From the back cover
“Jedediah Jenkins is 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 hve brought
healing to many, but deep beneath the soil of the Jenkins Family Farm there is
something sinister taking root. Today this dark seed will begin to sprout, and
the Jenkins family will be the first to taste its bitter fruit.
“From Eisner Award-winning artist Rob Guillory (Chew),
comes a new darkly comedic series about science gone sinister and agriculture
gone apocalyptic.
“Nature is a Mother.”
Review
Farmhand is
an entertaining, fast-paced comic book series with its eye-catching art, well-written
and relatable characters, and storyline-inherent multilayered themes of generational
conflict, cutting-edge science vs. religious faith, as well as the oft-told,
nature-flouting lessons of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. These elements make
Farmhand an intriguing, familial, horrific and science fiction-ish read,
one that I am glad I own. (I am picky about what I keep on my bookshelf.)
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