One year after the well-received first issue of Rob Guillory's comic book series Farmhand hit store shelves, it has been announced that a series based on the comic is in development at AMC, the home of the comic book-inspired series The Walking Dead.
Published by Image Comics, Farmhand tells a story of "science gone sinister and agriculture gone apocalyptic":
Jedidiah Jenkins is a farmer – but his cash crop isn't corn or soy. Jed grows fast-healing, plug-and-play human organs. Lose a finger? Need a new liver? He's got you covered. Unfortunately, strange produce isn't the only thing Jed's got buried. Deep in the soil of the Jenkins Family Farm, something dark has taken root, and it's beginning to bloom.
Guillory writes and illustrates the source material, in collaboration with letterer Kody Chamberlian and colorist Taylor Wells.
LaToya Morgan, who worked on AMC's recently cancelled "genre-bending martial arts series" Into the Badlands as a writer, co-executive producer, and supervising producer, will be overseeing the development of Farmhand.
The creation of this series is part of AMC's Scripted Inclusion Initiative, "which aims to bring diverse emerging writers onto AMC’s programming slate."
I haven't read any issues of Farmhand, but judging by the very positive reactions to them it sounds like a show based on that comic will be something worth paying attention to.