MattBrady
11-25-2002, 07:22 AM
<a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/Shadows.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/Shadows_t.jpg" width="175" height="274" align="right" border="0"></a>Announced last week, Image’s lineup grows by another title come February with the debut of Shadows by Jade Dodge and Matt Camp. It’s the story of four paranormal investigators who’s job it is to shine the light on the thing that goes bump in the night. We got Dodge to tell us some more, along with the first five pages of issue #1.
As the original press release stated, Dodge explained that there are five main characters in Shadows: Jacob Stevenson, Peter Shelley, Morgan Wells, Tyler King and Jillian Adams. Stevenson is both the team's co-founder and benefactor, fascinated by the paranormal, but unwilling to leave his home due to progressively intensifying delusional anxiety.
The second co-founder, Shelley, is also the team's field leader and a long-time friend of Stevenson's with a shared fascination in the unknown. The rest of the field team is comprised of Wells (a child genius struggling to find her place in adulthood without the help of her upper class family), King (a freelance paranormal investigator forced to join the team out of financial necessity) and Adams (a street kid who crosses paths with King while working on a case in San Francisco and is taken under the team's care as part of King's agreement to work with Stevenson and Shelley).
But enough with the third person - here's Jade:
"Shadows originated out of my childhood obsession with the paranormal. Yet, while Shadows does technically fall into the subgenre of paranormal detective, it's the psychological aspects that I feel set it apart.
“Each character is tormented and tragically flawed, though none would admit to it. They fight desperately to keep their debilitating psychoses, tortured pasts, and shame from the rest of the world. But the affect the cases have on their perceptions slowly bring these issues out of hibernation. But, rest assured, even though a great deal of emphasis is placed on these psychological transformations, an equal amount of attention and detail is invested in the case plotlines, as well.
“Their adventures run the full-spectrum of the paranormal- from main-stream phenomenon to the more obscure. Shadows is a complex web of the supernatural, personal desperation, and surprising subplots. Enjoy the ride!"
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<center> <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p1.jpg"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p1_t.jpg" width="140" height="210" hspace="2" alt="Shadows #1, page 1" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p2.jpg"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p2_t.jpg" width="140" height="210" alt="Shadows #1, page 2" border="0" hspace="2"></a><a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p3.jpg"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p3_t.jpg" width="140" height="210" hspace="2" alt="Shadows #1, page 3" border="0"></a></center>
<center> <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p4-5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p4-5_t.jpg" width="250" height="188" alt="Shadows #1, page 4-5" border="0"></a></center>
As the original press release stated, Dodge explained that there are five main characters in Shadows: Jacob Stevenson, Peter Shelley, Morgan Wells, Tyler King and Jillian Adams. Stevenson is both the team's co-founder and benefactor, fascinated by the paranormal, but unwilling to leave his home due to progressively intensifying delusional anxiety.
The second co-founder, Shelley, is also the team's field leader and a long-time friend of Stevenson's with a shared fascination in the unknown. The rest of the field team is comprised of Wells (a child genius struggling to find her place in adulthood without the help of her upper class family), King (a freelance paranormal investigator forced to join the team out of financial necessity) and Adams (a street kid who crosses paths with King while working on a case in San Francisco and is taken under the team's care as part of King's agreement to work with Stevenson and Shelley).
But enough with the third person - here's Jade:
"Shadows originated out of my childhood obsession with the paranormal. Yet, while Shadows does technically fall into the subgenre of paranormal detective, it's the psychological aspects that I feel set it apart.
“Each character is tormented and tragically flawed, though none would admit to it. They fight desperately to keep their debilitating psychoses, tortured pasts, and shame from the rest of the world. But the affect the cases have on their perceptions slowly bring these issues out of hibernation. But, rest assured, even though a great deal of emphasis is placed on these psychological transformations, an equal amount of attention and detail is invested in the case plotlines, as well.
“Their adventures run the full-spectrum of the paranormal- from main-stream phenomenon to the more obscure. Shadows is a complex web of the supernatural, personal desperation, and surprising subplots. Enjoy the ride!"
Click on the thumbs for larger versions of the images…
<center> <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p1.jpg"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p1_t.jpg" width="140" height="210" hspace="2" alt="Shadows #1, page 1" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p2.jpg"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p2_t.jpg" width="140" height="210" alt="Shadows #1, page 2" border="0" hspace="2"></a><a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p3.jpg"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p3_t.jpg" width="140" height="210" hspace="2" alt="Shadows #1, page 3" border="0"></a></center>
<center> <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p4-5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.newsarama.com/Image/shadows1_p4-5_t.jpg" width="250" height="188" alt="Shadows #1, page 4-5" border="0"></a></center>