Image Comics' New Series Twig Debuts an Imaginative World Full of Mystery
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Twig #1!
A new series called Twig from Image Comics thrusts readers into a deeply imaginative and expansive world where mysteries surrounding the titular character's undisclosed important adventure abound — questions that will likely stay unanswered for the majority of this fantasy miniseries. And that's a good thing.
Written by Skottie Young (I Hate Fairyland and the recently concluded Middlewest, also from Image), Twig's first issue of five introduces readers to an odd little critter of the same name who wakes up late for the first day of his unidentified job and must now embark on a long journey in a hurry just to get started. The world Twig travels through, masterfully rendered by artist Kyle Strahm (Spread and Unearth), is already quite extensive despite Image only having released one issue. Twig first ventures inside the mouth of a very decrepit tree, where he receives some important relics for his mysterious quest from other troll-like beasts, before traveling through a slew of highly diverse areas where each one is somehow more outlandish than the last.
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As the Image Comics preview for the next issue clearly indicates, this pattern of Twig wandering through completely different ecosystems will likely continue, despite readers having seen so many already. This not only presents the possibility that Twig won't actually start his job any time soon, but it creates the impression that readers won't actually learn where Twig is going and what he actually has to do. This will hopefully be the case, as each comment readers hear about Twig's new job only heightens their curiosity. The fact that he's also late for
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