Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Harrow County #14

Collapse
X
Collapse
  •  
    Ian Jane
    Administrator

  • Harrow County #14



    Harrow County #14
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: July 13th, 2015.
    Written by: Cullen Bunn
    Illustrated by: Tyler Crook
    Purchase From Amazon

    When issue #14 begins, we learn about Emmy's mother. She doesn't remember her very well, or the night that she left home. We see her wrestle with what she feels she needs to do, Emmy, an infant, lies in her crib while her mother drops the knife to the floor. The woman apologizes to the baby she knows won't understand her. She wanted to believe she could do this, raise her as her own, but she knows the truth and she can't do it. As Isaac, Emmy's pa, slept that night, Emmy's mother ran away… never to be seen again.

    But in the present day, Emmy and Bernice are still in the cornfield - they've found Clinton, he's being held captive in a sense by a strange man who seems to have powers that rival or even surpass Emmy's own abilities. The girls, and Emmy's skinless familiar, see footprints but no body. The man tells the girls that it's Mildred, and that when Mildred goes a wandering, bad things happen. The man lets Clinton go, Emmy tells Bernice to take him home and has her familiar follow them just in case.

    And then she talks to this man, who tells her he's named Levi. He tells Emmy that he and Mildred are her family, that he's a psychopomp and that for that reason he knows a lot more about her than she realizes. His job is to lead the dead to the afterlife. She follows him through the field and they wind up at a massive plantation that Emmy knows shouldn't be there. Levi tells her once their meeting is done, it'll go away again. Emmy heads inside and feels no danger, even feeling a kinship to a woman she sees in a painting, a woman whose face has been covered over.

    And then Levin introduces Emmy to 'our kin' - Willa, Mildred, Caine, Corbin and Odessa. They tell Emmy 'you're one of us' and tell her that they want to help her.

    With this issue Bunn comes closer to telling us the truth about Emmy's background. By introducing her mother and then, towards the end (we won't spoil things), showing us what might have actually happened to her, we're given a few more hints as to what's really going on here. It ties into the pre-established relationship that Emmy has with her pa in interesting ways and it makes us wonder just what's really going on there. But then there's Levi and the others. Emmy can't help but be drawn to these 'people' no matter how strange they might be - the lure of knowledge is too strong for her to resist. So yeah, more great storytelling from Bunn here. And Crook's art is just as gorgeous as it has been from the start, working the beautiful and the macabre in amongst the peaceful and the unsettling in that strange, horrifyingly folksy way that plays such a massive part in this book's success. It's dark, twisted stuff to be sure but it has heart, and each issue seems to be just as good if not better than the last.

    This issue also features a few pages of letters and another installment of Tales Of Harrow County, this time from Tyler Crook, Brian Hurtt and Matt Kindt.








      Posting comments is disabled.

    Latest Articles

    Collapse

    Working...
    X