The Twilight Zone #3 // Review
It's another time. But it's not necessarily another place. There's a vast army that is approaching. They've conquered many.. 80 different tribes had dwelt between the great rivers. All 80 had fallen to this particular award of warriors. And now they're facing what might be their greatest challenge. Perhaps all that protests the tribe are the massive walls that keep it safe. Or perhaps it's something more in.The Twilight Zone #3. Writer/artist James Stokoe delivers a truly enjoyable take on an old concept that fits quite cleverly between two covers. The writer artist is embracing the spirit of the original franchise in a way that is truly unique to the comics page.
The warlord had captured one from inside the walls. He is defiant. He certainly knows something. The warlord doesn't. Something about what lies within the city walls. Something that makes him totally confident in his communities ability to find off the invading hoard. The warlord in question has seen much, though. There's no not small feet completely delay. Waste to 80 other cultures. Certainly they've seen much. But what they're about to see when they make it beyond the walls of the city might just be something that they're not quite ready for.
Stokoe has the tone and form of a Twilight Zone story perfect down to the last syllable. It fits perfectly in with everything that was going on in Rod Serling's original anthology. Furthermore, it embraces the spirit of philosophical inquiry and wild eyed exploration that had come to define further work with the franchise both in pre-existing comic books, and subsequent TV series and the relatively long running short story anthology magazine that bought its title. It's a really fun mixture of different elements, though. And while the execution of the script isn't totally flawless, it is a great deal of fun.
The black-and-white format of a comic book. It certainly does embrace the overall visual feel of the original series. That's pretty much where it ends, though. The large epic scale of the story that's being told would not have been something CBS could've done back in the 1960s. The highly stylized rendering of the world that's being presented in this particular incarnation of the twilight zone ends up being a great deal of fun. It's not strikingly realistic or anything like that. Anyone can't help but imagine that the story might have had a little bit more impact with a more strikingly, realistic, visual style. But the personality that.Stokoe is bringing to the page is extremely enjoyable.
It's really difficult to get down into specifics about what could have been done better with this particula story. Any stylistic flies that could be pointed out, really don't happen until towards the end of the issue. And that's where they're relief fund plot twist hits. So it's really hard to talk about it without giving away the central pleasure of seeing a mystery like this slowly unfold. So much of what makes this issue work isStokoe paces the exploration of this particular world. He's got it down so well and it's so nice to see such a deep respect for the art of storytelling in yet another entry into the Chronicles of.THe Twilight Zone
