Tripwire Reviews Ahoy’s The Wrong Earth: Night And Day#1

More New Worlds Of Possibility

Tripwire’s contributing editor Scott Braden takes a look at Ahoy’s The Wrong Earth: Night and Day#1…

The Wrong Earth: Night And Day #1
Writer: Tom Peyer
Artist: Jamal Igle & Juan Castro
Ahoy Comics

You can keep your DC Comics’ Death Metal “brouhaha.”  Go ahead and tie up that Marvel Comics’ Empyre “extravaganza.” As snazzy as those modern-day “myths” might be, there is something else for me and you in 2021. Something unabashedly super-heroic.

With that said, AHOY Comics’ newest The Wrong Earth release, Night and Day #1, is just too damn right!

Like its predecessor from 2019 and its prequel published last year in 2020, The Wrong Earth: Night and Day is not a hoax or an imaginary story: Take one costumed crimefighter from a sunnier Earth than ours, as well as a darker knight from a grim and gritty version of our world. Now, imagine that they were switched. With that, you have the four-color epic of Dragonflyman and The Dragonfly, respectively, as these misplaced marauders from multiple worlds try to make their way on each one’s corresponding wrong earth.

There’s a lot to love about this opening salvo. Take the masterful writing of Tom Peyer, whose stellar work reminds one of his incredible exploration of super-heroics in DC Comics’ Hourman. Then, there’s artist-extraordinaire Jamal Yaseem Igle, who readers will remember from his work on the critically acclaimed tomes Black and Molly Danger. As Igle dazzles the eye with his beautifully detailed storytelling, Peyer impresses with his dynamic characterization. Together with embellisher par excellence Juan Castro, these three are a comic book dream team reunited and have created a series that is in itself a dream come true for longtime comics fans and new readers everywhere.

No spoilers in this review because it is all set up for what is to come, but I will tell you that nothing much has changed since the end of the first Wrong Earth series. Stinger and Lady Dragonflyman (formally the evil henchwoman with a heart of gold, Deuce) are naively following the pragmatic Dragonfly, while Stinger II is fighting Dragonflyman’s “Good Fight” with enough ammo to make the House of Ideas’ Punisher feel inadequate. Take that any way you want.

But, on the other hand, everything has changed. Let’s just say that there is something in the water on both Earth Alpha and Earth Omega – something that has to do with mirrors, mirrors, and more mirrors to everywhere. And is that Stinger II’s Earth Alpha counterpart pictured on the “Missing” label on the milk that Stinger is reaching for in the fridge?

Conundrums upon conundrums. The Wrong Earth: Night and Day #1 is a question mark wrapped in an enigma – and it has me wanting more! I bet money it will do the same for you after your first visit to these new worlds of possibility. And your second visit . . . . and third . . . etc., etc.