Poll: Favorite Twilight Lady Story
I’ve listed below the 6 main storylines so far in this comic’s existence, with a quick (and by no means complete) run-through of notable events. Short tales like “Peace Time” have been left out, since it’s not exactly fair to compare an 8-page story to, say, the “Oblivion Symphony” arc which spanned 6 chapters and 150+ pages. I’ve included links to the archive page of each storyline for those who haven’t read them all, or who wish to refresh their memory.
Poll will run from now till June 15th. Without further ado, here are the candidates:
1) The Secret of Cass Corridor – We are introduced to the denizens of Cass Corridor, including Rona and Jen as they run into Jason Kane and his cronies in a dark alleyway. Rona has her first encounter with the Lady, who shows up and metes out her specific brand of justice on Kane and gang (and later, on a muscle-bound demon named Stag). MC Vlad gives Rona a drink which causes her to hallucinate. She meets Zorro, who reveals to her the Lady’s secret.
2) The Realm in the Middle – Our first real glimpse of Subrealm, that curious neighboring reality that’s often the catalyst of events in this series. The Lady takes Rona on an astral journey, introducing her to a certain former escape artist turned grey alien and helping her locate the ghost of her father, who is on a spiritual quest of his own.
3) The Disappeared – Our Lady comes to the aid of Fang, a channeler turned shape-shifter accused of murder. Featuring the first appearance of paranormal “threat” handlers P.T. Shaw and Doctor Marjorie Dreyfuss.
4) Oblivion Symphony – The Lady has to rescue a former warrior ally/protege from the clutches of the demon troll Belahm. Rona is introduced to the Nemsiiki art. Along the way, Perse and a bunch of astral voyagers get involved, and the quest takes our entire crew deep into Subrealm, to a place called Rwahle that’s bathed in orblight.
5) Angel of Death… Nemesis of Decay – Eleanor, the Lady’s ostensible arch-nemesis (now that’s a loaded term), unleashes her grand plan. The Lady and Eleanor have an epic face-to-face. (Or is that arm-to-arm?) The ever-nutty Doctor Dreyfuss returns in all her showtune-loving, death-defying glory. Jason also makes a comeback. All that, and zombies.
6) Dance of the Indwellers – The ghost of Kiko, a twelve-year-old boy, seeks the Lady out in a bid to avenge his murder. Francesc, the brooding leader of a goth-rock band, appears to be the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Jen meets Isabella, a retired songstress and amateur demonologist whose mansion houses a rather mysterious garden of unearthly delights. Things then get a bit… complicated.
Which is your favorite Twilight Lady storyline?
- Oblivion Symphony (33%, 26 Votes)
- Dance of the Indwellers (26%, 20 Votes)
- Angel of Death... Nemesis of Decay (19%, 15 Votes)
- The Secret of Cass Corridor (9%, 7 Votes)
- The Realm in the Middle (6%, 5 Votes)
- The Disappeared (6%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 78
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Hm. Currently we’ve got an exponential decay as we look farther backward. Of course there aren’t enough votes yet for that to be significant, but it’s interesting.
(Would have also been interesting to do a preferential ballot — have people rank the arcs in order of preference, or give everyone 10 points to allocate over them all — and produce weighted scores.)
That would be interesting indeed, but not sure if it’s possible to do in WordPress.
Anyway, it’s still early days. Out of curiosity, which got your vote?
“have people rank the arcs in order of preference,”
Then my list would be
1. Oblivion Symphony
2. Angel of Death… Nemesis of Decay
3. The Secret of Cass Corridor/Dance of the Indwellers/The Disappeared
4. The Realm in the Middle
I couldn’t decide how to rank those 3, so i gave them same place
In my case, I must said that I voted to Oblivion Synphony, not because the older ones were bad, but because to me they are part of the same story, which all builds up to O.S., Angel of Death being the epilogue and transition to the new style (which you could call Season 2 of TL :P). Basically, all of them are good and necessary, but oviously the climax has to get more love 😀
…..Oh. I just started reading this recently, and pressing “First” under a comic only takes me to the beginning of the most recent chapter, so I was unaware of any strips prior to Dance of the Indwellers. *begins reading*
hmmm….which do you vote for, the first episodes that were good enough to make you add yet another comic to the list that you check nearly daily or the one that made you feel less like an idiot for staying up all night to read them all. Oblivion Symphony got my vote, but I’m not sure if I really liked it that much more than The Secret of Cass Corridor.
Thank you everyone who voted in this. The results are indeed illuminating.