Written by Grant Morrison, Alex Child
Art by Naomi Franquiz
Published by BOOM! Studios
The girls of Proctor Valley Road just can’t catch a break.
It’s hard to say which is more threatening: whatever is out there at the end of the road, or the school and the law coming after them.
The school principal insists on continuing to bust their chops.
He’s determined to break August, Rylee, Jennie, and Cora and get what he is certain is the truth out of them. They must have been running their three friends across the border to avoid the draft.
What other explanation is there for three draft-age boys who go missing?
Even when Rylee tries to tell him the truth of what’s out there, he’s of course unwilling to listen. What self-respecting principal would actually believe in desert monsters?
With little other recourse, Jennie pushes them into research. Surely what they’re experiencing has been around for ages.
Hours in the library don’t turn up anything. Awful things happened, sure, but there’s nothing that connects the events.
Good thing that an eavesdropping librarian can offer some direction.
Armed with the librarian’s stories–and a police cruiser she boosted from her mom’s new boyfriend–August heads out solo to Proctor Valley Road to keep up the search for Skip, Bobby, and Bruce. She’s seen the monsters out there, sure, but she isn’t willing to give up hope that they are alive out there, somewhere.
Although Jennie, Rylee, and Cora may have been hoping for a night where they could forget about the boys and the monsters for a while, August rolls up on them. They’re with Jennie’s brother, Mikey, in the desert.
Mikey, understandably, has strong doubts about what the girls claim they are seeing out there. Still, he doesn’t discourage them when they hop in August’s stolen cruiser to join her search.
They will find so much more than they bargained for.
Oh, and that school principal who’s been giving them the hard time? Well, he’s determined to find out for himself where those boys went.
