God Country #1 Review

Writer: Donny Cates / Artist: Geoff Shaw / Image Comics You can always count on Image Comics to provide you a series with that true grit in their fiction. We got it jumping off the strength with this series God Country. Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw tell us the story of Emmet Quinlan: we’re first introduced to Emmet from the perspective of his son, Roy, talking with the local sheriff about having found Emmet out by highway wandering around again. Emmet got a pair of hands on him as he took out some officers trying to help him, which lets us know he got some Fight Club-level abilities.

Emmet suffers from Alzheimer’s and it has only gotten worse since the death of his wife, who was the person who could calm him down easily. We see just how bad Emmet’s condition has gotten as he threatens friends and family, thinking they’re intruders. We’re thrust into Roy’s wife being upset at their life being geared toward Emmet, who she only sees as an angry, hateful man. That’s some hard shit to deal with. Roy is torn, and when it couldn’t get any worse a tornado (because we down in Texas) shows its ass bringing a large scale demon into town. The demon isn’t even alone, as a fucking 12-foot sword followed not far behind. We come to find out that Emmet is really ’bout that Fight Night life foreshadowed earlier. Now this does occur rather fast in the story and Roy best represents the reader’s reaction of “what the duck is going on here?” as we discover what the sword does to clear Emmet’s cond…