By
Andy Frisk
October 27, 2014 - 17:05
Peter Milligan, long term Hellblazer scribe, likes to write about London punk magicians doesn't he? He seems to still be looking for his own creation to get some traction to eh? Shade the Changing Man showed up in the early pages of the New 52's Justice League Dark, and quickly went straight back into obscurity. So as they say, try, try, again...
Don't take my sarcasm the wrong way. I really do like the majority of Peter Milligan's work. Greek Street was aborted way too soon by Vertigo. It's just that when Punk Mambo showed up in the pages of Valiant 2.0's Shadowman series, it was a letdown. Milligan is smarter than than this. It's just too incongruous for a younger, female, more cockney and punk version of John Constantine to pop up out of nowhere in the middle of a New Orleans swamp and start slinging the voodoo with The Shadowman. From any other writer it might have been an interesting, albeit still incongruous, move, but from Milligan it feels like a "been there done that" and "stick with what you know" cop out of a character. Well, at least she and Milligan are getting their own mini-series out of the deal...since that is what Valiant is seeming to do with their characters now...so much for the "ongoing."
See the full press release from Valiant Entertainment below:
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