Have you ever heard the Jim Steinman son Original Sin performed by Taylor Dayne for 1994 movie? youtube.com/watch?v=CXpWfd1BNkQ Its Jim Steinman so its got a kinda kitschy catch to it His and Meatloafs work would have fitted the 1970s/80s Batman actually
Good job OP. This is probably my least favorite part of Strikes as a whole but that's mostly because of my distaste for Doc Savage and how he's presented in the comic as a morally flawless character compared to The Shadow, which is what happens every time they crossover and I find it frustrating. But it's still a very enjoyable comic.
Do you plan on storytiming the other Strikes issues?
Asher Harris
Jones had a thing for innocent looking evil blondes didn't he?
Justin Harris
Mike W. Barr wrote this, Jones merely plotted
Jason Johnson
I've always thought that The Shadow would adapt well into a cyberpunk setting What does Yea Forums think?
Angel Ward
The Shadow would be a something contacting people through the net and even taking over and sending messages through things like elevator displays, making them agents The agents would be doing much of the leg work Is it a person? Is it an AI? Is it something else? There's the mystery.
Asher Ramirez
Cyberpunk tends to draw a lot from 40s noir, and that's the kind of atmosphere The Shadow lives in. And if the idea behind The Shadow was to present a terrifying personification of urban anxiety as a force for good instead of evil meant to push back against the greed and criminality that consumed America in the 30s, then it should be easy to take that concept and put it on a setting that is all about worlds consumed by urban anxiety and criminality. It's actually easier to handle The Shadow this way than it is to try and put him in contemporary times.
I like this idea. I would things a little different. In my version of a cyberpunk/future Shadow, The Shadow himself would be all over the place, but never actually appear, in person, as we expected him. We would see Lamont Cranston, and Kent Allard, and even Ying Ko and the Dark Eagle. We would see people co-opt the outfit and put advanced spins on it like cloaking devices or gloves that can perform the Devil's Whisper automatically. We would get new agents and villains, reinterpretations of concepts like The Sanctum, and Chinatown, and the relations the character has to radio and literature. Burbank would be the controlling A.I But The Shadow wouldn't even need to appear, with how pervasive and omnipresent his presence would be. He'd have "evolved", in a way, to literally become the setting and to fully transcend the text.
