![]() ![]() What exactly are the characters’ storylines/motivations/goals? Zeke wants to reconnect with his dad – is that it? Jed’s… chuntling along with his organ-growing, easily dealing with the occasional problem? Andrea’s up to something but… why? And the others – eh, they got nothing. Which segues into the unclear overall storyline. ![]() But who’s the protagonist – who’re we meant to be rooting for? There’s a lot of characters: Jed, the mercurial patriarch of the Jenkins family who walks the line between hero and villain a la Walter White his estranged son Zeke (essentially Guillory, being a black thirtysomething comics artist) and his family Andrea, his daughter and business partner who’s got some secrets and a whole mess of others. The main problem for me was the lack of focus in general. Surprisingly, there’s some controversy around his franken-farming and he has to contend with multiple rivals in the form of industrial espionage, jelly rednecks, demented former colleagues and the gosh-dern-gov’mint! And then there’s the problem with his crops – they’re… changing… their new owners…!Ĭhew artist Rob Guillory writes and draws his first creator-owned Image series, Farmhand, and it’s not bad but you can tell Guillory isn’t the most experienced writer from the somewhat clumsy execution of the story. ![]() ![]() Jedidiah Jenkins has figgered out a way to grow human body parts, like crops, on his farm, ready for transplantation. And on that farm he grew some human body parts, ![]()
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