The Lonesome Hunters Library Edition

by Tyler Crook

From Russ Manning award-winning and Eisner-nominated Harrow County co-creator Tyler Crook comes this supernatural fantasy about loss, power, and destiny.

An old and out-of-practice monster hunter in hiding crosses paths with a young girl that forces him to confront these chaotic creatures. As the beasts invade their tenement, they set off on a supernatural road trip to stop these ancient evils in a story that explores the ways that youth informs adulthood and how early traumas can haunt us in old age.

Collects Lonesome Hunters series I and II together for the first time in a deluxe, library edition hardcover book with a dustjacket and a new cover.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2024

Reviews

[Philip James Ahlschlager · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, atmospheric AF! Mr. Crook is on top of his game. Can’t wait for the next installment.

[Alex Sarll]

Tyler Crook's gift for catching the look of America's backwaters, and the strange things they hide, was always the big draw on the often frustrating Harrow County, and here he gets to write as well as illustrate a solo take on similar territory. The watercolour skies, mysterious foliage and mottled walls aren't a big departure, nor the careworn yet often humane faces and weary postures of the people, but the supernatural menaces hew more closely to the natural world than Harrow's haints. The first story picks up on the menace of magpies, thieves and ominous forecasters that they are, and what exactly they might be up to; it benefits from my having begun it right after coming eye to eye with one of the creepy Cretaceous fuckers at the kitchen window. Alas, wolves have yet to be reintroduced to the Great North Wood, so I wasn't similarly primed for the second tale, but if anything, having established its world, it can do more, go deeper - though I do hope wherever the series goes next won't end up as hopelessly mired in its own mythology as Harrow became. For now, at least, it's all suitably spooky, and that despite having the sort of leads who'd rather not be there and are only reluctantly pushed into action, something with which I often struggle. It helps that they make such a sweet pairing: Howard, an old man (and older still than he looks) who's spent a long time trying to hide from the responsibility of his magic sword*; and Lupe, the girl whose magpie predicament drove him finally to draw it again, and who's now making the best of a bad job by trying to get him into her favourite anime.

*Which, it has to be said, does look more like a massive chisel.

(Edelweiss ARC)

[Camilo Guerra · Rating 5 out of 5]

-IT DOESN`T MAKE ANY SENSE !

Un viejito que se ve lo mas tranquilo del mundo posee una arma mística y sobrenatural, mas poderosa que un arma nuclear y una adolescente latina que no tiene nada de familia, terminan convirtiéndose en aliados en una escapatoria contra seres sobrenaturales y fanáticos religiosos.

LO BUENO: Recuerdo ver un video de Dark Horse donde mostraban a Tyler haciendo una pagina de Harrow Country y por dios, fanático del tipo, y eso se mantiene al día de hoy, donde se ve que es una maquina con un arte hermoso, el tipo acá regala unas paginas dobles que te quitan el aliento, como el niño lobo con la lobo hombre atrás, ¿Qué es esto?, ¿Por qué no están vendiendo laminas del arte de este tipo?, y la narrativa y lo que cuenta, tiene un merito muy grande, esa escena en la que la madre esta cocinando y hablando y zas...se pone enferma, es de una maestría para aplaudir, y los diálogos de Lupe son muy buenos, y quieres que todo le salga bien, quieres consentirle y hace mucho no sentía ese nivel de empatía con una adolescente en ficción.

LO MALO: El tipo lleva mucho trabajando con Cullen Bunn y se le nota lo que le aprendió, como su adolescente es calcada a la de Harrow County, el anciano tiene rasgos de ese viejo de Manor Black...y la construcciòn de equipo es MUY,MUY CULLEN BUNN...y ese rasgo en que pasan cosas, pero no muchas y vez que pasaron 09 números, pudiendo ser contado todo esto en la mitad de espacio.

[Jack Reickel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! Mister Crook blew me away with this one. After enjoying his illustrative work so much in Harrow County and BPRD (Hellboy) and Black Hammer, I thought he'd earned my taking a chance on a story I knew nothing about, other than Tyler Crook as the writer/illustrator.

The artwork is his premium norm, and I am so impressed and appreciative of the writing -- the story, the dialogue, the characterization is all top-notch. Like most excellent works of sequential art, its greatest flaw is that it demands moar. Moar drawing, moar pages, moar books, MOAR STORY.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really hope Crook continues this story. It's about an old man with a sword that makes him immortal and a young girl who has lost her family. The old man is a coward in hiding until the girl in the apartment next door gets in trouble with some magical magpies. Meanwhile they are also being pursued by the crazy church the old man used to be apart of. Crook's art is great. So is the story. This is my second time reading through the first 2 miniseries and it was just as good this go around.

[Rebecca Alexx · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lonesome hunters is about a retired monster hunter who gets dragged back into this life by a young girl. The story is a fun fantasy road trip but the selling point is Tyler Crook’s art. Much like ‘Harrow County’, the use of watercolour really captures the environment and creates an atmosphere. I love the characters and the world and can’t wait to read more.

[Leni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love the art.