If you have a green thumb, maybe the Jenkins Family Farm supplied it. They’ve been growing organic body parts for years. But like many well-meaning experiments that seemed like a good idea at the time, something went horribly wrong.
For comics readers, though, something went horribly right. Now writer/artist Rob Guillory prepares to bring his epic Farmhand to a close. The final arc starts on May 7, and Image Comics released some unlettered final art to keep readers hungry for more. If you haven’t read Farmhand, Guillory’s follow up to his collaboration with John Layman on Chew, you have about a month to catch up.
Which you should do. It’s a perfectly creepy tale made unique by Guillory’s inimitable art style. Fluid and organic, Guillory veers from the cartoonish to the grotesque with ease, and the result provides just the right note of fun discomfort.
From Image Comics:
Popular horror/satire series Farmhand—by Chew co-creator/artist extraordinaire, Rob Guillory—will kick off its highly anticipated finale story arc next month in Farmhand #21 from Image Comics.
This pulse-pounding denouement will see Monica Thorne in complete control of Freetown as the surviving Jenkins family members prepare for their last stand.
“Farmhand’s been a labor of love from its inception. And I’ve been hard at work making sure this final arc gives readers the most satisfying payoff to this long-running story possible. These are by far the bloodiest, most intense six issues I’ve ever done, and I can’t wait for folks to see how it ends.”
The Farmhand series follows Jedidiah Jenkins, a simple farmer. But his cash crop isn’t corn or soy. He grows fast-healing, highly-customizable human organs. For years, Jed’s organic transplants have brought healing to many, but deep in the soil of the Jenkins Family Farm something sinister has taken root. Today this dark seed will begin to sprout, and the Jenkins family will be the first to taste its bitter fruit.
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