Scout Montana has always wanted to be a superhero . So when she all of a sudden gains superpowers , she eagerly deal to the streets to dispense her own brand of Department of Justice . But a city plagued by water shortage , homelessness , and inert cop need something more than a mere vigilante .
Ross Campbell’sShadoweyesis lay out in the metropolis of Dranac , a city on an substitute Earth that lives in the ashes of a premature culture and is being prevail together by tongue and Leslie Townes Hope — and hope is in short supplying . Scout is a teenage girl with a strong good sense of societal justice and a permanently fixed frown , as if cracking a grin might make her complicit in all the evilness in the globe . She has try out to save the world in her own small means — by stick to a vegan dieting , by joining an illegal neighbourhood vigilante mathematical group — but she sense that it ’s not enough . She wants to be a superhero , a symbolisation for the downtrodden of Dranac . She wants to salvage her metropolis .
Scout ’s first solo crimefighting attempt does n’t go well , however , and she ends up taking a brick to the psyche . When she wakes , she discovers that she is abruptly able to shapeshift into an nimble , superstrong , and strangely endearing grim creature . At first , Scout is delighted , espouse her new identity as Shadoweyes and scrapping with anyone she sees as evil .
But despite this notional premiss , Shadoweyes is grounded in a kind of realism . The problems in Dranac are systemic , and not easily solved by fists and fangs . The urban center is grimy , down , and dangerous ; it ’s a place where people should n’t walk alone at nighttime . It ’s also a place where people have to live , and everyone deals with living in Dranac in their own way . Scout ’s friend Kyisha volunteers at the local shelter and was content to police with the other vigilantes until Scout became Shadoweyes . Sparkle , a bubbly classmate , face everything with an optimism that belie her own personal catastrophe . And Scout ’s warm mother concenter in on her own minor family social unit , able to shut out the evil of the outside world as long as her daughter is felicitous . There are also people just as angry as Scout , and just as ready to take law and ordering into their own hand .
While Scout may have a strong abstract sense of justice , she ’s not very clear on how to utilise it in a hardheaded way . As far as we bang , there is not cartoonish villain whose licking means in force days forward . watch may be able to save the mean solar day , to save a life , but she ca n’t save her domain — at least not yet .
Amidst Scout ’s navel - stare and her discourse with others about her new identity ( Is she still a human being ? Still a girl ? ) , Campbell has planted some cue as to the more nefarious going - on in Dranac , hints of a orotund problem that Shadoweyes ca n’t yet see . There is something rotten in Dranac , and she needs to become a in effect hoagy — whether or not she ’s first-rate — to comprehend it . And while Scout ’s dream was to become a solo superhero , Shadoweyes may find out that the only way to lay aside Dranac is to team up with her fellow citizens . This may be a urban center that ask to save itself .
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