So you know those characters you've no more than a passing familiarity with but for some reason have always an interest in? Jonah Hex is one of those for me. I'd never read a Jonah Hex comic, but for some reason always thought he was cool.

I just read the first appearance of Jonah Hex. I liked it. He was a jerkass who tried to be nice, that backfired, so he went right back to jerkass. Also he told a little kid he hated him. I love a good jerk of an antihero.

This has no real point, I've just discovered the character and wanted to share. Any one else a fan of the character or genre in comic form?

Those Jonah Hex covers used to creep me out............I'll always remember the the one of him rising from quicksand(or bog)
Of all the cowboy comics I used to buy,Jonah Hex was my favorite.

I was never into Jonah Hex until the current series came out. Now it's one of my favorites on the pull list.

The new Jonah Hex series is great...i love genre comics..westerns, WW2, Espionage, etc..lots of cool stuff out there these days.

I am enjoying the current series. The first few issues had Hex looking like Clint Eastwood from the old Sergio Leoni films...with a little disfigurement added for character.

I think Hex was originally patterned after Eastwood at the beginning of Hang 'em High. The blood and bruises he has are amazingly similar to Hex's scars in placement and effect.

I liked the old Ghost Rider stories before they changed his name to Night Rider.

Speaking of Jonah Hex... may I be so crass as to self-promote for a moment?

A few months ago I took on a new gig as creative director of WEIRD TALES magazine (http://www.weirdtalesmagazine.com), and our upcoming December issue will be headlined by sometime Jonah Hex writer Joe Lansdale, modern master of the weird western. Order yer copies now!

I've read a few more and I have to say I love this character. I really hope he doesn't end up too watered down, because of what I've read so far he's just the perfect anti-hero.

The recent issue by Gulacy was amazing...hope he comes back as an artist.

Garth Ennis has a western Ghost Rider/Night Rider series out from Marvel next year..should be good.

I read the first issue of the new Lone Ranger series from Dynamite this past weekend. It was quite good, and I plan on sticking around for the duration.

Oh, i didn't even know there was a Lone Ranger comic. I may look into that. I used to love watching the show with my dad when i was a kid

The first issue just came out in September and issue 2 should be out soon. You can probably get ahold of it straight from the publisher if you can't get it through a comic shop.

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Hey, John V. - I finally read The Long Haul. I enjoyed it a lot. It's a good "heist" story with a Western setting.

I do buy Jonah Hex, and I like it a great deal. I'm also buying the Vertigo book Loveless. It took a little while for me to get into that one, but the story is moving along nicely now.

I bought the first issue of Lone Ranger but haven't read it yet. I do plan to buy the next one, though.

Bob - I knew you would like it...great little comic (cool format too eh?).

I hear there is a sequel in the works by the same creative team.

Yeah. It was fun. It was like "Ocean's Eleven" in the wild west ...which suited me just fine.

You're right about the format, too. It was nice and portable, and the page count was large enough to make me feel that I'd gotten my money's worth.



Hey, bring it on! I'm ready.

I like it too...but he better be wearing a blue shirt by issue 4! It's the only western comic I've ever bought, and it's more to do with watching the tv show when i was a kid than a real interest in western books.

Well, not by issue 4...

The red shirt is probably a nod to his appearance on the covers of pulp magazines in the 30s and 40s aas well as how he looked in the comics from Dell in the late 40s and early 50s. Maybe they'll get to the blue shirt eventually, though.

Yeah, that's what I read in the interview a while back on Newsarama, about the red shirt. Still, nostalgia demands a blue outfit.

I didn't know about the Lone Ranger comic. I'll try and pick it up next trip to the laffbook shop.

I hadn't read Hex until this new series, but I like it just fine! Even picked up the Showcase. But I'm so far behind with the Essentials and Showcases, it quit being funny about a year ago.

I just read the last Jonah Hex story. That cat has a bizarre ending.

Possibly the story behind the story...

In 1976, while filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, a fun-house "hanging mummy" was damaged and it was realized that the mannequin was actually a human corpse. The wild west origins and traveling show history of the corpse are in line with Michael Fleischer's final Jonah Hex story. Now I'm wondering if Fleischer's 1978 story was inspired by the 1976 discovery.

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