Part of Top Cow’s “Pilot Season”, I picked up this one-shot after reading a few posts on the ComicBloc about it and being intrigued.
It follows the Twighlight Guardian. A regular girl who’s taken it upon herself to become a real-life superhero. Every night, she dons a mask, and patrols her neighbourhood looking for trouble, be it keeping an eye open for people casing houses, or helping old women change a flat tyre.
The story is told entirely from Twightlight’s thought balloons, and I found it a really rivetting read. You get drawn into her world, as she’s taken this role incredibly seriously. She has her neighbourhood mapped out on her wall, and every night she’s sure to pick a different patrol route to avoid the possibility of ambush. You get the impression there’s something really not right with this girl. While helping others is comendable, there’s obviously a larger story behind what’s driven her to do this. While, in real life, there are those real life superheroes who don capes and masks to help change tyres, hand out food to the homeless etc, you get the distinct impression that this character has gone beyond that somehow, and there’s some kind of trauma in her life that she needs to face.
Its an excellent read, and I’ll definitely be looking to pick up further issues if it wins the pilot season vote.
The great news is that the complete issue is now up on Newsarama (typically, after I just bought it ;-)). So if you’re interested, you can read the issue here.
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Had a look and it is interesting, I also liked Genius, about a girl in the Hood who starts a war with the police. SHame I can’t afford new titles.
I tried Genius but couldn’t get into it. I know what you mean about new titles though. I’m really hoping that once Final Crisis, Secret Invasion and Batman RIP are over that my pull list drops significantly.
Granted, I’ve now ID’d Captain Britain, The Initiative and Robin as three titles I’ll still be picking up once its over. Here’s hoping that’s about it though. With me avoiding DC’s weekly series after being stung by Countdown (apparently Trinity’s good, but I just can’t afford to buy another weekly), I’m really hoping my comics expenses go down sharply once the event season is done.
Saying that, the New Krypton stuff in the Superman titles looks good. Noooooo…
I’ve actually been quite successful, hardest drop was Daredevil but I was being brutal. I have a few more lined up in the drop list, Punisher War Journal has never really been great and is nearing the chop, Punisher itself may do too if the new creative team are lacklustre. Kind of odd that it will amrk the first time in 10 years I’m not buying Punisher. STill leaves a lot of titles but I’m proving I can be brutal.
I suspect that I need to sit down and work out exactly what I’m buying. I know quite a lot of them are mini-series, but some of them may as well be ongoings from the way they’ve built on each other (Mystery in Space + Countdown to Adventure = Rann-Thanagar Holy War).
Things are especially bad at the moment with Final Crisis tie-ins and one-shots. I’ll drop the Avengers books once Secret Invasion’s over (except Initiative I think), but as I say, the Superman titles are looking good for the next few months and there’s the Flash relaunch coming up (again).