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    Harrow County #11
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: April 12th, 2015.
    Written by: Cullen Bunn
    Illustrated by: Tyler Crook
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    Bernie peers into the window of Lady Lovey's cellar and is shocked by what she sees - hundreds of poisonous snakes in mason jars litter the shelves of the old woman's basement. She sees Early on the floor, likely dead, as Lovey snatches the one serpent off the floor that made its way out of a broken jar.

    Outside, Bernice and Clinton know they shouldn't be seeing this - they're just about to head home and get help when they're accosted by a giant possum. When Clinton screams Lovey hears him, gets distracted, and is bitten by the serpent she's been trying to wrangle. The kids run off into the dark woods. When they light their lantern so they can see where they're going, they come face to face with a tree filled with more possums staring them down. Bernice knows they're 'familiars' and that they're doing a witches bidding.

    Just then, Lovey grabs Bernice and pulls her back to her house. Clinton runs, terrified and sure that Bernice is done for. But when Lovey gets the girl back to her cabin she sees Early standing there, healthy as an ox. Bernice realizes she and Clinton were wrong about Lovey, that the fact she's been bitten is their fault - and Lovey wants Bernice to make it right. Before that happens, Lovey tells Bernice her story, how she wasn't always a recluse and how Hester Beck showed up and put bad thoughts into her friends' minds before she could drive her away and how a woman named Odessa taught her how to use snakes for different purposes and why she wound up their jailer.

    Bernice goes back out into the dark woods to catch the escaped snakes

    It wasn't too much of a shock to find that Lovey was a misunderstood of recluse, out there doing good and not evil like so many of the townsfolk assumed, nor was it that much of a surprise to find out that, like so many of the characters in this story, her life was changed for the worse by Hester Beck. That's not really where the suspense in this issue stems from and you don't get the impression that it's supposed to. Where the mystery lies is in how the townsfolk are going to react to what Clinton tells them and how or really if Bernice will be able to fill the old lady's shoes - she has been bitten by a poisonous snake and she isn't exactly a spring chicken. It's interesting stuff, Bunn as always writes these small town horror stories better than anyone else in the business and Crook's art somehow manages to keep dazzling readers one issue after the next.

    Another Tales Of Harrow County one pager, written by Crook and illustrated by Kate Leth, and a few text pages telling the tale of Fear And Love Of The Devil Himself written by 'Ma'at Crook' round out another superb issue. Harrow County continues to be the best horror comic on the stands right now.








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