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| Shadowman #3 Cover B by Tyler Kirkham |
In Shadowman #3, Jack Boniface stumbles through darkened alleys of Barcelona, Spain. Someone pursues him. Someone Jack fears.
When Shadowman talks, usually a black dialogue balloon wafts gently above him. Now, it's like Shadowman spits it out. The utterance seems more a grunt than a sigh.
The loudness--and the intensity--of his attacker's screams threaten to paralyze.
A spiky dialogue balloon shows how hard Jack works to fight back the malevolent spirits.
A larger spiky dialogue balloon--hardly a balloon, so composed of shards--reveal his pain and despair at the loss of his scythe.
The attacker's screams, and Shadowman's grunts and groans, tear at our hearts.
In Shadowman #3, Baron Samedi introduces another Human friend. Another man who talks with the King of the Loa. Yet his dialogue balloons are rounded and white, and the font seems normal.
Baron Samedi's dialogue balloons are also white. But then, Samedi's balloons are pudgy or cloudy. This, and an elaborate font, remind us of where the King of the Loa belongs.
Like another musician, Jack Boniface stands alone. A man in black.
Wait! Someone who speaks with a dialogue balloon even more pudgy or cloudy than the Baron's? And why is it yellow? What does that signify?
A sickly nature? An ability to infect others?
Whatever the answer, when the normally unruffled Baron Samedi yells--and in giant red font--you know he's not just being a drama queen.
I'd do what he says, Jack.
In Shadowman #3, letterer Clayton Cowles shows us the dangers that threaten us, should our protector Shadowman should be struck down.
Dragon Dave
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