Shadowed #1: Where There’s Light

October 31, 2026 Noah Frank-Hotinczan

Where there’s light, there are shadows. And the shadows are here to punish the bad. Welcome to Episode 1 of Shadowed, our new noir webcomic: a journalist dug too deep and was killed. Now he’s back, without a shadow, and he can sense every lie.

Shadowed #1 cover: Where There's Light. Rebos in a trench coat with glowing blue eyes stands in a rainy alley under a streetlamp.

Panel 1: Rainy night city with a newsroom building, one window lit, lamps glowing on a wet street. Caption: "Every city keeps its secrets. Mine was about to tell me one too many."

Panel 2: A living Rebos in a trench coat stands in a cluttered newspaper archive in front of a pinboard of photos and notes. Caption: "Three months of digging. One name nobody wanted printed."

Panel 3: Close-up of Rebos reading a phone that says STOP DIGGING.; a dark figure stands in the archive doorway behind him. Rebos: "Too late for that."

Panel 4: A press pass on a cord drops into a rain-soaked puddle in a dark alley, ripples spreading. Caption: "I never saw who."

Panel 5: A completely black panel. Caption: "Then there was nothing."

Panel 6: Drained Rebos with a white hair streak rises from one knee on a rainy street, mouth open, a streetlamp behind him. Rebos: "...Why am I still here?"

Panel 7: A man's legs and shoes under a streetlamp on wet pavement; a hydrant and bin cast shadows but he casts none. Caption: "Where there's light, there are shadows."

Panel 8: A blindfolded statue of Lady Justice with red tears and a broken gavel in the rain; one eye peeks out from the blindfold. Caption: "And the shadows are here to punish the bad." Caption: "To be continued."

End card: Shadowed #1. Where there's light, there are shadows. And the shadows are here to punish the bad. Writer: N. M. F. Hotinczan. gamersuniverse.eu

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Shadowed #1: Where There's Light, a noir webcomic strip. A rainy city at night, a journalist digs through an archive, gets a threat, is killed in an alley, then wakes without a shadow under a streetlight. A weeping Lady Justice with a broken gavel closes the episode. — Shadowed #1: Where There’s Light. Artwork: Gamersuniverse

About Shadowed

Shadowed is an original noir webcomic by Gamersuniverse. It follows Rebos, an investigative journalist who was silenced for a story nobody wanted printed. He returns without a shadow, and with a new gift: he can sense every lie.

New episodes coming soon.

Artwork: Gamersuniverse

Noah Frank-Hotinczan

Noah Frank-Hotinczan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Gamersuniverse.eu, an independent gaming and entertainment magazine, online since 2020. A developer who has programmed since age 11, he covers games, film and series, lore, performance guides and reviews. He also leads the regional magazine B24TV and streams on Twitch.

About Shadowed

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