If you’re nonetheless seeking to fill that The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance-shaped gap in your coronary heart, an answer might have arrived, no less than if you happen to’re prepared to modify mediums. Writer Skottie Young and artist Kyle Strahm have created a brand new fantasy world so that you can go to, stuffed with whimsical and simply disturbing-enough-to-be-fascinating locations, creatures, and gadgets of their new comedian Twig that it could possibly be your new favourite obsession.

Twig, a small blue creature who seems not wholly not like Beebo from Legends of Tomorrow, turns into his individuals’s new Placeling, which requires him to journey all through a richly detailed fantasy land within the vein of The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, or Jeff Smith’s beloved Bone comics. But Twig isn’t simply an explorer; the destiny of his world and plenty of others rests on his fuzzy shoulders and his capacity to navigate sentient mountains, hidden risks, and extra. But be happy to see for your self in these assorted pages from problem #1, courtesy of Image Comics:

“Working with Kyle on Twig has been like two kids getting together, playing pretend with their toys and then making a book about it,” provides Young.

You can get a very good sense of how imaginative and distinctive the lands of Twig are simply in these three pages, however “these are just a few locales from the series,” guarantees Strahm. “Twig journeys through many whimsical lands. Skottie and I frequently discussed how the world should look and feel and Jean has elevated everything with his color.”

“Working with Kyle on Twig has been like two kids getting together, playing pretend with their toys and then making a book about it,” provides Young. If that appeals, you may try the whole lot of Twig #1 right this moment, May 4, in comics shops and digitally.

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