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Weekend Reading-- Jonah Hex

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I've got a really strange and warped collectors mentality.  I've picked up a handful of issues of Jonah Hex, mostly the ones drawn by Jordi Bernet, Darwyn Cooke and J.H. Williams III but I always kind of just wrote the book off if it wasn't being drawn by those three.  For some reason, I couldn't wrap my head around the idea that Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray's writing could actually be good if the story wasn't drawn by one of those top notch artists.  But I also want their stuff in collected form, rather than in the regular issues (that's just the way that I roll nowadays) so I had this weird collection of only a couple of Hex trades but I wanted to pick up more to get more of Bernet's artwork.  So instead of just picking up a random trade that had Bernet artwork, I had to go back and get the first two volumes of the series, which feature fine art by Luke Ross, Tony Dezuniga and Paul Gulacy but no Bernet.  Eventually I'll get to the Bernet stuff.

I started reading the first collection, Face Full of Violence, last night and the writing on it is pretty nice.  Palmiotti and Gray know how to write strong but short tales, really getting to the heart of the matter quickly, resolving it and then moving on to the next story.  And the Luke Ross artwork is just stunning, leaps better than the stuff he's turning in on Captain America I think.  Also, after seeing the Tony Dezuniga drawn issues, I need the Jonah Hex graphic novel that's coming out next month drawn by him.  He's got such a unique and energetic style that I don't think I've ever really noticed before.