Sheriff Clara Bronson is a bit tied up, as she's been taken prisoner by escaped criminal Clay and his lady friend Annabeth. Clay heads out to get the money from an armored car heist Clara has. Or so Annabeth thinks. Clara explains he's actually here for his son. Who is Clara's son, or rather, Clara's sister's son.
The flashback plays out over this and the next issue, but for now we see that Fiona was very excited to pull a robbery with her beau that would set them and their son up for life. Clara has, entirely reasonable doubts about this, and Fiona basically questions her right to judge anyone else's decisions. Clara can't hold a job, can't even hold her nephew. Always with the excuses. Ah, the bond between siblings.
Back in the present day, Bronson's old boss Lieutenant Ford is trying to find her and Clay ASAP. Unfortunately, Bronson's only deputy recently became Mayor, so now Ford's deputized the local schoolteacher, who is also an artificial human (or "artie"). Ford doesn't know any informants here, but Luken does, the father of one of his students. The man, who looks a bit like a past-his-prime Hellboy declares he's not a snitch, but agrees to make some calls in exchange for a guarantee his son will pass all his tests the rest of the year. I wish my dad could have functioned as a snitch during my high school years, instead of being one of my teachers. Might have done a lot better in Pre-Calculus that way.
Zeke, meanwhile is hiding out at an old scrapyard with Missus Sewell, a local woman who acts as Zeke's nanny or babysitter. Zeke doesn't know what's going on, so he's just excited to camp out. He's significantly less excited when someone shoots Missus Sewell, even if that someone turns out to be his father. Zeke has more than one protector tonight, though, as the artie named Ishmael, who lives alone out in the wilderness arrives. He really should have just shot Clay, rather than announcing himself.
Clay's not impressed, pointing out he was locked up for killing 17 men (probably not something to admit in front of your son), but they never bothered counting how many artificial humans he killed. Ishmael had been a pretty solid badass up to that point in the story, but he gets his butt kicked emphatically in the next issue. His face ends up looking like a pug's, or a manatee's.
[3rd longbox, 6th comic. Copperhead #16, by Jay Faerber (writer), Drew Moss (artist), Ron Riley (colorist), Thomas Mauer (letterer)]
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