I received an ARC of this comic from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I found this compilation to be very interesting. The whole concept would be fascinating for anyone really. Imagine if Superman were pulled into the Twilight Zone---what would happen to him? How would his reality melt or alter?
The artwork was quite noirish and well done. Very much to the time period involved. The story line was interesting, particularly to someone like me who is familiar of course with The Twilight Zone but not so much with regard to The Shadow. The idea of where justice ends and mindless vigilantism is certainly very appropriate and worth considering.

4 stars. Well done on all levels.
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Review coming soon, I'm just too awestruck to write anything comprehensive right now. This was brilliant! ( )

***Mild spoilers***

This is a bit of a curiosity among comic book crossovers: whereas most will throw Batman/Captain Kirk/the Power Rangers/the cast of the Planet of the Apes against each other to have a big scrap and then get on with defeating some shared enemy, The Twilight Zone/The Shadow is a bit more thematic in its execution. Knocked out by sleeping gas, the Shadow finds his mind leapfrogging between bodies and dimensions Quantum Leap style, back along his fictional and factual history.

I'm a big fan of The Twilight Zone – each episode is a case study in plotting, world-building and suspense – and this does a good job of applying its structure and tone to a pre-existing property; the story bears a close resemblance to the "Time Out" segment of the 1983 film version (loosely adapted from the episode "A Quality of Mercy" and now infamous for the onset deaths of Vic Morrow and two child actors), in which an outspoken bigot is sent bouncing through time to learn the error of his ways. If you're going to ape, ape the best.

I was less familiar with the Shadow, though he cropped up in Philip José Farmer's The Peerless Peer which I recently read, so I was more aware of him than I might otherwise have been. But that wasn't a problem: for what is really an exercise in fan service it does, by the nature of its conceit, act as quite a good introduction to the character and his history.

The Shadow began life as the narrator of The Detective Story Hour on US radio, but proved so popular with listeners he was given his own pulp magazine; the first story was written by Walter B. Gordon, who appears here in fictionalised form as Art/Arthur (the Maxwell Grant pseudonym is real, though). The character returned to the airwaves with his own show in 1937; he was played for the first year (and most famously) by Orson Welles, who turns up in lawsuit-dodging form as Preston Springs (cf. Charlie Chaplin/Archie Maplin in IDW's Doctor Who comic). Madge Minafer is a similarly disguised version of Agnes Moorehead, her pseudonym apparently drawn from her role as Fanny Minafer in Welles's 1942 film version of The Magnificent Ambersons.

This is no doubt an absolute treat for Shadow fans and for a newbie like me it was still a lot of fun. The idea of a structural crossover comic book is an effective one, and I can't help but wonder what other weird avenues my favourite characters could get lost down... in the Twilight Zone. ( )

I have always enjoyed the Twilight Zone, comic books, but have never got into the Shadow. This is an interesting four part series with the main character being thrown into a world where is an individual that makes up the Shadow (actor, crime fighter, writer, etc…) the artwork gives the feeling of the time period and it has the Twilight Zone feeling, but Rod Serling to introduce the stories (although I could hear his voice as I was reading the openings). Enjoyable but I was not mesmerized. ( )