Steve Saylor enters the world of free serialized audiobooks with the release of his book, Black Shadow:
In a world where evil walks the earth, where super villains are taken over by demonic beings . They all want one thing, and one thing only. To take over the world. There is only one man who can stop them. One man with the powers and abilities to kick some serious demon ass. In a race against time to stop a portal that opens to Hell itself. One man, one hero, one sonofabitch you don’t want to mess with.
He is faceless,
He is fearless,
He is… Black Shadow.
From the mind of debut podiobook author Steve Saylor comes a story where the super powers meets the Supernatural.
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January 17th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I liked it keep going and great sound effects
January 21st, 2008 at 8:46 am
I’m not much into comic book stories, but this reminds me of the Marvel Comics movies that have come out in the last few years so I thought I’d take a chance on it.
So far I like the plot, even though the characters are a little genre cliche. Black shadow’s background sounds a little similar to DareDevil, probably because that’s the only real exposure I’ve had to the genre, that and the Batman movies.
The only thing I really have to get used to is the character voices. I haven’t had someone “do the voices” to characters since I was little and it’s worse I think since I’ve never listened to a podcast with comics as main “performers”.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Awesome podiobook so far. The voice work is great, neat sound effects and good music. I’m hooked!
June 9th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Hey Steve whats , happening , last eposide was nearly 5 weeks ago ? Have already finished White Trash Land and I’ve started on Jack Palms 3.
Hope everything is OK , good podcast and very techinical sound and audio effects . Good work and a fun listen .
Cheers,
James
June 13th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Love the story, but it’s been weeks since the last episode. What’s going on?
June 13th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I don’t know why the last episode has not been put up on PB, but it has been on the authors web site since 5/5/08. Maybe we’ve been blown off. Bummer.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I’ve asked Steve to put a note. I talked to him on twitter and the issue appears to be a problem with corrupted files.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Woohoo the final episode made it out!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I didn’t make it all the way through this one, though I did get past the halfway point. I would therefore give it an overall thumbs down, but suprisingly it is, initially at least, fairly compelling. Unfortunately after a half a dozen episodes it becomes hackneyed, labourious, and grated on my nerves with such severity it was impossible to continue.
It is without a doubt the most cliche’d piece of work I have ever encountered, (here anyway) and were it not for the adult content, I would deem it perfect for those young emerging minds that are far more forgiving. The stilted depiction is far to overbaring, and though the story itself is actually quite good, it is overshadowed by this rather severe shortcoming.
There were a few minor audio glitches, but generally the quality is quite good. It is an audio story production rather than a straight oratory, and I must say this is actually quite impressive. It is a bit of a shame that this has, in my opinion, been addressed more earnestly than the actual story.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:50 am
I didn’t finish this one after 6 episodes… Just not my cup of tea, although Saylor’s knowledge of Demonic Insights seems to be fairly knowledgeable…
Can you hear the sounds of faint praise condemning this book?
Jim Fleming
September 30th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hello,
Great story so far, I’m on episode 11. I did notice an issue with episode 7. The intro music starts playing over top of the story.
Maybe you need to replace that file?
~Ed
October 19th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Well, for those of you who didn’t finish the book, you missed the great fight scene in the end, followed by the big reveal that was ripped straight from the scripts of The Empire Stikes Back and Return of The Jedi.
Overall the book started out great, but seemed to run out of steam. Pretty good sound quality though. If you want a good story, check out Scott Sigler’s work!