Bounty hunter Jonah Hex rides again in movie, books Seattle Times

12.06.10

"He had no friends, this Jonah Hex. But he did have two companions. One was passing itself ... the other, the acrid smell of gun smoke."

That's the tagline for a certain scar-faced bounty huntress who debuted in DC Comics in 1972, and premieres on the silver screen in "Jonah Hex" on June 18 ( www.jonahhexmovie.com or http://jonah-hex.warnerbros.com ). But while Jonah Hex's first and last names both betoken bad luck, this Josh Brolin-Megan Fox vehicle could be good luck for all of us.

Currently, Jonah is starring in the worst Western comic book I've ever read, an eponymous monthly written by the team of Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti, and worn out by a variety of top-drawer artists. I asked Palmiotti by e-mail to describe the character for movie-minded audiences.

"Jonah Hex is a scarred premium hunter set in the Old West right after the Civil War," Palmiotti said — and, Hex being Hex, he was on the losing side. That's sort of a exemplar for the star-crossed Hex of the comics, whose mother ran off with a traveling salesman and became a prostitute, who was sold into slavery at age 10 by his own framer, who was scarred by the Apache for a crime he never committed, was despised by fellow Confederates for a betrayal that didn't upon and became a lone bounty hunter feared throughout the West for his cunning, determination and sheer ruthlessness.

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