He had no friends, this Jonah Hex, but he did have two companions. One was death itself, the other, the acrid smell of gunsmoke.

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Alternate title: OMG HE SMOTHERED A CHILD

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

I really enjoyed this. Certainly much more than Marvel's HAHAHA ROFFLE AT OUR HERITAGE COWBOYS ARE GHEY attempt.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

I did like the way he's drawn to resemble a young Clint. With a hideous deformity.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I'll be happy if it gets, you know, all weird and creepy. I like vicious noir westers but I like them even more with zombies and whatnot.

"Feeding the animal abuser to the abused animals" is one of my favorite antihero tricks.

― adam (adam), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

It's great that there's technically nothing stopping a child from reading this. If I was eight I'd love it even more.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I should have bought this.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

The cover alone would have ensured a sale to an Elseworlds 8-year-old-me who had enough disposable income to deviate from his boring X-Men routine. I totally thought Jonah was gonna get with the rich guy's Hot Daughters.

I just read 100 pages of the Showcase in a sitting, which is a marathon for me.

― adam (adam), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

is the showcase good??

― dave k, Friday, 4 November 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm enjoying it about as much as the GL one. Two seperate people at the store yesterday told me that almost no one buys the Essentials or Showcases. What the hell is wrong with people?

― adam (adam), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Did you just answer yr own question?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

No, but I spelled separate wrong. Ugh.

― adam (adam), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

My store tells me that the Essentials sell really, really well, and they certainly buy loads. I haven't asked about the Showcases yet, but they had huge stacks of the first two.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

nb I don't think my store is very good.

― adam (adam), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd honestly buy the Essentials(and spend more) if they were in colour -- even (or especially) if they were printed on good old-fashioned rub newspaper. At the moment, I've just sort of held off reading them to wait for colour versions (whenever they come, which could be never).

But anyway. Jonah Hex.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah, essentials would be SO much more tempting in colour

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 November 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Rockis--er, COLORIST! So, is the interesting thing about Jonah Hex his a) lack of heart-of-goldness b) his potential h-o-gness c) status as the dark handsome no nonsense stranger, except really really not handsome d) really good name or e) place as the only Western comic that's lasted?

― adam (adam), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

When is the, er, "classic era"? Is there a classic era?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

I avoid Essentials (except Amazing Spiderman ones) due to the lack of colour too. But the Jonah Hex Showcase is tempting for the Gil Kane art on one story alone.
Plus I want to read more Western comics, since I enjoyed Loveless so much...

― David N (David N.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

There is something a bit off about reading Silver Age Green Lantern in black and white. And wait till the Superman series gets to the era of red, white, gold and blue kryptonite.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

it's like my comic-store guy said "he always ANNOUNCES when something is yellow anyway!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 November 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 6 November 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Well, I got a copy of JONAH HEX SHOWCASE or MOSTLY JONAH HEX AND SOME OTHER CRAP SHOWCASE as it should have been called. There's nothing like thinking to yourself 'Ahhh, at least another hour's worth of classic Jonah action!' and then turning the page to find yourself staring at hem-hem Outlaw by Bobby 'Don't Believe The Hype' Kanigher. Similar to another Outlaw I had a brush with, in fact has there ever been a story called Outlaw that was good?

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

I bought it today as well - some non-Hex Kanigher sounds a fine bonus, to me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

A better bonus would be some more Jonah Hex. Enough in fact to fill the pages that were full of Kanigher's least good stuff ever. And the 'male character = gurl' twist three times in a row.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

JONAH HEX SHOWCASE RULES

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

According to the superfun Absorbacon blog, the last issue of Jonah Hex featured the mang saying: "I'm not interested in making new friends. I don't even like the ones I have."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Read J. Hex Showcase a coupla days ago--I do like that a couple of times when they seem to be about to explain how he got the scar, they reveal some other well-telegraphed secret from his past instead. Although the dialect gets to be a little intense.

Yeah, the Billy the Kid stuff... ow. I can understand why that didn't get to be so long-running once they realized that every episode would have to have the SAME twist ending. Also, Outlaw is indeed a bit rub--I'm not sure whether I like or dislike the fact that they bring on the big reveal two pages before the end of the serial...

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I bought my first ish of Jonah Hex last week. I am gonna get the first two this week! It's loads of fun.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

it's like deadwood for ten year olds.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

HOLY CRAP!
Tony D draws the March issue of Jonah Hex!
http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=55953

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

did i tell the story about how i fell asleep in class last week and dreamt of jonah hex?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

looking at those dezuniga issues in the showcase volume i detect the work of lots of assistants, chiefly rudy nebres but also some alex nino - so it will be interesting to see if he's got any help this time round...

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

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