Farmhand, Vol. 2: Thorne in the Flesh
Created, written & drawn by Rob Guillory: colors by Taylor Wells
Image Comics, 2019
The second installment opens with a new crisis: former patients of Jedidiah's plant organ replacement treatment have been converging on the town in the hundreds, drawn to the town as their cures have begun to mutate. Freetown residents call them "Transplants." Newly elected Mayor Monica Thorne assures everyone the situation is under control. But mutated animals keep showing up, many of them in the wild far away from the Farm's supposed total quarantine. Zeke is convinced that Jed has lost control. Thorne reveals herself as the Maker of the Transplants (but not publicly). Zeke joins the Farm as their Communications Consultant, and his wife accepts Thorne's offer of a job on her new Special City Planning Committee. Still plenty of family conflict as well, so the story maintains its core strengths even as new possibilities are introduced.
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