going to follow this event as I have read the announcements about each new mini and one-shot. Since money is a bit of an issue I won’t be getting everything. Instead, I will focus on the main Shadowland series, DD, and trades for the minis (I’m really looking forward to Moon Knight, and Blood on the Streets since I really like the characters assembled and how often do we get a story that focuses on them?), but not the one-shots.

By: Polter-Cow

Polter-Cow — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:30:36 +0000

Holy craaaaaap, that’s insane. I thought it was only going to be one miniseries! How am I going to keep up with all this? I think I might only follow the ones that Daredevil actually appears in. My dilemma is that I don’t generally buy single issues; I like buying trades. So with a crazy event like this, I don’t know what will actually be collected in trades and how. I presume the main Shadowland series will get its own book, but I don’t know about the others. I’m more inclined to pick up one-shots since they’re low-commitment, so I may check out those for kicks. Or I may wait until you post to see what’s worth reading and/or buying.

The Daughters of the Shadow sound like an interesting mini, though. I may follow that one, if not buy it, and hope it gets collected in a trade.