Sam and Twitch, is a
fantasy noir stylish
comic book written by
Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by
Angel Medina. The two title characters come from
Todd McFarlane's famous
Spawn series.
Detectives
Sam Burke and
Maximilian "Twitch" Williams are not the two most favorite guys at their precinct. They are known to work with the mysterious creature
Spawn, and haven't gotten much of a better
reputation out of it.
Sam is a
loudmouthed,
obese, and
unclean man. He tends to eat quite constantly, even on a crime scene. When he doesn't eat, he's usually
smoking. He's
blunt, but not cruel, in fact he is quite
chivalrous.
Twitch is a
quiet,
soft-spoken, and
polite man. He has a wife and two kids who he loves dearly, but his job still comes first to him. His thick
glasses, bushy
moustache, and
white crumpled hair, make him not look like the kind of detective who would not be able to use a
gun.
The first graphic novel,
Udaku, has Sam and Twitch being rehired by their Chief, after a bout as
private detectives. Apparently after they had left, their
precinct had gotten worse then when Sam and Twitch were there. They were immediatly put on to a crime scene with a normal "
Guido"
shootout. Except for the fact that there were four
severed thumbs delicatly placed at the crime scene next to each other. If that wasn't weird enough, tests showed that they came from the same person, with less and less
genetic stability. And another
crime scene was found shortly, with four
severed ears...
Sam and Twitch is very good series that really has no need of the
Spawn background. It is easily read by people who have never even seen an issue of
Spawn(like me). The second graphic novel should be out shortly, but after that
Todd McFarlane will take over the series, as
Brian Michael Bendis gives more attention to his own incredible series(
Powers and
Ultimate Spiderman).