Freaks of the Heartland #2

The second chapter of Steve Niles and Greg Ruth's rural horror series opens with a haunting cover: a hulking, overalls-clad figure looms over a barbed-wire fence beside a weathered wooden cross, rendered in Greg Ruth's brooding, painterly style against a gray, foreboding sky. The atmosphere is pure heartland dread — isolated, earthy, and quietly menacing in a way that feels closer to Southern Gothic than superhero fare. Dark Horse delivered something genuinely unsettling here in 2004, and this issue promises the story is only deepening.