Saturday, December 02, 2023

Saturday Splash Page #101

 
"Another Night on the Farm," in Tales of Terror #1, by Beau Smith (writer), Manuel Vidal (artist), Adriano Honrato Lucas (colorist), Robbie Robbins (letterer)

In 2004, IDW did a horror anthology one-shot with stories from a bunch of different creative teams, involving books they were publishing. Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith did a 30 Days of Night entry, for example, and Beau Smith teamed up with Manuel Vidal for a short Wynonna Earp story.

That's the only one I've read, because it was included in the Wynonna Earp: Strange Inheritance collection I picked up years ago, so I doubt it's representative of the book as a whole. Marshal Earp is called in to investigate a wheat field where several murders have taken place and the wheat grows higher after each. The family that originally settled it was murdered by one of their farm hands 100 years ago, but the truth of what's happening turns out to be far more mundane. Not Scooby-Doo, "guy in a rubber mask", but from Wynonna Earp's perspective, it's pretty tame and not worth much effort.

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