Friday, July 26, 2019

Rob Guillory’s Farmhand, Volume 1: Reap What Was Sown by Rob Guillory

(pb; 2019: graphic novel, collecting issues #1—5 of the Image-imprint comic book series. Publisher: Image.)

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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