Synopsis
This volume — collecting issues #19-24 of the bloody, hard-hitting series — features the lushly illustrated adventures of Hex as he dodges bullets, rights wrongs and courts death in the Old West.
Jonah Hex is clearly a good composite of every cowboy cliche. He is both evil and good, depending on your opinion of killing. If the bad have got it coming, then he's one of the last few fighting with a harsh but understandable sense of justice. If you don't think so, then he's one evil psycho. The ambiguity works well.
I hadn't read the previous volumes, and don't think my reading of this one suffered as a result. The stories were compact, fun, well-written and decently drawn by artists with an appropriate style for the genre.
This isn't the smartest western I've read, that's still Loveless, nor is it the best illustrated. I don't care though, it's still good fun, and very readable. Enough to make me read more, which takes some doing.