Moonshadow: The Definitive Edition--Expanded

“It’s lovely. It makes you feel better about comics.”—Frank Miller

“Beautiful, original, haunting.”—Ray Bradbury

“A spectral literate tone-poem.”—New York Daily News

“Equal parts absurdist and romantic, Moonshadow is a comic about the big questions. Themes like greed, war, morality, and ethics are all touched upon in this book. With the core of the series fixed on the question, “How should we live our lives in a seemingly random universe?” The book doesn’t try to provide an answer either. It doesn’t shy away from fact that there can be no true conclusion to this question. Nor does it give our hero a rose-tinted outlook from beginning to end.”—ComicBastards.com

“Evokes Lewis Carroll and William Blake. Muth’s painted illustrations…are a delicate blend of cartooning and fine art, perfectly meshed with DeMatteis’s poetic storytelling. The amount of talent which goes into every issue of Moonshadow would keep some entire comic companies going for a year.”—Graffiti Magazine

“…a real miracle of the modern comic book world, a poetic violent, bawdy, satiric, and deeply heartfelt fable of human enlightenment.”—Amazing Heroes

“An oddity…the unlikely story of the child of a spherical alien being and a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn. For mature audiences with literary and esthetic tastes beyond the Batman and Robin level.”—The Woodstock Times

“Call it a comic book. I’m not sure that’s what it is, but call it that and call it wonderful—full of greatness, wisdom, wit, adventure, awe of and reverence for life and the universe. I could make comparisons—to Vonnegut, Keillor, Bradbury and Cordwainer Smith, among others—but really Moonshadow is sui generis. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Dennis O’Neil

“Not just literate, Moonshadow aims to transcend all commercial publishing boundaries and strikes freely into the realm of high literature. A tour de force of layered storytelling and language…Moonshadow is that rich kind of book that can be dipped into over and over again, to reread individual scenes or to start again from the beginning.”—Science Fiction Age

“This is an outstanding graphic tale, told at a level of literary and visual sophistication which introduced new standards and aspirations to the genre. Because of its originality of vision it frequently transcends genre altogether. It is idiosyncratic, it isn’t afraid or big ideas or of stretching for a goal. It’s intelligent, humane, occasionally wise…a unique and absorbing imaginative experience…”—Michael Moorcock

“A stirring saga of the human condition.”—R.A. Jones, Amazing Heroes

“Someone (and for the life of me, I can’t remember who!) once said that whatever story you’re working on should be written as if it’s the only one you’ll ever tell—pouring all your thoughts, feelings, ideas, ideals, passions, philosophies, hopes and dreams...every iota of ‘Who You Are’...into it.  That’s what I did with Moonshadow.”—J.M. DeMatteis

“This was not conscious on any level but since the story is about the journey from innocence to experience, I tapped into things that I identified with early in life like Dr. Seuss and Peter Pan.”—Jon J Muth