Subject: Re: The last scene of the 12/1 episode
From: st860070@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Date: 1990-12-04, 18:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Were any other comic book fans out there intensely reminded of Swamp Thing
#27 by the end of the 12/1 episode?  For those who haven't read it, this is
a horror comic book that was less than a year into a startling new run that
arguably changed the face of the comic book industry.  As part of an ongoing plot in issue #27, one of the supporting characters gets into a car crash.  As
he lies in the twisted wreckage, slowly bleeding to death, a fly comes and
sits on the steering wheel and talks to him.  It offers to save his life if
he will just "let him in" (to use Leland's term).  He opens his mouth and the
fly walks in.  When he is next seen he (and the car) appear perfectly healthy
and in fine shape.  Of course, he is now inhabited by an incredibly evil
spirit, but no one finds out about that for several more issues :-)  If
people are interested in reading this story, it has been reprinted in a couple
of trade paperbacks by DC comics, both of which are in print.  The first volume has the scene with the car crash, the second volume has the culmination to that ongoing plot.
Alexx