2) Harrow County
Cullen Bunn is a writer I’ve grown to like more and more recently and Harrow County is his best work to date. There’s a great southern gothic atmosphere to the book. It’s not afraid to go for pure horror but at the same time it’s peppered with jet black humor.
Based on Bunn’s own serialized short fiction, Harrow County makes an extremely impressive leap to the comic book page. The artwork is absolutely stunning and creates such a powerful mood and atmosphere. It’s a deep south, grim fairy tale, which is something we haven’t seen much of since the days of Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead.
There’s a whole town full of strange characters to be explored, but the book manages to avoid being Twin Peaks 2.0 and instead carves out its own corner of the current indie comic landscape. In fact, it’s slated to be adapted into a TV series for the SyFy network, although there hasn’t been much news in the year since the announcement was made. Even if it doesn’t come to pass, the comic is more than fulfilling enough on its own.
