Jonah Hex #12

[Mr. Palmer]

Store owner takes over small town by ousting the Mormon population. Bounty hunters are hired to exterminate those who haven't already been murdered or frozen to death.

Enter Jonah Hex.

Hex "befriends" the Mormons, then rides into town to get them supplies. The storeowner doesn't buy it, and sends his hired killers back with Hex to off the Mormons. Along the way, they're ambushed. Hex survives, and returns to the town with the ragtag bunch to off the storeowner.

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Second consecutive issue where this series hasn't grabbed me.

This time it's due to the story having already been done better in Il Grande Silenzio, the beautifully haunting Sergio Corbucci oater. From the malicious store owner, to the bounty hunters, to the frozen horse and gun in the snow, this is a pretty blatant rip-off.

[The Shadow]

Store owner takes over small town by ousting the Mormon population. Bounty hunters are hired to exterminate those who haven't already been murdered or frozen to death.

Enter Jonah Hex.

Hex "befriends" the Mormons, then rides into town to get them supplies. The storeowner doesn't buy it, and sends his hired killers back with Hex to off the Mormons. Along the way, they're ambushed. Hex survives, and returns to the town with the ragtag bunch to off the storeowner.

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Second consecutive issue where this series hasn't grabbed me.

This time it's due to the story having already been done better in Il Grande Silenzio, the beautifully haunting Sergio Corbucci oater. From the malicious store owner, to the bounty hunters, to the frozen horse and gun in the snow, this is a pretty blatant rip-off.
I've never seen the movie you mean, but it reminded me of Eastwood's Pale Rider.

I liked it though... I thought Gulacy did a great job on the art, the cover was awesome and the story kept me entertained... and what more could you ask?

IMO this is probably DC's best kept secret.

[Count Vertigo]

Store owner takes over small town by ousting the Mormon population. Bounty hunters are hired to exterminate those who haven't already been murdered or frozen to death.

Enter Jonah Hex.

Hex "befriends" the Mormons, then rides into town to get them supplies. The storeowner doesn't buy it, and sends his hired killers back with Hex to off the Mormons. Along the way, they're ambushed. Hex survives, and returns to the town with the ragtag bunch to off the storeowner.

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Second consecutive issue where this series hasn't grabbed me.

This time it's due to the story having already been done better in Il Grande Silenzio, the beautifully haunting Sergio Corbucci oater. From the malicious store owner, to the bounty hunters, to the frozen horse and gun in the snow, this is a pretty blatant rip-off.

The Great Silence! GREAT movie. loved the idea of a Mauser being used in a spaghetti western

[berk]

I read someplace that Gulacy's doing his own inks for this so I might have to pick it up, even though I'm not a big Western fan. How many issues is he doing, anyone know?

[matt levin]

This's the first Gulacy work I've enjoyed in a long time in that it didn't seem, as polished as that is, Gulacy-knockoff: faces, especially Jonah's were expressive, and the fluidity of line I associate with Paul Gulacy artwork is there.
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This is, though, -my- second sequential issue where the story did not seem to touch me at all: seems rushed, needed build up, why the otherwise unnecessary throw-in that the Mormon leader was the mass-murderer. Wisht they'da maybe made it a two-reeler.

Matt

[The Confessor]

I thought that this was the weakest issue of the current series so far. The story just didn't grab me and the whole thing seemed to lack punch. I thought that the gang of bounty killers that the store owner had hired were pretty promising as a genuinly nasty bunch of characters but they were never developed after their first appearance.

I usually love this comic but this issue just bored me. Hopefully it'll just be a momentary lull before the multi-part story arc that's coming up next. Hopefully that'll rock!