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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twilight_guardian.png]]
2	''Twilight Guardian'' is a comic-book miniseries by Creator/TroyHickman, published by Creator/ImageComics imprint Top Cow as part of their "Pilot Season" initiative.
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4	In an unnamed suburb somewhere in the midwest, one lone woman spends her nights patrolling her nine-block neighborhood, protecting her neighbors from crime. Usually, it's a quiet patrol, but lately, people just outside her patrol have disappeared, including her ex-boyfriend John, and she has sensed someone watching her. Could it just be coincidences, or is it her mysterious arch-nemesis, the Dusk Devil?
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8	!!This series contains examples of:
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10	* DarkerAndEdgier: One of the pitches that Twilight Guardian receives re-imagines her as a violent, gun-toting vigilante.
11	* DisappearedDad: Twilight Guardian's father disappeared when she was very young, and her mother suspects that he might have been a serial killer, given that his disappearance was preceded by a string of other disappearances in the area. [[spoiler:In Issue #4, he appears and explains that he walked out on Pam and her mother because he'd become convinced that the government was planning to frame him for the disappearances.]]
12	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
13	** Ian St. Switherington, the British writer behind one of the pitches that Twilight Guardian receives, appears to be based on Creator/AlanMoore, with possibly a dash of Creator/WarrenEllis.
14	** [[spoiler:TG's comic-artist father, with his paranoid obsession with Objectivism, is very obviously based on Creator/SteveDitko.]]
15	* PunnyName: This series abounds with them, particularly in TG's massive comic-book collection. Highlights include Bananas Froster, a super-intelligent monkey with a freeze ray; Oktoberfist, a German bruiser; and Slaughterdammerung, a Wagner-themed ComicBook/{{Thanos}} expy. TG herself gets in on the act, adopting the pseudonym "Eve Ward" when she travels to Madeline Island.
16	* ShoutOut:
17	** The comic-book convention in Issue #2 feature posters and cosplayers for various other Top Cow properties, like ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' and ''ComicBook/CommonGrounds'' (the latter happens to be another Hickman comic.)
18	** "The Gulch", one of the superheroes TG's dad created, is clearly named after Galt's Gulch, the supposed utopia from ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''. The comic is also deliberately drawn in imitation of Creator/SteveDitko's style.

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