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Review: THE TWILIGHT CHILDREN #1

THE TWILIGHT CHILDREN No. 1
DC COMICS/Vertigo – @DCComics

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

WRITER: Gilbert Hernandez
ART: Darwyn Cooke
COLORS: Dave Stewart
LETTERS: Darwyn Cooke
COVER: Darwyn Cooke
40pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (December 2015)

Suggested for mature readers

The Twilight Children created by Gilbert Hernandez and Darwyn Cooke

“Part One”

Gilbert Hernandez is the creator of the long-running comic book, Love and Rockets, with his brother, Jaime Hernandez.  Darwyn Cooke is a fan-favorite for his epic DC Comics miniseries, DC: The New Frontier, but his best works are the Parker graphic novels which adapt the work of famed crime fiction writer, Richard Stark.  Cooke and Hernandez are two of comic books greatest storytellers, and they finally united for a comics project.

Hernandez wrote and Cooke drew the recent four-issue miniseries, The Twilight Children, which was published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.  The story is set in a remote village and begins with the sudden arrival of a glowing orb and the mysterious visitor that arrives afterwards.

The Twilight Children #1 opens in a coastal fishing village somewhere in Latin America.  In some ways, it is like other places.  There is a village drunk, Bundo.  There is a town flirt, Tito, who cheats on her husband, Nikolas, with the brawny, Anton.

And then, three children:  Milo, Grover, and Jael spot a mysterious, glowing white orb appears.  It seems as if this isn't the first time this village has experienced such an appearance.  When one of the children touches the white orb, all hell breaks loose.

It is no exaggeration to call Gilbert Hernandez and Darwyn Cooke comics luminaries.  Cooke has had more mainstream success than Hernandez by producing a considerable amount of work for DC Comics.  However, Hernandez laid much of the groundwork for the explosion of indie comics and alt-comix graphic novels and publications that have appeared over the last 30 years.  When comic book creators try to create comics that read like modern fiction or even literary fiction, they are working and winning Eisner and Harvey Awards under the roof of a house that Gilbert and handful of others built, under which they now shelter their creative endeavors.

That said, The Twilight Children, at least the first issue, does not really reflect the best work of neither Hernandez nor Cooke.  It lacks the surrealism or even the anything-goes attributes of much of Hernandez's work.  Some of his work has a sense of menace about it, as if there is always a bit of cruelty or even a cruel fate awaiting the characters.  The white orb is only kinda menacing.

Cooke's art is slick in The Twilight Children #1, but not in that bracing, invigorating way that propels his Parker comics.  This is the kind of slick that is more in line with the dumpster Watchmen comics he produced for DC Comics a few years ago.  Don't get me wrong.  I think the art here is quite pretty in some places, and Dave Stewart's coloring is gorgeous.  The Cooke-Stewart team had me looking through the book even as I wrote this review.

I think the storytelling in this first issue is a little too cool, or maybe this is two giants just feeling each other out.  Anyway, I'm going to read the rest of The Twilight Children.  Besides, even Hernandez and Cooke's not-best is still better than most others' best.

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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Review: GRIP: The Strange World of Men #1

GRIP: THE STRANGE WORLD OF MEN No. 1
DC COMICS – @DCComics

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

STORY/ART: Gilbert Hernandez
COLORS: Pamela Rambo
LETTERS: John Costanza
COVER: Gilbert Hernandez with Lee Loughridge
32pp, Color, $2.50 U.S., $4.25 CAN (January 2002)

Part 1: “Grip of Fear”

Cartoonist and comix creator, Gibert Hernandez, is most famous for being one-half of Los. Bros. with his brother, Jaime Hernandez.  Together, they are the creators of the long-running comic book series, Love and Rockets (with their brother Mario sometimes contributing).

Most of Gilbert's work has been published by alternative comics publisher, Fantagraphics Books, but some of his output has been released by other entities.  One example is the 2002 five issue miniseries, Grip: The Strange World of Men, that was published by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint.  Gilbert wrote and drew this miniseries with colors by Pamela Rambo and letters by John Costanza.

Grip: The Strange World of Men #1 (“Grip of Fear”) opens in an unnamed city on a busy sidewalk.  We meet a young man of Asian extraction (Chinese-American?) with a lipstick imprint of a kiss on his right cheek.  He does not know who he is, but in the suit he is wearing, he finds the state license of a Black man named “Clarence Gideon.”

The young man discovers that he has a strange aversion to institutions that might be able to help him, but he can visit the home of Clarence Gideon's wife.  Meeting Mrs. Gideon begins the slow process of discovering his past, but a man calling himself “Joe Hook” claims to know all.

I had long forgotten about Grip: The Strange World of Men, but during a recent re-organization and clean-up, I found that I had bought all five issue.  I can't remember why I had never gotten around to reading it (and many other comics books that I had apparently “squirreled” away).  I decided to read at least the first issue and review it... for those that might decide to discover it or rediscover it.  Dark Horse Comics collected Grip in a trade paperback last year.  Grip: The Strange World of Men, unlike many Vertigo, so-called creator-owned series, is entirely owned by Gilbert Hernandez.

Anyway, if Gilbert Hernandez were not credited as the writer-artist of Grip, I would not necessarily associate it with him, although it does resemble some of his other work.  Right now, I'm thinking of Gilbert's contributions to the early incarnation of the 1980s comic book, Mr. X.  Still, this has an odd quality; perhaps, it simply does not resemble Gilbert's recent work and that is what is throwing me off.  Grip is playful, even with the explicit depictions of violence.  It is hugely intriguing and looks like an alt-comix interpretation of one of those Alfred Hitchcock murder-mystery, suspense thrillers.  The difference is that Grip does not seem so intense.

I have long thought of Gilbert as being one of the best comic book writers in North America over the better part of four decades, with him often being the best.  Truthfully, he is a gift to American comic books, a unique voice in the wilderness of corporate products, media tie-ins, and genre dumpster comics.  Grip shows that he can be imaginative even on cruise control.

A-

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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