Disturbing things live inside the remains of god.
Creative Staff:
Story: Christopher Sebela
Art: Ben Hennessy
Colors: Triona Farrell
Letterer: Jim Campbell
What They Say:
Having taken the first steps of their journey through the corpse of God, Zanzi and Neth are ready for a fight. But nothing has prepared them for the Fellnacht. Living in flesh hotels carved up and down the leg, this apocalypse cult will stop at nothing to turn the soldier and her tagalong into acolytes.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
With a good run of various fantasy-style series over the last few years, it’s been great to have so many of them after a long drought. Godfell comes from Christopher Sebela, a writer I’ve enjoyed with various projects over the years, and he sets up an interesting layout and concept here with a world thrown for a loop. Ben Hennessy does a solid job of capturing the weariness of a lot of the characters and the different types of people involved in a wide-ranging war like this while also some of the desolation. There are some neat layouts throughout this as well that work quite well with the narration. All of which is also expertly colored by Triona Farrell, who has done so many strong works over the years.
With Zanzi and Neth having made their way into the Leg of God, we get to see pretty quickly that there are a lot of disturbing things going on here. Various forces have aligned their way through it and a lot of people just trying to survive. These two are pretty capable overall but we still have that kind of distant engagement going on between them both, particularly as Zanzi is just continuing her journey. What we learn with this part of the journey is that one group has set themselves up relatively early in the Leg that’s a cult that operated before all of this that talked about how God was dead and the world was left unfinished for humanity. With this body here, they’ve now gained a lot of followers and strength and have set up inside there. And those that try to cross their territory either join up or die – seemingly by cannibalism. It’s a bleak thing and Neth struggles to understand it, especially after living such a basic and simple life in her village before.
A lot of this installment is focused on the back-and-forth between the two and Avernus, the apparent leader of sorts of this cult. It provides for some good action and through it we get to see how Neth is both trying to prove that she can be useful while also trying to get Zanzi to open up a bit instead of being so singularly focused. It’s understandable why Zanzi is as she is and why she doesn’t want to take on a new mission in Neth. But the pair end up getting along a bit better here overall even if there’s still a kind of friction between them that’s decent to see play out. The journey itself is the main focus as there’s a good bit of fighting and we see just how intense Zanzi can be, but also the nature of how all of this is set up within the Leg. It’s a bit weird because some of it feels like it’s so established it must have been there for years and years, but you kind of have to just gloss over that a bit.
In Summary:
Godfell nudges the storyline forward a bit more but it’s just as expected in that it’s focused more on the journey than anything else. We get some decent nods to a slow thaw of things between Zanzi and Neth and that’s good to see as it plays out amid the tension and action. But it’s mostly a book that’s showing how things are set up within the body of the god itself. They do make a good bit of progress through it here and it looks like they’re coming up on some very hedonistic types of people next, so it’ll be interesting to see where it turns its attention to next.
Grade: B+
Age Rating: 16+
Released By: Vault Comics
Release Date: March 29th, 2023
MSRP: $3.99
