Josiah Boniface
Full Name: Josiah Louis Boniface
Publisher: Valiant Comics
Created by: Patrick Zircher and Justin Jordan based on Josiah Torrent
1st appearance: Shadowman #1, 2012
Nationality: American
Team Affiliations: Unknown
Legal Status: Unknown
Height: 6’ Weight: 210 lbs
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown
Relatives: Jack Boniface (Son), Helena (Wife), Marius, Maxim, Michael (Ancestors)
Skills and abilities: Unknown
Powers: He possessed a symbiotic relationship with a shadowy creature granting him a vast array of powers.
Biography
Nothing is known of his past before he came to fall in love and impregnate Helena. Josiah was friends with a man named Dox in addition to having an extensive criminal record. Josiah as the Shadowman was the arch nemesis of Darque, a very powerful necromancer.
During his final battle with Darque before his son Jack was born they both seemingly killed each other, though he played into Darque’s hands by allowing the necromancer to crossover to “Deadside”.
His medallion was passed down to his son and prevented him from becoming the next Shadowman until he discarded it in a fit of rage. His current whereabouts are unknown, though he is assumed dead.
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- Josiah Boniface
December 22nd, 2012 at 3:10 am
[...] Josiah Boniface (Father, deceased), Helena (Mother, [...]
December 22nd, 2012 at 4:02 am
[...] years ago Shadowman/Josiah Boniface seemingly dies while saving the world from master Darque. In the present Josiah’s son Jack [...]
January 9th, 2013 at 12:14 am
[...] seems like a really nasty piece of work. Last issue we saw him (in the past) use Jack’s father Josiah to cross over to the Darkside. Now we realize he has survived the “should have been fatal” [...]
January 31st, 2013 at 12:34 am
[...] dead side Jack and Alyssa are separated. Jack is taken to face an echo of his father as shadowman who gives him a choice of remaining free of the Shadow Loa and returning home to a normal life, [...]
April 12th, 2013 at 9:23 pm
[...] things on the shelves certainly but they have potential and I trust Zircher and to move modern day Jack Boniface into one of the new power players at the relaunched valiant. It also helps that this is his ongoing [...]