What is Mike/Shadow Mans background?
Mike LeRoi is a failed English literature student who was paying off his college fund by working as a taxi driver in Chicago. An amount of cash was left in his ca one night — he took it for himself and headed home for New Orleans. Here the mob caught up with him and attempted a hit. Unfortunately, his family — including his brother Luke, got caught in the crossfire, leaving them dead and Mike in a coma. When he finally recovered, the amnesiac Mike fell into the seedy underworld of New Orleans and became a professional hitman. It was then that Mama Nettie found him — a black canvas for her terrible schemes. She overcame him with her powers and forcibly implanted the Mask of Shadows into Mike’s chest, which effectively killed him and turned him into her zombie slave. The Shadow Man, on the other hand, is the Lord of Deadside. Bearing the blowing Mask of Shadows within his chest, he protects our world (Liveside) from evils that pass across the barrier from the world of the dead (Deadsi
