Once again, I'm truly amazed that it's the year 2007, and I'm totally in to a Western themed title. It just baffles me. But in a good way. Russ Heath does the interior and exterior art for this issue. This guys been around for a long time, but I gotta tell you, he's just as talented as he ever was. This was a really nice issue. It's supposedly from book written by Jonah's grandson, Woodson. It relates a story that happened to Jonah a few years prior to his death in 1904. Jonah actually has a son out there, who he's never met. Until now. Jonah's out in the hills, panhandling, when some outlaws come running up on him. Because of the way they're riding, Jonah figures that the rurales are after them. Which makes them bad men. He figures if he can hold them up, until the rurales arrives, maybe he can collect a reward. Long story short, he starts taking them out one by one, but eventually they rally on his position and are about to give him a beat down. Luckily, that's exactly when the rurales finally catch up. They're being led by a tracker who's helping them find some of their more elusive lawbreakers. It's his son . . . Jason. Afterwards they go to a bar for drinks. Jonah wants to be left alone, but Jason, suspecting who he is, won't let that happen. They get in a fight, and Jonah tells him there's a reason his mother took him away. She didn't want him to turn out like his father. As he's walking away, and out of town, he walks past Jason's wife and child. But he doesn't know that. He's just walked past his own grandchild. When his wife asks who that man was, Jason replies "That . . . . that was nobody." Fantastic story and art. I really like this book. I know it's not to most peoples tastes. And that's ok. But, to me . . . . it's a good read.
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