This story had a nice little twist to it, but . . to me . . the best part of the book was seeing Dick Giordano's artwork. We haven't seen his stuff in a long time and it was nice to see him doing a full book again. He's been in the business a long, long time. Seeing his art kind of gave me some fond memories of the 70's. You know . . some warm fuzzies. Plus you could always see the Neal Adams influence in his work. Also, if I'm remembering correctly, I think Dick did some work in the original Jonah Hex series. Anyways, the whole book had a great feel to it. As far as the story goes . . this preacher from this small town has hired Jonah to find the killers of thier town founder, and take them out. Jonah is a bounty hunter, but this guy saw him as a hired gun. However, right from the 'get-go' Jonah knows that something is not right. The town was founded where this guy had found a water table. He claimed to have done it with a divining rod. Later, he claimed that he could use the same rod to find iron ore, and then gold & silver. When he started making those claims, that's when he was murdered . . for the stick. But there was deceit all around on this one. The guy was actually a geologist, and that's how he found the water. The claim for the ore and minerals were so that he could drive up the price on the land surrounding the town, which he owned, when he created a gold-rush. Meanwhile, the preacher, who was in love with the man's wife, hired these guys to kill him and take the rod hoping that he could console the wife, which would hopefully transform into love. And then, to tie up loose ends, he hired Jonah to take out the first guys that he hired. It was all a bit convoluted, but . . I thought it kept well with the spirit and deception of the time. These seemed like things that people would actually do. Anyways, in the end . . it's this woman, who was loved by both these men, who ends up being alone when she kills the preacher out of rage. She knew what her husband was up to, but . . she loved him just the same. And now? Now she's left with no one and nothing . . completely alone. Everyone ends up dead except for her and Jonah. 'Th' only reason yore alive an' they're dead is that those men had bounties on 'em. You don't. Not yet.' I thought it was another good story by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti. I really enjoy the work they're doing on this book. And like I said, with Dick's art . . it just made it all that much better for me.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Jonah Hex #51 - DC
This story had a nice little twist to it, but . . to me . . the best part of the book was seeing Dick Giordano's artwork. We haven't seen his stuff in a long time and it was nice to see him doing a full book again. He's been in the business a long, long time. Seeing his art kind of gave me some fond memories of the 70's. You know . . some warm fuzzies. Plus you could always see the Neal Adams influence in his work. Also, if I'm remembering correctly, I think Dick did some work in the original Jonah Hex series. Anyways, the whole book had a great feel to it. As far as the story goes . . this preacher from this small town has hired Jonah to find the killers of thier town founder, and take them out. Jonah is a bounty hunter, but this guy saw him as a hired gun. However, right from the 'get-go' Jonah knows that something is not right. The town was founded where this guy had found a water table. He claimed to have done it with a divining rod. Later, he claimed that he could use the same rod to find iron ore, and then gold & silver. When he started making those claims, that's when he was murdered . . for the stick. But there was deceit all around on this one. The guy was actually a geologist, and that's how he found the water. The claim for the ore and minerals were so that he could drive up the price on the land surrounding the town, which he owned, when he created a gold-rush. Meanwhile, the preacher, who was in love with the man's wife, hired these guys to kill him and take the rod hoping that he could console the wife, which would hopefully transform into love. And then, to tie up loose ends, he hired Jonah to take out the first guys that he hired. It was all a bit convoluted, but . . I thought it kept well with the spirit and deception of the time. These seemed like things that people would actually do. Anyways, in the end . . it's this woman, who was loved by both these men, who ends up being alone when she kills the preacher out of rage. She knew what her husband was up to, but . . she loved him just the same. And now? Now she's left with no one and nothing . . completely alone. Everyone ends up dead except for her and Jonah. 'Th' only reason yore alive an' they're dead is that those men had bounties on 'em. You don't. Not yet.' I thought it was another good story by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti. I really enjoy the work they're doing on this book. And like I said, with Dick's art . . it just made it all that much better for me.
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