Enter a Fantastically Fantastical World in ThisTwig #1Preview

If you ’re still look to fill thatThe Dark Crystal : Age of Resistance - shaped hole in your gist , a solution may have get in , at least if you ’re unforced to swop mediums . WriterSkottie Youngand creative person Kyle Strahm have create a new phantasy world for you to visit , full of whimsical and just disturbing - enough - to - be - bewitching places , creature , and items in their new comic Twig that it could be your unexampled favorite fixation .

Twig , a small blue creature who look not wholly unlike Beebo fromLegends of Tomorrow , becomes his people ’s newfangled Placeling , which requires him to travel throughout a richly elaborated fantasy land in the mineral vein of The Dark Crystal , Labyrinth , or Jeff Smith ’s beloved Bone comic . But Twig is n’t just an Internet Explorer ; the fate of his world and many others rests on his fuzzy shoulders and his power to sail sentient heap , hidden danger , and more . But experience complimentary to see for yourself in these assorted page from issue # 1 , good manners of Image Comics :

“ work with Kyle on Twig has been like two kids getting together , playing pretend with their toy and then make a book about it , ” adds Young .

Inset of Twig #1 cover B by Skottie Young.

Inset of Twig #1 cover B by Skottie Young.Image: Image Comics

you’re able to get a well sense of how imaginative and unique the lands of Twig are just in these three pages , but “ these are just a few locus from the serial , ” promise Strahm . “ Twig journeys through many whimsical land . Skottie and I frequently discussed how the earthly concern should look and feel and Jean has raise everything with his people of color . ”

“ Working with Kyle on Twig has been like two nestling puzzle together , playing make-believe with their toys and then make a book about it , ” adds Young . If that appeals , you’re able to retard out the integrality of Twig # 1 today , May 4 , in strip store and digitally .

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Twig #1 cover A by Kyle Strahm.