Jonah Hex: Origins [Paperback]

Jimmy Palmiotti (Author), Justin Gray (Author), Jordi Bernet (Author), Phil Noto (Author), Val Semeiks (Author)

Book Description

Series: Jonah Hex | Publication Date: November 7, 2007

Collecting JONAH HEX #13-18, featuring the never-before-told origin of Jonah Hex plus other tales of his travels in the old West, dodging bullets, righting wrongs and courting death.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (November 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401214908
• ISBN-13: 978-1401214906
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.2 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Writer, Editor and Creator.
Multi Award winning character creator with a wide range of experience in advertising, production, consulting, editorial, film writing, development and production, media presentation and video game development. Just a few of his clients include Nike, Nickelodeon, Universal pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Lion's Gate, Vidmark, Starz, Fox Atomic, Alliance films, New Line, Spike TV, MTV, 2kgames, Midway, Radical games, Activision and THQ games.

Co founder of such companies as Event Comics, Black Bull Media, Marvel Knights, a division of marvel comics, and the current Paperfilms, where he is partners with Amanda Conner and Justin Gray. Together they have created and co created numerous universes, comics , TV series and characters including: The New West, Monolith, 21 Down, The Resistance, The Pro, Gatecrasher, Beautiful killer, Ash, Cloudburst, Trigger Girl 6, Thrill Seeker, Trailblazer, Ballerina, The Twilight Experiment and the TV series, Painkiller Jane.

Current work includes : Powergirl , Jonah Hex , Supergirl and Prototype for D.C.COMICS, The last Resort for I.D.W, Back to Brooklyn and SPLATTERMAN for Image comics, TIME BOMB for radical comics and Spartacus for Devils Due.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Retold Origins, May 20, 2008

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Bennet Pomerantz "Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD" (College Park, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jonah Hex: Origins (Paperback)

I grew up reading Jonah Hex in 1970's in the pages of Weird Western Tales. You must understand the westerns I grew up on was John Wayne, The Lone Ranger, Wagon Train and the Virigian. It was later that I discover the Magnificent Seven and the Clint Eastwood Man with No Name series of films. My first exposing to the idea of the anti-hero was Hex.

In this graphic novel,the lucky reader has a rewritten original more suited to HEX, the bounty hunter and the man. In this graphic novel, which reprints three comic novellas, we are reintroduced to Jonah Hex. Thosde who do not know the comic nor the character will enjoy the intro to him.

The writing is crisp and to the point, not like a monthly comic more like a well told novel. The art is the stuff you frame when buying an uncolored one sheet at auction. (Does anyone know if this art is available to buy, I would love a piece from this Hex book)

Those who bought Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, Vol. 1 would not be disappointed. Hex seems gritter for the times. Jimmy Palmiotti is an able scribe, similar to John Byrne when he rewrote the Man of Steel origins(Superman: The Man of Steel, Vol. 1

So if you like the anti-hero western, pick this up. If you have not tried Jonah Hex, start with this one. Worth five stars in my book

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jonah Hex is back... well, sort of, January 21, 2008

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Diego Cordoba - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jonah Hex: Origins (Paperback)

Being a big fan of Jonah Hex from way back in the 70's, I wanted to see what the new update would look like. After all, the character was nearly killed off in the 80's when he started fighting monsters and demons. Now Jonah is back as the western (anti-) hero he was supposed to be (though the Albano stories are still unbeatable).

I was a little disappointed with the first two books, as most of the artists where a let down and incapable of drawing a decent western (jeesh, isn't there a single artist nowadays who can draw a horse?). But with the third volume we get at least an artist who can draw westerns (Torpedo's Jordi Bernet). The storyline which goes through three chapters, takes us back to when Jonah was a kid and of how he got his scarred face (and no, he wasn't kicked by a mule).

For old fans like me, there is nothing new on the horizon, as this story was already told before (and much better) by Michael Fleischer. However, we can see that DC has taken an interest in bringing the character back again the way he was meant to be, instead of transforming him into some sort of futuristic superhero. Also, this time around he at least speaks in his southern western drawl (as opposed to the modern PC English he spoke in the first two volumes).

The other two artists in the volume are worthless, the second one faring only slightly better than an inept artist called Phil Noto.

Now DC, how about getting Russ Heath out of retirement and have him draw a story?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars History mystery, November 21, 2010

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Patrick M. Carroll (Shanghai, China) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jonah Hex: Origins (Paperback)

Not a bad TPB but some serious historical issues that killed more than half the book for me. First off, why would Jonah fight for the South if he had been raised as a slave by the Apache? Maybe not fight for the North I could see, but fighting for the South makes little or no sense. He doesn't seem politically minded, certainly has no favor towards slavers, and is not interested in helping out his fellow Southerners. Just makes no sense. Then of course there is the Iroquois indian that he knows who is locked in a prison camp for Indians in Arizona. Poor story details aside, the comic is well drawn and inked and has its entertaining and diverting moments. I particularly liked the last segment.