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singh_reads_kanwar2's review
3.0
Jonah hex was the pinnacle of comic westerns to me. He wasn't just a superhero with a horse and a gun that many of the Marvel & DC western series seemed to be. The stores had a grit and underlying real world feel to them. Great collection of the 1st 1/2 of DC's run of classic hex stories.
Jonah Hex is such a volume that looks amazing in black and white. There is a wide variety of artists here, from Tony DeZuniga to Luis Dominguez to George Moltieri and others. Each artist gives us a visual imprint of there talent through story. The reproduction we get here is crisp with fine detail for a period comic.
Whereas super-hero titles like Superman may suffer somewhat from the lack of color , comics that depicted more realistic genres like westerns and war, with art that are not full of buff muscle gods and barely covered nymphs, seem to fit this format very well. Many of the artists working in these genres were using black shading, for instance, to create mood and nuance long before Frank Miller made it a popular motif among super-hero artists.
Jonah Hex is such a volume that looks amazing in black and white. There is a wide variety of artists here, from Tony DeZuniga to Luis Dominguez to George Moltieri and others. Each artist gives us a visual imprint of there talent through story. The reproduction we get here is crisp with fine detail for a period comic.
Whereas super-hero titles like Superman may suffer somewhat from the lack of color , comics that depicted more realistic genres like westerns and war, with art that are not full of buff muscle gods and barely covered nymphs, seem to fit this format very well. Many of the artists working in these genres were using black shading, for instance, to create mood and nuance long before Frank Miller made it a popular motif among super-hero artists.
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