Jonah Hex Vol. 1: Face Full of Violence

Jonah Hex Vol. 1: Face Full of Violence
by Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti

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Author: Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti
Brand: DC Comics
Illustrator: Luke Ross
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-06
ISBN: 1401210953
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: DC Comics

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Book Review: Return with us now to those WEIRD days of yesteryear
Summary: 5 Stars

JONAH HEX: A FACE FULL OF VIOLENCE collects the first six issues of the new series focusing on everyone's favorite weird western bounty hunter. Jonah Hex will never win any beauty contests, but he's got more than enough speed to quickly dispatch anyone who tells him so. Thankfully, writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, along with artists Luke Ross and Tony DeZuniga, take Hex back to his incarnation from DC's classic `70s series "Weird Western Tales" and "Jonah Hex" - gone are the days of the inexplicable futuristic adventurer "Hex", as well as the sleazy white trash version from Joe Lansdale and Tim Truman. If anything, this Hex is patterned more after Clint Eastwood from Hang 'Em High, and the influences show in Ross' beautiful painted art. These six issues are individual stories, and not a continuous arc, pitting Hex against crooked law officials, vengeful nuns, the Texas Rangers, and other interesting opponents. Another classic DC western character, Bat Lash, appears in issue # 3, hopefully foreshadowing more appearances by others. The stories move quickly, are to-the-point, and wrap up nicely, traits that are rare for an ongoing series these days.

I have to hand it to DC for resurrecting this classic character in his original form. Jonah Hex had really drifted off the mark over the past 20-odd years. This is a welcome return. While Western characters certainly helped to keep the comics industry alive during the dark days of the Kefauver hearings, I don't know if readers would take to a revival of squeaky-clean heroes like Hopalong Cassidy or Roy Rogers... but Hex, or Scalphunter, Cinnamon, or even Arak Red-Hand would certainly be welcome. DC has a rich stable of Western characters - it's about time they were dusted off and given the spotlight.

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Jonah Hex, a mysterious bounty hunter and thinking man'skiller, was a hero to some and a villain to others -- and his name wasspoken in whispers. He had no friends, but he did have two companions: onewas death and the other... the smell of gunsmoke. This collection features six lushly illustrated tales of Hex's travels inthe old West, dodging bullets, righting wrongs and courting death.

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