Wednesday, December 28, 2022

"The End" Week: The Twilight Zone #4!


This one's pretty contingent on clearing the rights for "Earth Angel," which I feel isn't dirt cheap? From 1993, the Twilight Zone #4, "Cafe Yesterday" Written by Robert Graff, pencils by Sandra Chang, inks by Tony deZuniga.

Despite his daughter reaching out for him, Walter Graham is wasting away after the death of his beloved wife Melanie. He had proposed to her in the park, at a wishing well he had never been able to find again, promising to love her forever and ever more. Finding the well again, he wishes he could see Melanie one more time. Nothing much happens.

On the way home, Walter finds himself turned around, and enters the 50's themed diner Cafe Yesterday. Which doesn't have a phone: gotta commit to a bit, I suppose. Of course,  "Earth Angel" is on the jukebox; and the young Melanie is there dancing. While Walter seems to have any number of serious things to tell her, Melanie seems a little flighty, but maybe it's just that she has all the time in the world, since Walter has finally come to her...leaving his body, dead besides the wishing well. 

Little slight, this one. This was the last of Now's second Twilight Zone series, although they planned on continuing with specials. I'm not positive that happened, but they did get a Twilight Zone Annual out at some point that year.

3 comments:

  1. Definitely a story that wouldn't have felt out of place being featured on the original TZ show.

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  2. He got off at Willoughby, all right.

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