By Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Jordi Bernet, and others (DC Comics)
ISBN13: 978-1-84576-629-0
Jonah Hex is probably the most memorable western comic character ever created. He’s certainly the darkest and most grippingly realised, as is the brutal and uncompromising world he inhabits. A ruthless demon with gun or knife, he hunts men for the price on their heads in the years following the American civil war, and the scars inside him are more shocking even than the ghastly ruin of his face.
This collection (reprinting issues #13-18 of the most recent monthly series) retells his origin and offers fascinating insights not only in the gripping lead tale ‘Retribution’, illustrated by the utterly superb Jordi Bernet, but also in the haunting and nihilistically evocative ‘The Ballad of Tallulah Black’ (with beguiling, painterly art by Phil Noto), and the blackly comic ‘I Walk Alone’, drawn with unsuspected subtlety by Val Semeiks.
Jonah Hex was always billed as a “Western for people who didn’t like Westerns†and cliché aside, this is still true. One of the best strips currently coming out of America, this is a perfect book for any adult beginning or returning to comics.
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