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TWILIGHT
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Created and written
by Steven Grant
TWILIGHT MAN ©™1988, 2005 by Steven Grant. All rights reserved. This material may not be replicated in any way, shape, format or medium, for any reason, without express written permission from the author. |
TWILIGHT MAN was one of those projects that got away from me. I still like the basic idea, that the unconscious symbolism in our modern lives has us inadvertently playing out the destructive programming of ancient myths, and until we become conscious of the gods we really worship the repetition of ancient stupidities is the best we can hope for. My original 12 issue maxi-series idea featured all kinds of real world modern representations of ancient mythologies, especially in our political behavior (the prospect of nuclear war, for instance, was the result, courtesy of the Norse who scattered their genes throughout Russia and Europe and on down to America, of genetic predisposition toward a final universal holocaust of fire and ice) and to which pleasantries like Christianity and reason were nothing more than decoration. Things started going sour when First cut the series down from 12 to 4 issues, forcing me to throw out my elaborate original storyline. A second storyline, to return Dionysus from his watered down Victorian interpretation of a drunken, semi-comical god of wine to the quasi-demonic agent of destruction and madness that he originally was, not to mention Dionysus' many parallels to (and possibly inspiration of) Jesus, were likewise thrown out, for fear that Dionysus would be dismissed by the comics audience (which I doubt had an opinion one way or the other) as a jolly old wino and not much of a threat. (For a good treatment of Dionysus, check out Eddie Campbell's BACCHUS stories.) Our compromise was a story deriving from Zoroastrian myth, but I was never very satisfied with it - it sort of turned into Dr. Strange - a matter compounded when the artist announced, shortly after he started, that storytelling was dead. Not exactly the sort of thing that fills me with confidence. But I did manage to save one issue of the original idea and use it in the second issue of the mini-series that finally surfaced, bobbed and vanished. I still like the issue and the idea behind it a lot, and one of these days I'd like to take another crack at TWILIGHT MAN and get it right this time. | ||
