Weird Western Tales #71 - DC

In the Six Gun War story-line that just ran through Jonah Hex, Jonah was chasing after a guy that was just a real SOB . . Quentin Turnbull. Well . . apparently his family has been cursed because even with Jonah dead . . and many years removed . . Quentin's great-great-grandson, Joshua just can't seem to get away from him. Joshua runs a facility for Simon Stagg that's supposed to be developing alternate fuels. Well . . Simon shows up one day with a Black Lantern ring that he found near Don Hall's grave . . Dove. Somehow he got connected with the Ray, and together they've brought the Black Ring to this facility for examination. The problem is, even though the ring appears to be dormant . . apparently it's still on the radar of the other Black Lanterns. And since this facility is located in the heart of the south, there ton's of graves nearby. Cowboys . . Soldiers . . Indians . . you name it, they all have come to retrieve their ring. But like Quentin, Joshua is just stubborn enough that all he can think about is the money and adulation that he'll obtain if he can just unlock the secrets of this ring. All the stars of Weird Western Tales show up also . . Scalphunter . . the Trigger Twins . . Super-Chief . . Bat-Lash, and Jonah Hex himself. Or rather a kind of pasty, ghoulish, 'Night of the Living Dead' version. In the end though . . it's Joshua own kin that ends up taking him out . . Quentin. Quentin argues with Jonah, but in the end . . he shoots Joshua himself. The Ray fights the Black Lanterns the best he can. He sends out this big beam that seems to knock most of them out. But . . we don't really know what happened. We're not sure if he made it out or not. Hopefully that question will be answered in a different part of this story-line . . one of the other cross-overs. I would think that the Ray would be brought into play sometime, seeing as how the nature of his abilities is light. Anyways, This book revived some of DC's western heroes. Dan Didio wrote the book, with Renato Arlem on the art. Overall, I thought it was ok. It was kind of a throw-away issue though. If you didn't read it, you didn't really miss anything. And it really didn't add that much to the overall story. Like I said, the main question is . . what happened to the Ray. But . . the answers not here. So I guess we'll just have to move on to the next chapter. It was an interesting concept though.