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Joe Hill's Rain #3
Joe Hill's Rain #3
Having survived a violent run-in with the Comet Cult, Honeysuckle and her new companion—MMA fighter Marc Despot—find themselves in an even tighter spot: young Templeton Blake has followed them into the spreading apocalypse. They hitch a ride to Denver with a friendly highway patrol officer, but the prisoners he’s transporting have different plans…
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 16, 2022
About the author
Joe Hill
481 books31.4k followersJoe Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman... which was also the winner of a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel.
He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.
He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.
He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, storms into bookstores in October of 2017.
He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.
He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.
He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, storms into bookstores in October of 2017.
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March 20, 2022
3.5
SOBBING RN TEMPLETON
SOBBING RN TEMPLETON
June 18, 2022
probably not gonna finish these… i don’t love the writing
March 17, 2022
This is such an interesting concept for a story and I’m really liking it so far! I think this was probably the weakest issue for me so far but I think that’s just because it was kinda dialogue heavy, but still great!
June 29, 2026
“I don’t think the books got it exactly right about grief. Sure, it comes over you in waves. But there’s so much more to it than that. Facing grief is like standing on a beach and looking out over the water. Some waves are small and lap at your feet…some waves are huge and engulf you completely. The best you can do is pull yourself away from the shoreline…inch by inch, day by day…so fewer waves can touch you.”
Now I have to admit some areas of this art really started to remind me of superjail, which is a strange compliment lol, but the amazing way this series make you think about your own experiences of grief while comparing to the insanity of crystal shards raining from the sky is quite impressive. Last we left off we found that Temp caught up to Honeysuckle and her new wrestler friend to try and help. Now clearly he shouldn’t be here but he also wants to go with her to Denver and he has already made it an impressive way here, so even though she admits it’s partially out of selfishness she permits Temp to come with them. Making Marc promise that if anything happens to her he will take Temp back home.
As they travel the rain seems to shift in unexpected ways from bald the size of a thumb to a drizzle of crystal slivers that look like fiberglass. The last few downpours finally knock out cell service, as the group spends their night underneath an overpass around a fire discussing what could have caused this. From climate change to cloud seeding, and how Temp believes that ghosts will come back next. Although it’s clear his poor young exhausted mind surrounded by his mother’s inability to accept his father’s crash as a suicide has played into that belief, the idea does serve as a reminder that they will be battling ghosts for a long time.
Once the sky cleared up and they started moving again, then came arose a large tractor from a local prison using inmates to load bodies along the road into the back with only a few guards and one driving the tractor. Honeysuckle has grown accustomed to only saying what she needs to get through a conversation as to not “complicate” things, so an explanation that they are going to Denver to see family is more than enough to gain an invite into the tractor for a ride. Temp runs behind a car to use the bathroom as Honeysuckle and the corrections officer continue to talk. They are loading all the bodies to the ice center, where Honeysuckle has fond memories of Disney in ice, and it seems he has a lot more access to the news as he mentions a 50/50 chance they will have boots on the ground in Georgia (the European country) as that is where the chemist who dreamed up clouds raining nails is based out of. Which also happens to be a former US outfit, hmmm almost as if the US was probably developing this as a weapon in the first place only to have it blow back on them. Honeysuckle thinks about to idea of retribution, a sentiment found commonly post 9-11, but she doesn’t feel the desire to Beth those who hurt them, only that she is antsy to get home like she is missing something. But that thought is interrupted with the sound of one of the other guards firing at their inmates running away. Suddenly a much larger inmate comes behind the driver and rips his throat out, takes his gun and then asks if anyone can drive the tractor. When Marc tries to get him to stand down, he grabs Temp, who just came back from the bathroom, and holds him hostage as he demands to know who can drive the tractor. Honeysuckle offers herself up to drive the tractor if he lets temp go. Now with a hostage swap underway, honeysuckle reminds Marc of his promise to take Temp home. And as the issue comes to an end it seems this inmate is ready to go to Canada. Geez.
Now I have to admit some areas of this art really started to remind me of superjail, which is a strange compliment lol, but the amazing way this series make you think about your own experiences of grief while comparing to the insanity of crystal shards raining from the sky is quite impressive. Last we left off we found that Temp caught up to Honeysuckle and her new wrestler friend to try and help. Now clearly he shouldn’t be here but he also wants to go with her to Denver and he has already made it an impressive way here, so even though she admits it’s partially out of selfishness she permits Temp to come with them. Making Marc promise that if anything happens to her he will take Temp back home.
As they travel the rain seems to shift in unexpected ways from bald the size of a thumb to a drizzle of crystal slivers that look like fiberglass. The last few downpours finally knock out cell service, as the group spends their night underneath an overpass around a fire discussing what could have caused this. From climate change to cloud seeding, and how Temp believes that ghosts will come back next. Although it’s clear his poor young exhausted mind surrounded by his mother’s inability to accept his father’s crash as a suicide has played into that belief, the idea does serve as a reminder that they will be battling ghosts for a long time.
Once the sky cleared up and they started moving again, then came arose a large tractor from a local prison using inmates to load bodies along the road into the back with only a few guards and one driving the tractor. Honeysuckle has grown accustomed to only saying what she needs to get through a conversation as to not “complicate” things, so an explanation that they are going to Denver to see family is more than enough to gain an invite into the tractor for a ride. Temp runs behind a car to use the bathroom as Honeysuckle and the corrections officer continue to talk. They are loading all the bodies to the ice center, where Honeysuckle has fond memories of Disney in ice, and it seems he has a lot more access to the news as he mentions a 50/50 chance they will have boots on the ground in Georgia (the European country) as that is where the chemist who dreamed up clouds raining nails is based out of. Which also happens to be a former US outfit, hmmm almost as if the US was probably developing this as a weapon in the first place only to have it blow back on them. Honeysuckle thinks about to idea of retribution, a sentiment found commonly post 9-11, but she doesn’t feel the desire to Beth those who hurt them, only that she is antsy to get home like she is missing something. But that thought is interrupted with the sound of one of the other guards firing at their inmates running away. Suddenly a much larger inmate comes behind the driver and rips his throat out, takes his gun and then asks if anyone can drive the tractor. When Marc tries to get him to stand down, he grabs Temp, who just came back from the bathroom, and holds him hostage as he demands to know who can drive the tractor. Honeysuckle offers herself up to drive the tractor if he lets temp go. Now with a hostage swap underway, honeysuckle reminds Marc of his promise to take Temp home. And as the issue comes to an end it seems this inmate is ready to go to Canada. Geez.
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February 19, 2025
I couldn’t believe how bad this was. The protagonist draws wild conclusions with very little context like she’s Sherlock Holmes halfway through. By the 3rd act she’s just solving crimes by looking at a crime scene one time and then avoiding death the next. It’s like the writer got bored and just finished it as quickly as possible. Awful.
April 21, 2022
Did a good job of keeping the plot moving.
May 29, 2022
It ain't ever easy
June 17, 2022
Gotta love Templeton. <3
January 11, 2023
Honeysuckle is a beautifully relatable character that did not deserve all the heart ache and hurt she went through. At least she gained a pretty great kid.
June 10, 2023
Excelente comic de horror y ciencia ficción. Espero leer el resto pronto.
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