Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daughter of the Revolution | 2015 | Chuck Wendig | N/A |
| 2 | The Shield #1 | 2015 | Chuck Wendig | Buy |
| 3 | The Shield #3 | 2016 | Chuck Wendig | Buy |
| 4 | The Shield #4 | 2016 | Chuck Wendig | Buy |
The Shield single issues by Chuck Wendig were published by Archie Comics under the Dark Circle imprint between 2015 and 2016. The series reimagines The Shield, one of the oldest patriotic superhero characters in comics, as a woman who emerges from the earth with incredible power but no memory of who she is or how she got there.
As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that she has existed throughout American history, fighting in wars going back centuries. Each issue peels back another layer of her past while she tries to figure out what she is in the present. Wendig brings a horror-tinged sensibility to the superhero genre, with the character’s resurrection and lost identity playing more like a supernatural thriller than a standard cape comic.
These individual issues were later collected in trade paperback form as The Shield, Vol. 1: Daughter of the Revolution. Readers who want the complete story in one volume can find it under the Red / Dark Circle Graphic Novels listing.