The Twilight Zone (IDW)

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Didn't know what to expect from this new series. Different publishers have tried to bring back The Twilight Zone as a comic book series from time to time, but the results have never been all that impressive (to me), even with names such as Harlan Ellison and Neal Adams attached. This is an anthology series with a different writer/artist or writer/artist team every issue, so the results are liable to be mixed. I was going to post my thoughts on the first issue to the "What Comic Books Have You  Read Today?" discussion, but this first issue was impressive enough (again, to me) to begin its own dedicated thread. 

This first issue is written by Dan Watters, and he definitely has Rod Serling's distinctive patois down pat. I had no trouble hearing Serling's voice in my mind's ear as I read the opening and closing narration. The plot, too, is very Serling-esque, about a dying rich man obsessed with eliminating death, and yes, befefitting all mankind. (Spoiler: It doesn't work out that way.) The story is drawn in an impressionistic style by artist Morgan Beem. Instead of detail, we get mood. It's not beautiful on the surface, but sometimes beauty rests in the design rather than in perfect delineation of a character or thing.

It's not a perfect imitation of the old TV show, but it's at least as good an approximation as Oni Press's "EC" comics are of the original EC Comics. And that's a pretty high compliment.

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  • I've read enough stories about defeating death that I know, in general, that it's a bad idea. If nothing else, we're overrun by insects in a week. And there are already 8 billion people on the planet, a number which is still staggering to me, I don't even want to know what it would look like if people stopped dying. That's bad enough. But I'm sure the writer of this story has read all those other stories, too, and has a surprise for me.

    Now I'll have to check the book out! 

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