@ Pop Syndicate-- Jonah Hex: No Way Back

Jonah Hex should be an ugly book. He’s an ugly character with a dark soul and he should never look like a Hollywood leading man with prosthetic scar added to ugly him up. If there has been a glaring problem with the latest DC Jonah Hex series, it’s that too many of the artists can’t draw ugly. Even Darwyn Cooke and J.H. Williams III, fantastic artists and storytellers, are still too pretty, clean and concise to really draw a Jonah Hex story. Their stories have been wonderful but too neat and too crafted. When I think of Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti’s current Jonah Hex stories, the artists I picture are Jordi Bernet and Cristiano Cucina, scratchy, dirty and rough artists who really capture the essence of Hex in every drawing. And I also now think of Tony DeZuniga, the co-creator of Jonah Hex and artist on Jonah Hex: No Way Back, an original graphic novel that’s as compellingly ugly as Jonah Hex’s face is.
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