It seems that Dark Horse is kicking off New York Comic-Con week with announcements to get ahead of the glut of news, and the first of today is their impending crossover with Dynamite, allowing Matt Wagner’s Grendel to square off against The Shadow.
The synopsis blurb for The Shadow vs. Grendel is as follows: “Best-selling author Hunter Rose is secretly the masked assassin and criminal overlord known only as Grendel. When an arcane artifact comes into his possession, Grendel finds himself thrust into a world for which he seems destined, where style and violence intersect to form a dazzling golden age. He will soon discover that this New York also has a fearsome protector—a dark and mysterious avenger whose name is spoken in hushed whispers, The Shadow!”
“Ever since the smash success of my two previous crossover events (with Batman), I’ve had many offers over the years to see Grendel cross blades with a varied host of other characters,” Wagner says. “But none of those opportunities ever excited me as much as this possibility. I’ve been a huge fan of The Shadow for many, many years and my love of the character finally saw fruition when I got the chance to literally re-define his origins by writing The Shadow: Year One for Dynamite. To have the chance to both write and draw The Shadow facing my own creation is something of a dream come true! It’s also adds yet another instant classic to my long legacy of Grendel projects with Dark Horse Comics.”
Wagner will be writing and illustrating the book’s three issues in a prestige format next year. Look out for it!
