Monsters and Gods
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Script and Layout: P Craig Russell
Art: Scott Hampton and Lovern Kindzierski and Rick Parker
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Review by: Jeremy Daw
First published in 2001, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is long overdue for a comic adaptation. Presumably spurred by the imminent appearance of a TV adaptation, Dark Horse has decided to release an adaptation across 27 issues constituting 3 distinct story arcs with veteran comics creator P Craig Russell as adapter and co-writer and with Scott Hampton (and, briefly, Lovern Kindzierski) on art. So, does the first issue of American Gods: Shadows succeed in hooking this comics reader (who hasn’t read the novel!)? Let’s find out…