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The Twilight Zone Podcast

Review: The Way Back by J. Michael Straczynski

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Tom Elliot completes his trilogy of episodes on The Twilight Zone from Dynamite Comics, written by J. Michael Straczynski.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Tonight we bring to a close our look at the three volume arc of the Twilight Zone comic written by Jay Michael Strzinski in the first arc the first four issues that you can buy in a paperback collection we meet Trevor Richmond and on the back of that volume it says Trevor Richmond is a Wall Street investor who embezzled millions and is about to destroy the economy.

0:57.0

Desperate to avoid the consequences of his actions, he goes to expedited services, which offers to help him disappear and enjoy a life of leisure in a new identity.

1:10.0

But what exactly is this new life and how much is freedom

1:14.0

worth and what happens to the old life when someone else shows up to claim it? Now what I liked

1:22.0

about that first arc was how it presented that Twilight's own brand of Cosmic Justice in a new way.

1:31.3

The Twilight Zone will either pick you up or it will punish you for things you've done

1:36.3

or it will just do something strange for the sake of it.

1:40.3

This time round we kind of see the first two, but for the first time we see them together in one

1:48.0

narrative in one cohesive story so it's pushing the boundaries of the twilight zone but still

1:56.1

staying true to that spirit in collection two which is issues is Issues 5 to 8, we meet Diana Westby and it says nothing special

2:06.1

has ever happened to Diana Westby.

2:08.7

She has a comfortable relationship, a decent job and vague dreams for the future.

2:14.8

But now something has happened to her, something beyond understanding.

2:19.3

She is suddenly able to hear thoughts and see glimpses of the future, a future that includes the threat of a mushroom cloud,

2:27.3

rising over downtown Manhattan. As someone who has never had to stick her neck out for someone else,

2:33.3

Diana must choose between her own safety and the lives of millions of others.

2:40.0

Her decision will take her from the abyss of her worst fears to the summit of her courage,

2:47.0

a journey that could only happen in the Twilightilight zone now what i liked about that collection

2:54.3

is it uses certain ideas that we've seen in the twilight zone strasinski seems to stick very much

3:03.7

to the the template of ordinary people in unusual situations and in the original

3:12.5

show we would often see someone maybe given an item or bestowed with an

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