Plastic Farm #7

Continuing through the Plastic Farm series, which my wife brought home from SPACE.

Title: Plastic Farm
Issue: #7
Date: October 2004
Publisher: Plastic Farm Press
Writer: Rafer Roberts, Jake Warrenfeltz
Artist: Rafer Roberts, Jake Warrenfeltz

The seventh chapter of Plastic Farm opens in the snowed-in airport bar where Chester Carter has been sharing stories. A new patron has a story of his own, a rags-to-riches-to-rags tale involving an odd anatomical quirk.

From there, we switch to the tale of a female killer-for-hire who's been stalking her target and may have gotten too close.

And in the third story, a young man and his grandfather encounter a mysterious aviator out in the farmlands of the midwestern USA.

The first story didn't do much for me, but I really liked the other two. Rafer Roberts does a great job infusing his hit-woman with a very believable personality. In a genre where assassins for hire are found on the pages of hundreds, maybe thousands of comics, this character was one of the very few examples of the archetype that really stood out.

The final story stood on its own very well. It was a really touching tale with some excellent dialogue.

Two hits and a miss still make this a very good issue.

Rating: 7.5/10