Keith Giffen's Images of Shadowhawk - the BEST Shadowhawk!

[@nicolasorizaga5040]

Blackball Comics was supposed to have Simon Bisley’s Blitz The Manic Mandrill, Bill Wray’s Big Blown Baby, Kevin O’Neill’s Marshall Law, Michael T. Gilbert’s Mr. Monster, Mark Wheatley’s Radical Dreamer but I think the publisher folded after two books. Keith Giffen also wrote SuperPatriot and Freak Force for Image.

[@1971thedoctor]

Giffen is definitely one guy I would buy back in the 90s if he did the artwork, I just like how different his art style was compared to everyone else.

[@ADistantImage]

I wish so much that he had stuck with this style. It was so original and drew me in like you wouldn't believe as a young teen. I wish there were an omni worth of this material

[@peybak]

Keith Giffen's art is so much fun in this and the Trencher. Jagged and abstract. I really dug those when I saw them back in the day. Still love it.

[@LordProng123]

I love Keith Giffen's art style, particularly this really abstract version. First came across Giffen when he worked on the Doctor Fate limited series back in the 1980's. Completely blew my mind! Nothing today even compares 👍

[@randywhitehair5403]

I was a teen in the 90s, and I was starting to make my way to comics shops & discovering some of the more intelligent comics; but Giffen was one of the creators whose mainstream stuff was quality. As a writer and an artist he always seemed to care about the fans not being disappointed or regretful in buying his work. He reminds me of Byrne a lot in that he was so ubiquitous that you almost took him for granted. Plus I'll add, he's one of only two writers (Alan Grant being the other) who could properly write Lobo's dialogue. Anyone else that tried it just seemed off.

[@EmCeeArtist47]

The last few issues of The Heckler for DC is where Keith started with this style suddenly I want to say issue 3 but it’s mid issue as well. I figured much gut like to know. Liking the show btw.

[@sark3153]

I forgot all about the heckler books, I was thinking he started this style with the lobo infanticide run

[@eelliott74]

Yes! We need more Keith Giffen!

[@NailsOeltjen]

I LOVED this when it came out! It was a revelation, and so much fun. I also collected the Trencher series. I wanted to see more of this style too. It just had an energy that I hadn’t seen since Bisley on Lobo or McFarlane on Spider-Man.

[@bobhoskins-kl6ue]

After I read Ambush Bug any Giffen book became an atuo-buy for me

[@patrickrobles1036]

It’s been a minute but I *think* that blacked-out face possession gimmick was used in Giffen’s run on Justice in the New Universe.

[@trencher7]

By far the best Shadowhawk. Love that negative space cover too.

[@Pork_Hunt]

Keith moved away from this style due to the previous controversy Mark Burbey brought up in The Comics Journal about him swiping José Muñoz got brought up again (disappointing as it was obvious he wasn't tracing off but vibing off the style). As for Shadowhawk's costume being chrome, it wouldn't always be standing out. That is, chrome only lights up based on reflection of what is around it. So in shadows it would just reflect the shadow, only reflecting street lights or the full moon if they're in its line of sight. So a pretty smart costume material, IMO.

[@mariod1547]

I thought it was this style too until i read an interview of him. It seems it was his work sometime in the 80's that was controversial and based on Munoz. He admitted he was obsessed with Munoz work during that time but that he never traced any of it. In the interview he says Trencer is the first time he didn't feel influenced and was totally experimenting.

[@GoldenChiild]

Love Keith Giffen and all his different styles. Please do an episode on his DC graphic novel Hell on Earth , great trippy art from his Jose Munoz period.

[@TeuvoHeikkila]

LOVE this book! fantastic art!

[@bujilou]

That BBC Knightfall audiobook is severely underrated

[@evanlindsey1100]

Some of the art on this screamed Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns era artstyle. (especially the early hospital page).

[@samaxamen]

This style is fucking genius. I was SO into it. LOL

[@samaxamen]

Absolutely THEE BEST Shadowhawk!

[@FelipeAlejandroVasquezOlea]

Giffen is always a treat. You guys should check out his work on the doctor fate miniseries from 1987 with j.m. dematteis. Great stuff.

[@mrtchadd]

Found these in a box of comics I was given as a kid. I thought "what the fuck am I looking at?" But I sure looked at them a lot.

[@jesuscisneros9542]

More Shadowhawk please !! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@soul.alone.8745]

The question is, which character became Image's Lobo? Trencher? Bloodwulf? Savage Dragon?

[@GulonRax]

You should check out Carl Critchlow's artwork in the 2000ad strip featuring the character Lobster Random. Very Giffen influenced.

[@metalheadbob]

Keith Giffen still alive! Simon Bisley still alive! Why cant we get a new LOBO book?

[@foxsolid]

So cool

[@gbeeler2]

Tribe #3 came out on the AXIS COMICS imprint and issues #0 from GOOD COMICS (Never seen this one). Beasties was also on AXIS COMICS.

[@4-a-e]

A million? Woah. In sequent art documentary on image lifted talks about how would crash his sports car and then just buy another one.

[@jessbob2922]

Shadowhawk = Earthworm Jim

[@spiderphil]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@tentsio]

I wonder if giffen was influenced by european and/or argentinian authors. I remember that I liked a lot this style, but I was used to read european magazines since the 80s where radical styles, experimentation and abstraction was not so uncommon.

[@ALbertoDoriguzzi]

Uhm I don't know but I think Shadow Hawk's face is a mask, really..? On a panel there are some kind of a borders below the eyes, like mask's holes.

[@ALbertoDoriguzzi]

Btw I love it, unhappy I've not bought it when I could have 🙆

[@thomasschmidt7649]

While an interesting exercise in drawing technique, without the color though, most of these panels would be an incoherent mess of lines.