God Country

There's a really fun set-up in God Country, by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Jason Wordie and John J. Hill, which starts the heavily utilize the idea of scale in the second issue. It becomes a major feature of the work, and one that the team keeps drawing attention to, page after page.

The fact that Image Comics is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year has made me feel so old that I'm worried about just deteriorating into a vaguely person-shaped pile of dust any second now, but there's one thing that's really helping to take the sting out of it: An amazing roster of variant covers where current image titles like Sex Criminals, The Wicked + the Divine, The Walking Dead, and Invincible homage the classic first issues from throughout the company's history, like, uh, Sex Criminals, The Wicked + the Divine, The Walking Dead, and Invincible.

In Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw's upcoming Image title God Country, a man moves his family across the country to help care for his ailing father --- but everything changes dramatically after a storm of biblical proportions hits town. ComicsAlliance caught up with Cates to talk about balancing the personal with the epic, and the importance of God Country's West Texas location.

God Country, an upcoming Image Comics series by writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw, blends fantasy and western elements in the present day and with an elderly protagonist who finds himself in a unique situation. Check out a preview.