Demon Copperhead: Chapter 49 Summary & Analysis

Demon gets a job at Sonic, and Dori starts cutting hair in a bootleg basement salon. They both get prescriptions for painkillers. Emmy has been missing for two months, and June is not doing well when Demon goes to see her. They both know that Emmy is living in Roanoke with Fast Forward, but they don’t know much beyond that. June says she’s worried about Maggot, too, and that more than anything, he needs a good boyfriend. “You’d be okay with that?” Demon asks. June says yes. 

Tommy lets Demon draw a comic strip for the paper. Tommy is upset by the stereotypes of the region that other articles and comics portray, so he asks Demon to come up with something better. Demon makes the superhero of his comic a miner with a red bandanna. In the first comic, a woman’s power has gone out. The superhero grabs a lightning bolt from the sky and puts it into the electrical wires. In the comic’s last panel, Demon draws music notes coming from the woman’s radio as she and her husband dance outside on the porch. Demon names the strip Red Neck and signs it “Anonymous.”