tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post8900736232201805957..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: All Star Western - Justin Gray and Jimmy PalmiottiJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-45870067402439144152013-10-28T12:33:24.622-05:002013-10-28T12:33:24.622-05:00I became quite a fan of the then new Hex series. Q...I became quite a fan of the then new Hex series. Quite grim stories in the italo-western vein. I bought the trades.<br /><br />But I had zero interest when they roped Hex back into the "New52" continuity. Hex as just another satellite of the Batman Family in Gotham instead as a drifter in the west? Issue after issue? One of the selling points of Hex for me was the distance to the current DCU stuff. Now we have Booster Gold of all things. I'll pass.<br /><br />I also buy much less comics then I used to. Too expensive for a too small content, ever revolving artists and writers, neverending cross-overs which stories don't even merit one issue. Nothing sticks anymore, the constant re-numbering nonsense.<br /><br /> AndyDeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12806906746754478064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-1700498750561129712013-10-23T18:53:34.795-05:002013-10-23T18:53:34.795-05:00I'm still enjoying Waid's DAREDEVIL, Kiero...I'm still enjoying Waid's DAREDEVIL, Kieron Gillen's IRON MAN, and Jason Aaron's THOR. Ed Brubaker has a new series starting soon, VELVET, that I plan to read. But I've given up all the Avengers books and all the Spider-Man books. Rick Remender is about to run me off from Captain America, and I'm not that fond of what Fraction has been doing with the two FF books. His run on HAWKEYE has been pretty good, though.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-86418594854022491932013-10-23T18:49:53.885-05:002013-10-23T18:49:53.885-05:00Charles,
I was looking through my books this after...Charles,<br />I was looking through my books this afternoon, and lo and behold, there the ESSENTIAL RAWHIDE KID. I have it and had forgotten it even existed! I may be digging it out and reading it soon, but I'm part of the way through a couple of other Essentials volumes I want to finish first (TOMB OF DRACULA VOL. 1 and SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS VOL. 1 -- and man, those early Sgt. Fury stories with Kirby art are wonderful).James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-15800836103953412962013-10-23T16:40:56.597-05:002013-10-23T16:40:56.597-05:00That's where I am, James. Almost completely ou...That's where I am, James. Almost completely out of the new comics scene, but I buy a lot of reprint volumes. There is an Essential Rawhide Kid book. Charles R. Rutledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265387377510655973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-65545568918247530462013-10-23T11:16:05.038-05:002013-10-23T11:16:05.038-05:00Yeah, I didn't care for the Mad Max version of...Yeah, I didn't care for the Mad Max version of Hex, don't need to see it or anything similar again. Marvel just had The Rawhide Kid, The Two-Gun Kid, and Kid Colt appear in an issue of The Hulk's title (whatever it's called these days), and the story by Mark Waid was at least passable, although I didn't care for the art. I wonder if there are Essentials editions of The Rawhide Kid and Kid Colt. I might have to look into that. Never was as big a fan of The Two-Gun Kid, although I read his book fairly regularly.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-45564444019388346042013-10-23T10:42:08.576-05:002013-10-23T10:42:08.576-05:00As reviled as DC's Mad Max-inspired HEX title ...As reviled as DC's Mad Max-inspired HEX title was, it's a wonder they chose to go back to that same well - more or less. Yet it seems to be comic book tradition: Marvel once brought the Rawhide Kid into our time with Hawkeye to meet the Avengers.Richard Proschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314680709014254183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-51110980320801351392013-10-23T10:40:17.129-05:002013-10-23T10:40:17.129-05:00In fact, I find myself wavering on the verge of ta...In fact, I find myself wavering on the verge of taking a long hiatus from comics (except for collections of older stories) like I did in the Nineties. I've already cut my comics reading in half over the past few months and find less and less to interest me. If Marvel relaunches yet again, as I've read that they're going to, that may be the last straw. Luckily, there's still lots of stuff from the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies I either haven't read or would like to read again.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-70077261302327477702013-10-23T10:37:43.877-05:002013-10-23T10:37:43.877-05:00Yeah, I don't care for that idea at all. It ma...Yeah, I don't care for that idea at all. It may be time to dig out my SHOWCASE volume of those early stories and read some of them again.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-54530641115761679552013-10-23T10:23:36.604-05:002013-10-23T10:23:36.604-05:00I rather enjoy the stories where the cowboy travel... I rather enjoy the stories where the cowboy travels east. I thought Robert Randisi's Broadway Bounty was great and Max Allan Collins' Black Hats was fantastic. Wyatt Earp meets Al Capone? Hell yeah.<br /><br /> Unfortunately the current storyline in DC's Allstar Western has brought Jonah Hex into our time and is apparently going to leave him here for the foreseeable future. A little of that goes a long way. Charles R. Rutledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265387377510655973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-57057455763854352472013-10-23T06:26:10.603-05:002013-10-23T06:26:10.603-05:00To my mind the thing that makes the DC’s ‘New 52’ ...To my mind the thing that makes the DC’s ‘New 52’ version of Jonah Hex worth reading is the character of Hex himself. He remains the same scurvy scoundrel through all manner of unlikely plot developments.<br /><br />A recent story had him teamed up with a time-travelling Booster Gold, a pretty silly contrast to the violent, dusty tales of western action Hex has featured in over the years.<br /><br />Still, when Booster becomes unstuck in time and commences falling through a swirling wormhole, taking Hex with him, Hex demands to know what’s going on.<br /><br />Booster: “We’re travelling through time and space!”<br /><br />Hex: “Aw, hell no! Make it stop!”<br /><br />Stuff like that cracks me up enough that I keep reading.<br /><br />John Hocking <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com