Shadowman Vol 5 6

No more lives whipping past me. Nothing left to grab onto. Just nothing. Is this what Samedi had planned for me? To just keep falling forever?

-- Jack Boniface / Shadowman

Solicitation[]

At humanity’s dawn…the rise of the Shadowman of 40,000 B.C.!

His soul cast adrift in the astral void, “DEAD AND GONE” has led Jack Boniface across the centuries in search of the origin of the Shadowman’s curse – and now it’s taking him all the way back to the beginning of mankind! Standing beside his ancestors in the kill-or-be-killed world of primordial Africa, Jack is about to awaken something ancient, hungry, inhuman…and, as darkness descends, the long-hidden face of the Shadowman loa will be known!

Dead and Gone, Part Three[]

Appearances[]

Featured Characters:

Standing Wolf (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

African Hunters / Tribe People (40,000 BC.)
- Quick Rat (Only appearance; dies)
- Slow Hippo (First appearance)
- Striking Snake (Only appearance; dies)
Alyssa Myles
Doctor Mirage
Shadow of Jack Boniface (Behind the scenes)

Villains:

Baron Samedi (In a vision)
Brethren
- Lionel Devereaux
The Sorcerer / Soul Taker (First appearance)
- Soul Taker's loa (First appearance)

Other Characters:

Abettors
- Earlene (Cameo)
- Henry (Cameo)
Li Hwen Mirage (Mentioned only)
Marius Boniface (Mentioned only)
Master Darque (Mentioned only)
Ninjak (Mentioned only)
Punko Mambo (Mentioned only)
Shadow Loa (Behind the scenes)
Standing Wolf's parents and the entire tribe (Murdered and burnt)
Unnamed pastor (All Saint's Crematorium)

Locations:

40,000 BC. (Upper Paleolithic / Late Stone Age)
- Africa
Deadside (Mentioned only)
Present
- Louisiana
  - New Orleans
    - All Saint's Crematorium
    - La Nouvelle Orleans Museum of Culture (Mentioned only)

Items:

Jack's saxophone (In a vision)
Shadow Scythe
Shadowman sign (first occurrence, chronologically)

Vehicles:

Credits[]

Writers: Andy Diggle
Pencilers: Renato Guedes
Inkers: Renato Guedes
Colorists: Renato Guedes
Letterers: Simon Bowland
Cover Artists: Tonci Zonjic (A), David Mack (B), Hannah Templer (Pre-Order), David Lafuente & German Garcia (1:20), Kaare Andrews (1:50)
Editors: Benjamin Peterson (assistant), David Menchel (assistant), Karl Bollers
Executive Editor: Joseph Illidge

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Quotes[]

Oh--! .. It's Samedi, all right. The scythe reeks of him... Jack's out there...I can feel him...but distant... He's falling...through darkness...no, through time...there's...jazz music...and a smell like...gun smoke...?

-- Doctor Mirage

Time...? Can you reach him? Tell me you can pull him back!

-- Alyssa Myles

Too late... He's falling again... out of his own bloodline... into the ancient past...before the Loa was ever bound... So far away...he's-- I'm sorry. I've lost him. He's gone.

-- Doctor Mirage

No more lives whipping past me. Nothing left to grab onto. Just nothing. Is this what Samedi had planned for me? To just keep falling forever?

-- Jack Boniface / Shadowman

Whoa... finally! -- Maybe third time's the charm. So where the hell am I? Who the hell am I? Whoever this dude is, he seems to know I'm here...

-- Jack Boniface / Shadowman

I do not know. I feel...as if a ghost has stepped into my heart. It is very strange.

-- Standing Wolf

...and that's when I realize -- there's no Shadow Loa to hide me from him... I'm finally free of it!

-- Jack Boniface / Shadowman

Standing Wolf. I know your face. I took it from the memories of your loved ones...when I ate their souls.

-- Soul Taker

No. I will not flee like a frightened hare. I will go north to the mountain. I will find the keeper of the dead. I will make her give me strong magic. And then I will find this Soul Taker and I will kill him, and free the spirits of our people.

-- Standing Wolf

I thought I'd fallen too far. I thought this was where my story ends... but I was wrong. This is where it begins.