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    Harrow County #16
    Released by: Dark Horse Comics
    Released on: September 14th, 2015.
    Written by: Cullen Bunn
    Illustrated by: Tyler Crook
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    The Meeting Lodge only 'exists' in the human world during the conclave, it's supposed to be sanctuary for otherworldly beings, the kind that are trying to convince Emmy to go all in with them. Emmy gets a bad vibe from the place.

    When the issue opens up, she's telling her 'family' that she won't let them hurt the good people that live in Harrow County, the place she's spent most of her days, the place that she has, until now, called home. They tell her that's a shame, given that so many of those supposedly good people are nothing more than some of Hester Beck's creations, and therefore not even really human at all. Best to kill them all and raze the land.

    They intend to clean up Hester's mess, whether Emmy is in on this or not. They leave Emmy in the house to go off and do the 'Devil's business' and when she tries to follow them, she finds that exiting the lodge doesn't land her in Harrow County, but in something the others all the Waste. She's a prisoner now, at least temporarily, stuck here with Odessa. And while she's trapped in the lodge, her 'family' spread out across Harrow County to sever her ties to the community - ties to those that are human and inhuman alike. It doesn't go as planned for them, but neither do things play out the way Emmy expects them to, especially when that boy with no skin decides to get protective…the darkness can be overwhelming, but sometimes if you don't fear the shadows, you'll feel warmth.

    This issue would seem to bring to a close the storyline involving the 'family' that tries to indoctrinate Emmy into their ranks but of course, we don't really know where things are going from here, so that could be way off base. For now, however, it seems like there's some closure to Emmy's current plight and that things just might be set back to normal, whatever normal is in Harrow County. Bunn's story takes things in a somewhat expected direction, which is unusual given how many times this series has been able to pull the rug out from under us, but it seems fitting, the way it finishes up. Sometimes things do play out the way you figure they will and sometimes that's for a reason that will mean more later on down the road.

    Tyler Crook's artwork is still great sixteen issues later. He's beautifully colored style brings life to the interesting cast of characters conjured up by Bunn's scripts, but for every page that looks quaint and wholesome, there's another page where great evil is portrayed in typically unsettling fashion. The visual contrast that he employs in this book is a big part of what makes it so compelling as we see some seriously sinister deeds play out against such a seemingly innocent, all-American backdrop. It probably seems like we gush about this book every time a new issue comes out, but that's only because it's so damn good.

    In the back pages we get a few pages of letters, as well as a Tales Of Harrow County one pagers from Tyler Crook, Brian Hurtt and Matt Kindt entitled The Butler - these are always enjoyable and this entry, like the earlier ones, is of course worth reading.








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