The Shadow’s strange trip through time, space, and identity ends where it began: a Nazi Compound on Long Island. He confronts humiliation and death, justice and mercy, and some Shadows of his own. Submitted for your approval, the end of the Shadow’s odyssey through… the Twilight Zone.

The Shadow returns to his own reality, to find himself captive. Except he is a changed man, from his time spent exploring alternate versions of himself. It’s like he actually learned something from those strange journeys in the Twilight Zone. Writer David Avallone leaves us with a very interesting end epilogue that makes me one think.

The art by Dave Acosta returns to a much darker, and violent roots, as the Shadow returns to reality. Managing an almost radical shift the previous issues. That actually works well for it, as the final issue gets more graphic, and violet.

Story: David Avallone Art: Dave Acosta
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

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What if you discovered your whole life was an elaborate, unbelievable fiction? And what if you found yourself tasked with creating it all over again, from the beginning? In a wondrous land bounded only by imagination, a typewriter can kill just as surely as a gun. The Shadow finds himself with an unwritten future, facing a blank page straight from a mysterious stationary store that we call… the Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone: The Shadow #3 is stranger than fiction, with a twist that only the Twilight Zone can deliver. Written by David Avallone, Maxwell deals with a meta-crises within himself as he tries to figure what is real, and what is fiction. In the process of doing so he is dragged into his fiction, only to encounter Justice. Fortune briefly smiles on him, as he realizes that reality and fiction are not as separate as they seem.

The manuscript page by artist Dave Acosta is simple, but elegant. It allows the story to be bolstered as Maxwell tells some of his backstory. And it’s an interesting backstory involving World War II and him learning an ancient secret.

Story: David Avallone Art: Dave Acosta
Story: 8.5 Art: 8 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

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Picture if you will: in your own world, you’re a fearsome crime fighter who stalks the night. But you wake up today in another world, where the fearsome crime fighter is just a character you play in a radio show that bears his name. You are no longer a man with a mission, just a 22 year old prodigy with an impressive voice, and a lot of questions… an honored guest who has been invited into… the Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone: The Shadow #2 is a complex story and filled with a mix of noir, sci-fi, and the type of strangeness that can only be found in the Twilight Zone. Writer David Avallone nails the combination of all those genres together. I will admit the identity crisis the main character is intriguing, and well thought out. I’m curious to see if that will impact the story, as the character is split between three identities.

I love the cover art, as it manages to capture the essence of the story extremely well. The art inside by Dave Acosta is realistic without it being overly gritty. The comic takes a clear inspiration from old noir films and comics.

Story: David Avallone Art: Dave Acosta
Story: 9 Art: 9 Overall: 9 Reccommendation: Buy

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He knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men… but who knows what lurks in the heart of The Shadow? Find out, in the first issue of this mind-blowing four-part storyline entitled “Shadow of a Doubt”, as the Master of Men takes a fateful step into that wondrous land bounded only by imagination: an area which we call… The Twilight Zone.

Just when I thought the Shadow couldn’t get stranger they thrust his alias into the Twilight Zone in The Twilight Zone: The Shadow. The combination makes this comic oddly brilliant as we meet a version of The Shadow where he wakes up after attacking a Nazi camp. Of course it only gets stranger as he begins to realize the world is very different.

The noir influenced art style manages to blend in oddly well into the natural strangeness of the twilight zone. I will admit I loved the beginning action scene as the fire fight begins. Even the small fight at the end, is well done with a strange amount of meta content.

Story: David Avallone Art: Dave Acosta
Story: 9 Art: 9 Overall: 9 Recommendation: Buy

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