Story by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell. Art by P. Craig Russell, Scott Hampton. Cover by Glenn Fabry.
Ashcan edition. Ashcan sized. Shadow Moon just got out of jail, only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain as to where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard...thrusting Shadow into a deadly world of the supernatural, where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a brewing war between old and new gods hits a boiling point.