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The Twilight Children
by Gilbert Hernández, Darwyn Cooke, Dave Stewart
What?
First, let's get the good out the way. I loved the artwork! One of the artists for Batman: The Animated Series did the artwork, and his work shows a wonderful balance between cartoony and mature.
Onto what the heck this story was... None of it makes sense, so don't try to understand it.
ARC 1
-"promiscuous" wife, Tito, in a small town wants to leave; cheating on husband with an abusive dude Anton; wants to have sex with every male character alive except Bundo (I'm sorry, but she just felt like a sex-kitten fantasy some writer dreamed up. Why does she feel stuck there? Is she poor? why isn't she looking for a rich dude? why is she with Anton?)
-Anton talks about his "big balls." Okay, we're back in high-school everyone *eye roll*
- 3 kids look into a magic ball of light and go blind (makes sense)
- random white-haired lady, Ela, that looks exactly like Tito shows up
- A scientist named Felix shows up. he's mysterious?
-Sherrif is a stick in the mud
- Bundo is an alcoholic still depressed about his family dying and strangely attracted to these weird balls of lights
- cool lady in a black suit talks but never does anything important
ARC 2
-Tito wants Felix; Felix does too? until Ela shows up.
- Tito's husband is okay and knows Anton is sleeping with his wife every night (so why did they have to sneak around?)
-Tito has a temper tantrum that Felix wants Ela
- Sherrif has anger issues and pins Tito to the ground like she robbed a bank
-Tito's husband gets freaked out/turned on whenever he sees Ela? I DON'T KNOW! Did they have history or something?
-Antwon slaps the fire out of Tito like the wimp-made man he is
-Also, when adults look at the ball of light they go naked, but kids only go blind? why? because fanservice.
ARC 3/4
-umm, alien-girl Ela says she gon' put a stop to the "evil" balls of light. Okay???
-Tito tells the sheriff he better have sex with her because the world might end
- antwon and Tito's husband work together to get rid of Felix
- some secret agents in Hawaiian shirts keep showing up, but they're really irrelevant
- Back to Ela, apparently she can talk now for some reason??? because before she could only communicate to the blind kids with her hands in contact
-Ela waves her hands around and the ball of light disappears.
- Apparently, Felix and she are in love
- Ela and the sheriff hook up? whyyyy? he manhandled you like dirt? I thought you wanted to leave this place!?!
SOMEBODY MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!
First, let's get the good out the way. I loved the artwork! One of the artists for Batman: The Animated Series did the artwork, and his work shows a wonderful balance between cartoony and mature.
Onto what the heck this story was... None of it makes sense, so don't try to understand it.
ARC 1
-"promiscuous" wife, Tito, in a small town wants to leave; cheating on husband with an abusive dude Anton; wants to have sex with every male character alive except Bundo (I'm sorry, but she just felt like a sex-kitten fantasy some writer dreamed up. Why does she feel stuck there? Is she poor? why isn't she looking for a rich dude? why is she with Anton?)
-Anton talks about his "big balls." Okay, we're back in high-school everyone *eye roll*
- 3 kids look into a magic ball of light and go blind (makes sense)
- random white-haired lady, Ela, that looks exactly like Tito shows up
- A scientist named Felix shows up. he's mysterious?
-Sherrif is a stick in the mud
- Bundo is an alcoholic still depressed about his family dying and strangely attracted to these weird balls of lights
- cool lady in a black suit talks but never does anything important
ARC 2
-Tito wants Felix; Felix does too? until Ela shows up.
- Tito's husband is okay and knows Anton is sleeping with his wife every night (so why did they have to sneak around?)
-Tito has a temper tantrum that Felix wants Ela
- Sherrif has anger issues and pins Tito to the ground like she robbed a bank
-Tito's husband gets freaked out/turned on whenever he sees Ela? I DON'T KNOW! Did they have history or something?
-Antwon slaps the fire out of Tito like the wimp-made man he is
-Also, when adults look at the ball of light they go naked, but kids only go blind? why? because fanservice.
ARC 3/4
-umm, alien-girl Ela says she gon' put a stop to the "evil" balls of light. Okay???
-Tito tells the sheriff he better have sex with her because the world might end
- antwon and Tito's husband work together to get rid of Felix
- some secret agents in Hawaiian shirts keep showing up, but they're really irrelevant
- Back to Ela, apparently she can talk now for some reason??? because before she could only communicate to the blind kids with her hands in contact
-Ela waves her hands around and the ball of light disappears.
- Apparently, Felix and she are in love
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SOMEBODY MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!