7 Image Comics Series Crying Out For A TV Show

5. God Country

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God Country by Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Jason Wordie and John J. Hill tells the story of Emmet Quinlan - an old widower in Texas whose mind is crumbling from dementia - and his violent outbursts causing problems for his kids and all those around him.

Then a tornado levels his home and he comes from the wreckage seemingly restored and now wielding a strange enchanted sword. Suddenly, Quinlan becomes all that stands between his Lone Star State town and otherworldly creatures after the sword.

A deeply affecting tale about letting go and also about holding on, the series could be a haunting look at a horrifying and painful mental illness.

It can also feature a stately old dude actor wielding an absurdly over-sized magic sword and fighting monsters. Kind of like Logan, except with extra-dimensional beasties.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.