Twilight Zone: Walking Distance »

ROD SERLING (creator) has won the most Emmy awards for dramatic writing in the history of television. He wrote over seventyfive episodes of the Twilight Zone series. for which he won three of his Emmys. He was also the show’s creator, host, and narrator.

MARK KNEECE (adapter) has written stories for numerous comics, including Batman: Legends of the Dark. In 1993, he came to Savannah College of Art and Design and helped found the Ssequential Art and Animation Department, where he teaches comics writing.

DOVE McHARGUE (illustrator, Walking Distance) works as a freelance artist/writer in the comics industry and is a faculty member at the Savannah College of Art and Design, in the Sequential Art and Animation Department. He lives in Savannah, Georgia with his wife and their identical triplets.

One of most ground-breaking shows in the history of television, The Twilight Zone has become a permanent fixture in pop culture. This new graphic novel series re-imagines the show’s most enduring episodes, in all their original uncut glory, originally written by Rod Serling himself, and now adapted for a new generation—a generation that has ridden Disney’s Twilight Zone Tower of TerrorTM ride, studied old episodes in school, watched the annual marathons, and paid homage to the show through the many random take-offs that show up in movies and TV shows everywhere.

Destination: Homewood. Step off the beaten path as Martin Sloan takes the journey of a lifetime. Somewhere up the road he’s looking for redemption— but he’ll find something entirely different.

Alan Review

In this adaptation of a classic The Twilight Zone screenplay, high-strung Martin Sloan is struggling to deal with everyday pressures and longs for days gone by. In a strange turn of events, he does, in fact, return to his past, desperately trying to warn the younger version of himself of what lies ahead. Will anyone believe that Sloan has actually traveled in time? How will he return to his own life? Will there be consequences? Clues in the graphic novel format let the reader in on a few details in advance of Sloan, himself! In addition to Walking Distance, other classic The Twilight Zone screenplays have been adapted, including The After Hours, The Odyssey of Flight 33, and The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. In this new adapted format, The Twilight Zone stories will find a new audience. Reviewer: Faith H. Wallace