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Published by: Image Comics
Released on: Feb. 4, 2015
Writer: Joshua Williamson
Artist: Mike Henderson
Cover artist: Mike Henderson
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Crowe the bus driver has finally lost it. Decades of driving kids to school, kids who sometimes turn into serial killers, has finally taken its toll on him and he feels it is his duty as a man of God to save the souls of his current busload of kids. Water washes everything away, so that's what he decides needs to be done. The souls kids on the bus must be saved, and driving the bus into a manmade lake is the solution he thinks God has given him. Of course Finch and Crane don't agree with that, nor would anyone else in their right minds. With some fast and reluctant help from the local priest, who is not a very nice person himself, they locate Crowe but it might be too late.
The two crime-fighters make their heroic moves (killing a busload of kids is going too far for Joshua Williamson perhaps?), but not everyone leaves the water alive. And while Finch was under the water he saw something, and although it deepens the mystery even further, it's pretty damn cool. And he's not the only one who saw something at the lake. One of the children ran off into the woods and was met by someone or something, a being that obviously has a secret, but that is left for another day.
Lots of things go down in this issue, mostly just making the story even more complex and layered, but they contribute some great moments in the talr. And there is a great turn of events, though short-lived for now, that you probably won't see coming. It may even make your eyebrows raise and your head nod in a “yeeeahhh…†kind of way.
The cliffhanger in this chapter makes for an awesome book end to what is another excellent issue of Nailbiter, and hopefully things go the way the last panel suggests they will. But Williamson's horror mystery is anything but predictable so there's no point in guessing what the pages of issue 11 will bring.
