God Country #2 Review

Writer: Donny Cates / Artist: Geoff Shaw / Image Comics Clarity can be such a beautiful thing, as Emmet rediscovers this issue in God Country. We get to see Emmet as the person he was before the Alzheimer’s took over and had him feeling lost. I mentioned before how the pacing can feel a bit fast with the majestic feats taking place, and this issue we see Emmet wielding Valofax in order to fix his house that was wrecked in the storm (mad foreshadowing on that house being fixed, by the way). Not only is this sword cool-as-fuck lookin’ and serves as its own Home Depot, but this muh fucking blade has a history unto itself, which we discover when a god comes to take it back.

We meet Aristus, who is a God of War on some peaceful shit as he arrives asking Emmet to hand the sword back over to him… but Emmet got some uber swag ’cause he ain’t handing it over. They mentioned last issue you could ask anyone in Texas and they’d tell you that Emmet was a god when it came to throwing hands. I don’t know what level of fisticuffs you have for you to talk shit to an actual god, but apparently Emmet is on it. Volofax steps in (hell yeah, it talks too) to set the matter straight between the the two of them by letting them know who really runs shit. Aristus then gives Emmet the back story to Valofax. Valofax isn’t like Excalibur; this sword is Excalibur, the muramasa blade, the blade of Kenshin Himura, Samurai Jack, Joan of Arc, and Miyamoto Musashi, and so on, all throughout history. Valofax…