BONES ARE BURIED FOR A REASON… As Shadowman returns to New Orleans with a revelatory new understanding of the immense abilities within himself he won’t have long to adjust…because a war for control of the ultimate magical artifact – the bones of Master Darque his old arch-nemesis – is about to erupt out of the underground & into the harsh view of day! On one side The Brethren a society of wealthy & powerful occultists obsessed with Darque’s resurrection & ushering in a millennia-long reign of darkness On the other Shadowman’s old allies from The Abettors…and Darque’s own sister Sandria who would like nothing more than to grind her brother’s bones to dust… The endless cycle of death & rebirth stops here as Shadowman & the Darque clan usher in the reckoning they’ve waited ten lifetimes to achieve – with massive repercussions for the future of the Valiant Universe – as renowned writer Andy Diggle (Green Arrow Year One) & high-octane artist Renato Guedes (Action Comics) return to heed the call of “RAG & BONE”! Collecting SHADOWMAN (2018) 8–11 About the Author Andy Diggle&s comics career began somewhat inauspiciously running the comics section of the Sherratt & Hughes bookshop in Croydon His university dissertation on comics technique led to him teaching an undergraduate course on Graphic Narrative the following year He became the editor of seminal British sci-fi comic 2000 AD in the year 2000 before moving on to become a full-time writer