Frank At Home On The Farm #3

Frank At Home On The Farm #3

Scout Comics 2021

Written by Jordan Thomas

Illustrated by Clark Bint

Lettered by Lettersquids

Frank thought things couldn't get any stranger. Well, the animals have something to say about that. The storm has well and truly arrived, and now Frank must face a whole new world of horrors as the mystery of his missing family spirals out of control.

This is seriously one of the most messed up, interesting and lord knows what’s happening comics stories that I have ever read. It is so fascinating and much like Anna Nicole when she was alive it’s a trainwreck you cannot look away from to save your life. It really is damn near impossible to put down in words how wonderful life is with this in the world. The more of this that we see the more disturbing it becomes and the less and less we seem to understand exactly what is happening here. Has Frank returned home from the war and lost all his marbles so that he’s imagining everything except that was attacked by a wolf and he does indeed do something this issue that falls squarely back upon his knowledge from his army days. Did he fall down the rabbit hole or is this all just a dream?

The way that this is being told is mind blowingly sensational! The story & plot development we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented extremely well. I really have no idea what is truly happening and that in and of itself is a huge draw to my enjoyment of this and as the story constantly moves forward and Frank questions his own sanity the character development really is truly outrageous. The pacing is great and as it takes us through the pages revealing the twists & turns along the way we are gripped in a vice like grip by the story and have no intention of trying to break free.

If your crazy and you know it clap your hands, clap clap, if your crazy and you know it and your not afraid to show it, if your crazy and you know it clap your hands, clap clap. So I love the way we see this being structured and how the layers within the story keep growing like Boston Ivy. This almost serves as a distraction but a beautiful one. The way that we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow is absolutely delightful.

The interiors here are crazy good. The linework that we see is exceptional and how the varying weights and techniques are being utilised to create this level and quality of detail work is mindbogglingly brilliant. The closeups on the pig and when he has his hoof on his chin, I mean c’mon it’s incredibly beautiful and yet disturbingly dark at the same time. Because of what this is and how we see it i’m not even mad about the way backgrounds are or are not utilised here. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show such a brilliant eye for storytelling. The colour work we see is phenomenal. The way that we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is stupendous. Let’s talk a second about that panel where it looks like film is overheated and burning holes into it, that is without a shadow of a doubt one of the best panels in comics today.

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Smart, intelligent and infinitely fascinating this is the kind of book you won’t see anywhere else but Scout Comics. While it may appear that the inmates are running the asylum all I know is that i’m ready to be suited up and put in with Frank at this point.