Anyone who has been in combat can tell you the importance of making the right decision. This is where either your training or instincts kicks in. That can be the difference between surviving or a nail in the coffin. Then there are those rare times, both work in concert to ensure the best possible outcome.

This is why the military developed the rules of engagement. It ensures you respond properly and the decisions are made on multiple levels to include the field. Thinking on your feet becomes a useful skill and could be a matter of life or death. Which is why if you make the wrong decision, the question becomes will you survive? In the second issue of Among The Willows, Sama and dam must decide who they are looking is the person that they believe it to be.

As Sam and Adam try to assess if the person, they are looking at is the person who they believe it to be, they trust him with a gun to gauge if it really is Sam’s father. As they take out the rest of the shooters, the townspeople realize along with Sam and Adam, that their watch party is closing in, to return fire. They hatch a plan to draw them out to the nearby valley where they split them up and shoot them one by one from higher ground. By the issue’s end, Sam’s father starts to explain where he has been and why a posse is after the boys.

Overall, an action-packed issue that extends this story to the powder keg of intrigue and six-shooters. The story by Adam Meadors and Sam Romesburg is superb and intellectual. The art by the creative team is gorgeous. Altogether, a story that feels cinematic in the best ways possible.

Story: Adam Meadors and Sam Romesburg
Art: Bruno Chiroleu and Renzo Podesta
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy