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Stanislav Belkovsky

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Stanislav Alexandrovich Belkovsky (Russian: ????????? ????????????? ??????????) (born 7 february 1971, Moscova, USSR) is a Russian political analyst and communication specialist. A political conservative, he is said to be very close to Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky. He is a founder and director of the National Strategy Institute and of the communication company Politech.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Views and allegations
  • 3 The term “Puting”
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

Biography

In 2002 he founded a non-profit organization The Council for National Strategy. In 2003 the Council published a series of reports: “State and oligarchy” (June 9), “New Vertical of Power” (September 22). The publication of the former report, which inter alia alleged the ongoing preparations by Russia’s oligarchs for a coup d’état, closely foreshadowed the start of the criminal prosecution against Yukos and its top managers. The report specifically mentioned Mikhail Khodorkovsky as one of the alleged conspirators.

Since 2004 Belkovsky has been head of the National Strategy Institute, which is a think-tank of several Russian political scientists and analysts.

Views and allegations

During president Putin’s second term in power, amidst the heated debate in Russia about Putin’s further intentions, Belkovsky was of the opinion that Putin would relinquish political power altogether, and assume a post designed simply to guarantee his personal security and wealth.

Die Welt published his sensational allegations about Putin’s personal wealth: Putin “controls a 4.5% stake in Gazprom, 37% in Surgutneftegaz” as well as 50% in the oil-trading company Gunvor, which is run by his close friend Gennady Timchenko.

However, some commentators questioned the true motives behind the statements of Stanislav Belkovsky since he has been actively engaged in a campaign to discredit Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They even went so far as suggest that he made the disclosure about Putin’s alleged wealth to convince Putin that he must remain in power and protect his alleged personal wealth..

The term “Puting”

Belkovsky is said to have authored the journalistic cliché “Puting” (??????), derived from the name of Russia’s president since 2000 Vladimir Putin, to denote the process of renationalisation of Russia’s oil industry assets..

References

  1. ^ ????? ?? «????» — ????? ? ?????????? ?????? ???????????? ????????? // Radio Liberty July 30, 2003
  2. ^ Jonas Bernstein (November 19, 2007). “STANISLAV BELKOVSKY: PUTIN WILL LEAVE POWER COMPLETELY” (in English). The Jamestown Foundation. http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372600. Retrieved on 2007-12-06. 
  3. ^ Quiring, Von Manfred (12 November 2007). “Warum Putin gar nicht Präsident bleiben will”. Die Welt. http://www.welt.de/politik/article1352592/Warum_Putin_gar_nicht_Praesident_bleiben_will.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-04. 
  4. ^ To enemies of Russia, commentary of Andrey Piontkovsky
  5. ^ ????????? ?????????? - ??????? ????? ?? ?????? ????????? // ??????? ??????… ????? ?????????… ? ?????????? ??? ?? ????????
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Venography

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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Venography (also called phlebography) is a procedure in which an x-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins. It is the Gold standard for diagnosing acute deep venous thrombosis although its use has been largely supplanted by the less invasive duplex ultrasonography. Venography can also be used to distinguish blood clots from obstructions in the veins, to evaluate congenital vein problems, to see how the deep leg vein valves are working, or to identify a vein for arterial bypass grafting.

Areas of the venous system performed include lower extremities, Inferior vena cava, upper extremities.

See also

  • Vein
  • Deep vein thrombosis

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Alphonse Beni

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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Alphonse Beni is a Cameroonian actor and movie director, sometimes credited as Alfons Beny or Chris Kelly. He made several author movies in Cameroon, acted in French erotic comedies and even played a ninja in Godfrey Ho’s “ninja” flick, Ninja: Silent Assassin.

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Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sports Centre

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Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sports Centre

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Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sports Centre (Simplified Chinese: ????????) is a football stadium in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, China. This stadium completed in October 11, 1998. It holds 15,000 people. And this stadium is the home for Hangzhou Sanchao.

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Coordinates: 30°09?21?N 120°15?44?E? / ?30.15587°N 120.262093°E? / 30.15587; 120.262093

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Shakili Alasgar

Thursday, April 30th, 2009


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Shakili Alasgar (Azerbaijani: ??kili ?l?sg?r), born Alasgar Abdullayev (1866, Shaki – 1929, Baku) was an Azerbaijani folk musician and mugham singer.

Life and career

Alasgar Abdullayev was born to a poor family in Shaki (hence his pseudonym, which literally means “Alasgar of Shaki”). At his early age he worked as a mason in his hometown. He soon started studying mugham (classical music of Azerbaijan that is usually a suite with poetry and instrumental interludes) with a particular emphasis on its Bayati-Shiraz and Segah varieties. At this early stage, he often performed at weddings and parties along with his instructor.

He gave his first concert in Baku in January 1902. The concert given by him the following year gained him great fame. In 1912 he performed Bayati-Shiraz in Warsaw, where a vinyl recording of his performance was made, the first ever for Azerbaijani folk music. Another vinyl record was produced in 1914 during Shakili Alasgar’s concert in Tiflis.

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Manolito Gafotas

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Manolito Gafotas is a group of children’s novels by the Spanish writer Elvira Lindo. They tell the adventures of a working class kid in Carabanchel. These novels inspired two movies in 1999 and 2004 and a TV series.

Books

  • Manolito Gafotas (1994)
  • ¡Cómo molo!: (otra de Manolito Gafotas) (1995)
  • Pobre Manolito (1996)
  • Los trapos sucios de Manolito Gafotas (1997)
  • Manolito on the road (1998)
  • Yo y el Imbécil (1999)
  • Manolito tiene un secreto (2002)

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Galad Damodred

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Lord Galadedrid of House Damodred, called “Galad” for short, is a fictional character in the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.

He is the son of Tigraine Mantear, fathered by Taringail Damodred, and half-brother to Elayne and Gawyn Trakand through his father. He is also (though he does not know it) Rand al’Thor’s half-brother through his mother. His sign is a winged silver sword, point-down. He is known for his virtuous nature, and sometimes despised for it, as he “always does the right thing, with no regard for who it hurts.” His physical beauty is also often commented on by several characters.

He and his brother Gawyn trained with Warders at Tar Valon; of the two, Galad was accounted the better swordsman, though both were excellent and (as of the series’ penultimate novel, Knife of Dreams) had become blademasters by defeating an acknowledged blademaster in combat. During The Fires of Heaven, he is found to have joined the Children of the Light, where he was quickly promoted due to his skill with a sword and zeal for righteousness. Having said that, Gawyn believes that Galad joined the Whitecloaks partly because he wanted to find Egwene al’Vere, with whom they are both besotted. As a Whitecloak, he was of service to his half-sister Elayne and her traveling companion Nynaeve al’Meara, taking action to secure a boat for their escape; however, this action was to seize the boat under the auspices of the Children, sparking an all-out riot which, in Elayne’s opinion, would inevitably engulf the entire nation of Ghealdan in war. He did this purely to facilitate Nynaeve’s and Elayne’s escape, which he considered to be the right thing to do.

Galad is not present again in the series’ narrative until the novel Knife of Dreams. Upon hearing that Eamon Valda, the Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light, had assaulted and killed his stepmother Morgase Trakand, he rides with several supporters to the Whitecloaks’ new headquarters where he challenges Valda to “Trial Under the Light”, a trial by combat duel to the death. Galad wins, and, by Whitecloak custom, inherits the defeated person’s possessions; in Galad’s case, he took up Valda’s heron-mark sword and title of blademaster, as well as the office of Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light. The Children divide over this turn of events, and roughly 7,000 Children ride north with Galad towards Tarmon Gai’don.

It may be that Galad has a future relationship with Berelain, as Min Farshaw’s viewings relating to her are, “Just a man in white who will make her fall head over heels” (LoC,Ch50) as well as another viewing of two beautiful people falling in love with each other.

His name is similar to the Galahad of Arthurian legend.

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Categories: Wheel of Time characters

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Weak

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The word weak is a generic adjective pertaining to a general state of feebleness, a lack of strength, durability or vigor

Weak is the opposite of strong. It may refer to:

Contents

  • 1 Computing
  • 2 Music
  • 3 Science
  • 4 Miscellaneous

Computing

In concurrent programming refers to weaker consistency models.

  • A weak entity is a database entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone.
  • A weak reference is a reference that does not protect the referent object from collection by the garbage collector.
  • A weak symbol is a symbol definition in an object file or dynamic library that may be overridden by other symbol definitions.

Music

  • “Weak” (SWV song), a song by SWV
  • “Weak” (Skunk Anansie song), a song by Skunk Anansie

Science

  • Weak nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature
  • Weak convergence (Hilbert space) of a sequence in a Hilbert space
  • Weak derivative defined on Sobolev spaces
  • Weak topology of functional analysis:
    • Weak topology (polar topology)
    • Weak operator topology
    • Weak-star topology

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Churston railway station

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Churston
Location
Place Churston Ferrers
Area Torbay, Devon
Coordinates 50°23?46?N 3°33?24?W? / ?50.39598°N 3.55677°W? / 50.39598; -3.55677Coordinates: 50°23?46?N 3°33?24?W? / ?50.39598°N 3.55677°W? / 50.39598; -3.55677
Operations
Original company Dartmouth and Torbay Railway
Pre-grouping South Devon Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Operated by Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway
History
1861 Opened (as Brixham Road)
1868 Brixham branch opened
1972 Preserved
Heritage railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Churston railway station is on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, a heritage railway in Torbay, Devon, England. It is on the main road to Brixham and close to the villages of Galmpton and Churston Ferrers.

Contents

  • 1 History
    • 1.1 Before preservation
    • 1.2 In preservation
  • 2 Description
  • 3 Cultural references
  • 4 Services
  • 5 References
  • 6 Further reading

History

Before preservation

The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway from Paignton railway station to Churston was opened for passengers on 14 March 1861 and for goods traffic on 1 April 1861. The station was known as Brixham Road at the time, and the line was extended to Kingswear railway station on 16 August 1864. The initial single platform was supplemented by a second in 1865. The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway was always operated by the South Devon Railway Company and was amalgamated with it on 1 January 1872. This was only short lived as it was in turn amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1876.

In the meantime the station had changed its name to Churston when an independent branch line had been opened by the Torbay and Brixham Railway to serve the latter town on 28 February 1868 .. The station was now a junction but the goods shed had to be moved to a new site alongside the Brixham line to make room for a short bay platform to accommodate the Brixham trains. Sidings were added to allow for the goods traffic handled on the branch, including a busy trade in fish. The Torbay & Brixham Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1883.

The lines had been built using the 7 ft 0¼ in (2,140 mm) broad gauge, but on 21 May 1892 were closed for the weekend to be converted to 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The following year saw the platforms lengthened and a new signal box constructed. The platforms were further lengthened and a new signal box opened on 9 February 1913 to control the now extended crossing loop.

The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. The Brixham branch closed on 13 May 1963, but the Kingswear service continued but Sunday trains no longer called at Churston after the 1967 summer season. General freight traffic was withdrawn on 14 June 1965 although coal was still handled until 4 December 1967. The crossing loop was taken out of use on 20 October 1968 and the signal box closed.

In preservation

The line was sold to the Dart Valley Railway on 30 December 1972, which operated another nearby railway at Buckfastleigh. Since then Churston has become an important centre for engineering on the railway.

The signal box was reopened in 1979 to control a new crossing loop, albeit with electric multiple-aspect signals, and the following year the former Brixham bay platform was relaid. In 1981 the turntable from Goodrington was moved to a position alongside the Brixham junction at Churston. The signal box was closed again in 1991 when control of the whole line was transferred to Britannia Crossing at Kingswear. A locomotive workshop was built behind the Up (towards Paignton) platform in 1993 and the station building restored and reopened. The Brixham bay platform was then covered by a carriage workshop in 1996.

Description

The main entrance is onto the platform mainly used by trains towards Kingswear. Signalling allows trains to use this in both directions but in practice trains towards Paignton depart from the opposite platform, which is reached by a footbridge. The station buildings are built of solid masonry with a large canopy integral wit the roof. The local paper described them on the opening day “as unarchitectural as any Goth could wish”.

Alongside the main platform, at the Paignton end, a modern workshop stands on the site of the platform once used by Brixham trains; this is used for carriage repairs. On the same side, beyond the modern bridge carrying the road to Brixham, are some sidings and the turntable. Opposite the carriage workshop, behind the Paignton platform, is another workshop which is used for heavy repairs to locomotives.

The former Railway Hotel at the end of the station approach road is now a pub known as The White Horse but is still welcoming to railway passengers and enthusiasts.

Cultural references

Churston station was the location for the opening scene in The System, a 1964 film. Several of the main characters arrive at the last minute and jump onto a Diesel Multiple Unit that is just pulling out towards Kingswear. After the opening credits, they then get off a different train at Brixham.

Services

A seasonal service of steam hauled trains operates between Paignton and Kingswear.

Preceding station Heritage Railways  Heritage railways Following station
Goodrington Sands   Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway   Kingswear

References

  1. ^ Potts, C R (1998). The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway (1844 - 1988). Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-853613-87-7. 
  2. ^ Potts, CR (1987). The Brixham Branch. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-853615-56-X. 
  3. ^ Oakley, Mike (2007). Devon Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-55-6. 
  4. ^ Western Morning News, 15 March 1861, quoted in Potts (1998)

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Shadowman (comics)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Shadowman is a fictional comic book character from Valiant Comics who first appeared in May of 1992. He was created by Steve Englehart and David Lapham. Shadowman made his first appearance in X-O Manowar #4. Jack Boniface can be seen playing sax in the foreground when Aric Dacia and Toyo Harada enter a bar. This appearance sent collectors into a frenzy making this book very popular. His first appearance in costume is the cover of Shadowman #1.

Shadowman continued strongly with sales of 300,000 books a month until 1996 when Acclaim Entertainment, which bought Valiant for $65 million, started a new series under the Acclaim Comics banner.

The second series (spelled Shadow Man) was not quite as popular and featured the Shadowman from the video game franchise which Acclaim produced. The second series stopped in 2002, when Acclaim shut down its comic book publishing division in anticipation of a bankruptcy filing after suffering heavy losses. Valiant Entertainment are the current owners of the Valiant catalog.

Shadowman has had his likeness transferred to many other mediums including trading cards, posters and a best selling video game franchise. The first Shadowman video game has sold more than two million units to date.

Contents

  • 1 Valiant Comics
  • 2 Acclaim Comics
  • 3 Video games
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

Valiant Comics

The VALIANT comic book starred Jack Boniface as a jazz-playing voodoo-themed superhero from New Orleans. Jack was bitten by a voodoo creature of the night who posed as a woman named Lydia. The bite somehow altered Jack’s body chemistry. During the night, he became more aggressive and restless. Feeling the urge to hunt “demons”, the criminals who preyed on the innocent, he adopted a costumed identity of Shadowman. At first we are unsure if he has any powers, and his battles with the evils of the night are enhanced by the fact that he is seemingly normal if slightly crazy. As the series progressed we learn that he in fact gained enhanced strength and reflexes.

During the Unity crossover, Shadowman fell in love with Elya, a pterodactyl pilot from 4001 A.D. During their time together, she revealed that Jack would die in 1999. This discovery proved to be something of a double-edged sword for the character. The knowledge that he could not die until that date gave him confidence and determination to overcome seemingly impossible odds. On the other hand, it led Shadowman to take incredible risks.

During the day Jack does not feel the urge to hunt evil but his escapades at night don’t always wrap up by morning. On more than one occasion during the day he has been forced to ask himself “What would Shadowman do?”. Of course, he is Shadowman but during the day his aggressive nature and devil may care attitude are much less pronounced.

When Jack has the day to himself he still finds his Shadowman persona interrupting his life. The bruises from his fights and his lack of sleep prevent him from achieving his goal of becoming a famous jazz musician and hinder his relationships. He must also deal with the fact that he is wasting the remaining years of his life (which will end in 1999) fighting evil. But when night comes the urge always proves too strong.

Steven J. Massarsky, one of the original co-owners of Voyager Communications, the parent company of Valiant Comics had strong connections to the music industry (for a time he managed the Allman Brothers Band among others) and used these connections to convince popular musicians to appear in Valiant Comics. Among these musicians was Aerosmith who guest starred in Shadowman #19. In the book, Master Darque creates a voodoo doll of Steven Tyler and trades Jack Boniface (Shadowman) Tyler’s soul for an as yet unnamed favor.

Series Creative Staff Information (Volume one): The following is a list of those who contributed to the creation of the series. When repeated, only last names will be used.

0: (note-this issue was released after the series had begun) Bob Hall, writer & pencils/Tom Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

1: Jim Shooter & Steve Englehart, writers/David Lapham, pencils/Joe Rubenstien, inks/Lapham & Bob Layton, cover.

2: Shooter & Faye Perozich, writers/Lapham, pencils/Ryder, inks/Lapham & Ryder, cover.

3: Perozich, writer/Mark Moretti, pencils/Charles Barnett III, inks/Lapham & Ryder, cover.

4: Shooter & Lapham, story/Shooter & Perozich, script/Lapham, pencils/Ryder, inks/Frank Miller, cover.

5: Shooter & Lapham, story/Shooter & Layton, script/Lapham, pencils/Paul Autio, inks/Walter Simonson, cover.

6: Shooter & Moretti & Steve Ditko & Don Perlin, story/Hall, script/Ditko, pencils & cover/Gonzalo Mayo, inks.

7: Hall, writer/Jose Delbo & Perlin, pencils/John Dixon, inks/Perlin & Stan Drake, cover.

8: Hall, writer/Yvel Guichet, pencils/Dixon, inks/Guichet & Layton, cover.

9: Joe St. Pierre, writer and pencils/Dixon, inks/Layton & St. Pierre, cover.

10: Hall, writer & pencils & cover/Dixon, inks.

11: Hall, writer & pencils/Tom Mandrake, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

12: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

13: Jorge Gonzalez, writer/Guichet, pencils/Dixon, inks/Guichet & Randy Elliot, cover.

14: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Dixon, cover.

15: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

16: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Dixon, cover.

17-18: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Bob Wiacek, cover.

19: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

20: Perlin, writer/Mel Rubi, pencils/Autio, inks & cover.

21-23: Hall, writer & pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

24: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

25: Anthony J. Bedard, writer/Rags Morales, pencils & cover/Elliot, inks.

26-28: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

29: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Layton, cover.

30-32: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

33: Hall, writer & pencils & cover/Ryder, inks.

34: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

35-36: Mike Baron, writer/Robert Hand, pencils/Dixon, inks/Hall, cover.

37: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

38: Hall, writer & pencils & cover/Ryder, inks.

39-42: Hall, writer & pencils/Ryder, inks/Hall & Ryder, cover.

43: Hall, writer & art.

Acclaim Comics

The reimagining of Shadowman in the Acclaim universe, also known as Shadowman V2 made some drastic changes to the Shadowman universe. The first four issues called “Deadside”, which were written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Ashley Wood set a much darker tone to the series and moved it away from sci-fi to a more Voodoo magic/mystical setting with horror elements. But that would change however, as other writers and artists progressed the story, somewhat disrupting the story line and the vision Ennis had for Shadowman, which was that of a zombie hitman. Therefore there are many inconsistencies between issues 1–4, issues 5–15 and issues 16–20, with the last issue ending in a cliffhanger.

The Deadside story arc starts with an autopsy of mutilated body of Jack Boniface, who (as we later find out) was sadistically and somewhat humorously butchered by four dead men who have somehow escaped from Deadside. From this we know that Jack Boniface didn’t die from jumping off of a skyscraper like it was speculated in the last Shadowman issue in the original comic. Nettie too has been injured by the dead men, she was barely able to escape death, but was reduced to a skeleton, forced to stay alive by using voodoo. Nettie also stars as a much more menacing and manipulative character, not to mention her newfound distinguishing accent. As the story progresses we are introduced to Jaunty, an Irish skullheaded serpent wearing a top hat, who is Nettie’s eyes and ears in Deadside. We are also introduced to Zero, a black man who works as a hitman for a local barman and struggles with the fact that he doesn’t remember his past; excluding five years after his awakening from a coma and running away from a hospital. All Zero has left after his awakening is a tattered teddy bear and a seemingly inborn knowledge of killing. Once the new characters have been introduced and old ones reintroduced. The story centers itself on Zero and his unwilling yet unavoidable fate of becoming the next and true Shadowman, as well as rediscovering his past and Nettie’s connection to him. Not to mention the four dead men on the loose wreaking havoc.

New to the series is the concept of Deadside, a place where everyone goes when one dies. which would be later fully explored in the video games. Deadside plays a big role since after becoming the Shadowman, Zero (or Michael LeRoi as we find out) when mortally wounded has the ability to return from the dead (Deadside) and therefore cannot be killed, unlike the Shadowmen before him.

The first issue of Volume 2 was released on March 1997 and ran for 20 issues before being succeeded by Volume 3, with final issue being released on October 1998.

Volume 3 sees Shadow Man going back to his roots of the first four issues but more so because of the release of the Shadow Man the game.

Volume 3 saw the release of only 6 issues, with the last issue being published on December 1999.

Creative Staff Information: The following is a list of those who contributed to the creation of the series. When repeated, only last names will be used.

Volume 2:

1-4: Garth Ennis, writer/Ashley Wood, art and cover.

5-13: Jamie Delano, writer/Charles Adlard, art/Wood, covers

14-15: Delano and Dick Foreman, writers/Adlard, art/Wood, covers.

16-18: Serge Clermont, writer/Klayton Krain, pencils and covers/Temujin, inks

19-20: Clermont, writer/Krain, pencils and covers/Charles Yoakum, inks

Volume 3:

1-2: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, Writers/Matt Broome & Ryan Benjamin, pencils/Sean Parsons, inks

3: Abnett and Lanning, writers/Criss Cross, pencils/Don Hillsman, inks

4: Abnett and Lanning, writers/Benjamin, pencils/Sal Regla, inks

5-6: Abnett and Lanning, writers/Broome, pencils/Regla, inks.

Video games

Main articles: Shadow Man (video game) and Shadow Man: 2econd Coming

Acclaim released the Shadow Man video game in November 1999 on the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and PC. A sequel, entitled Shadow Man: 2econd Coming was released for PlayStation 2 in 2002, following the events after the destruction of the Cathedral of Pain. The events of the first game were loosely adapted into a single issue of Shadow Man volume 3. The comics ceased publication shortly after. Note that the comics and the games seem to be set in separate continuities.

References

  1. ^ http://www.steveenglehart.com/Comics/Shadowman%201-2.html
  2. ^ Wizard magazine #15, 1995
  3. ^ “VALIANT Days, VALIANT Nights - A Look Back at the Rise and Fall of VALIANT

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