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American Gods Volume 1

American Gods Volume 1

Shadows
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FantasyGraphic Novels
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Shadow Moon, an ex-convict, finds himself drawn into a hidden world of ancient gods and mythical beings after his release from prison. Hired as a bodyguard by the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday, Shadow travels across America, discovering that the old gods are losing power to new deities of technology and media. He becomes entangled in a brewing war between these divine factions, forcing him to confront his own beliefs and the true nature of reality.

Prose complexity
7/10

Collected in

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Book cover of The Complete American Gods
The Complete American Gods

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Genres

Fantasy Graphic Novels Mythology Urban Fantasy

Authors

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Colleen Doran

American writer/artist, film conceptual artist, and cartoonist

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire) is an English writer of novels, short fiction, comics, screenplays and audio drama. He worked as a journalist before moving into comics, where his DC series The Sandman, begun in 1989, recast the title character as Morpheus, lord of dreams, and became one of the most acclaimed comics of its era. His novels include Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett, as well as Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline and The Oc...

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P. Craig Russell

American comics artist, writer and illustrator, born October 30, 1951, in Wellsville, Ohio. He entered the comics industry in 1972 as an assistant to artist Dan Adkins, and first drew wide notice for his run on Killraven with writer Don McGregor. Russell became known as a pioneering adapter of classical and literary source material into comics form, rendering operas by Mozart, Strauss and Wagner (including his own The Ring of the Nibelung), Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, and, with Neil Gaiman, graph...