It was arguably the best part of Chew and his style is remarkably eye-catching, imaginative and playful (not to mention the gleefully sarky comments inserted in the backgrounds!). That said, it’s great to see Guillory’s art again. Besides the monster dog and an attempted abduction, it’s an entire book of table-setting which doesn’t even set the table all that well! And then there’s the overall lack of anything happening. Guillory hints at sinister goings-on but doesn’t really give any real reason to the reader what the implications are. Or even why the organs turning on its transplantees are a bad thing – are they shortening their lives? Turning them into monsters? One dog gets monstrified but nobody else is affected quite so dramatically so was that a freak one-off? I suppose Monica Thorne, the elderly Poison Ivy, is the villain but only because that’s how she’s framed – I’m not really sure why she’s the villain though. 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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