By Zack Quaintance — As keen watchers of my Twitter account are no doubt away by now because I wouldn’t shut up about it yesterday, I wrote a long piece looking at the lost DC Comics sci-fi classic Twilight. Much of this piece was a contemplation of why such a complex, rich, and imaginative comic never took hold as an innovative DC classic of the era, especially given the amount of ambitious and experimental DC material from the time that is now beloved.

I’m not sure I landed on any answers, but I did my darndest. You can find the entire piece over at The Beat, and I’d be deeply grateful if you gave it a read. I should point out here that subsequently it was pointed out to me that part of it was (as I’d written) that the book came out just before Vertigo, which has made it difficult to tap for reprints and rebrandings. In short, it was a complicated book at an odd time that in spite giant efforts from its creators became a bit lost in the shuffle.

Anyway! What I want to do here today is just get on record that I’m telling you all to check out some of the top-tier panels in this comic from all-time great artist José Luis García-López, one of the best to ever do the thing. I mean...just look at these panels!

The guy packs so much detail, imagination, and craft into his work. Not only fun to look at but truly an inspiration as well. Anyway, read the book if you haven’t! If nothing else, it’s an interesting encapsulation of an odd transitional time for ambitious comics at DC.

And let’s go out on some more, specifically the character designs from the back of the Twilight collection…

You can buy Twilight online here.

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.