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    Harrow County #8
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: December 9th, 2015.
    Written by: Cullen Bunn
    Illustrated by: Tyler Crook
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    Hot on the heels of the announcement that the series has been picked up to be turned into a TV series on SyFy comes the eighth issue of Bunn and Crook's masterful tale of backwoods horror. An Eisner-esque splash page opens this chapter up as we see Emmy fearful of the haints that have surrounded her in the woods. She orders them away, but it's no use - Kammi walks out of the shadows and makes it very clear that she's in charge now. The haints don't answer to Emmy anymore. But Kammi isn't out to hurt Emmy, she wants her to join her - 'to rule together.'

    Emmy knows better and as such, she declines… and then, for her own safety, she runs. Kammi sends her butler after her, instructing him to punish her in his own way so that when he's done with her she can punish her in hers. And as Emmy runs, the ghosts give chase. Far from powerless, Emmy heads to a part of the woods that she knows best and where she has some allies. In the ensuing chaos she's able to escape, briefly, until she comes face to face with that butler, but again, she finds help in a strange place.

    Once she's out of the woods, she bursts into the house where she alerts her father…

    In what is the most intense issue in the series so far, this is where it all hits the fan for Emmy and Kammi. The conflict that's been growing over the past few issues comes to a pretty huge boil in this installment and the payoff of that buildup is completely worth it. The way in which those threads of the story are resolved (though honestly, it's probably a temporary resolution rather than a permanent fix) works perfectly given the background information that we have on Emmy, Kammi and their 'mother' and Bunn's story really ramps up the tension here. At the same time, if this issue is more focused on horror than on character development, we still get enough of those 'quiet moments' that each issue of Harrow County seems to do so well, those little bits and pieces wherein Emmy and her father bond over simple conversation for example. So it's not all flash and sizzle and scary stuff - it's just really strong storytelling.

    As to the artwork, Tyler Crook has been knocking each issue of Harrow County out of the park but in this issue in particular he's outdone himself. There are some genuinely eerie moments in this issue that are illustrated with such cinematic style that you can almost see the panels moving. The use of color couldn't be better and the character design for both the 'human' and not so human creatures alike is killer.

    Additionally, this issue contains a humorous single page Tales Of Harrow County backup story called Mold written by Crook and illustrated by Simon Roy and the Greetings From Harrow County letters pages section (worth reading as always).






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