Jonah Hex: Counting Corpses

I am a long time fan of western and action characters such as Mark Bolan, The Executioner, The Destroyer series and the Longarm book series. I was hooked on the bounty hunter Jonah Hex from the first graphic novel I read about him and he is pretty much my favorite revenge hero at this time. Here is a true man of justice and the most ruthless western bounty hunter to roam the west. Even though he often appears to be a hard man with no heart, this is not really true. Inside he is a true man of justice who takes out the bad and evil thugs without no compunction or hesitation. Some may consider him an anti-hero, but he is merely a man who lives in a different age and time. This volume (Counting Corpses) is simply fantastic. The group of stories are all action packed and interesting and includes the following: The Hide House Massacre, The Great Silence, Divining Rod, Too Mean to Die, Shooting Stars and You'll Never Dance Again. The stories are solid and always interesting. The illustrations are just amazing and keeps you turning the pages.If you are a Jonah Hex fan you should check out this volume. A great read.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Season of the Warrior: A poetic tribute to warriors)

Don’t buy this if you don’t like action, brutal deaths, alligators, women with eye-patches, explosions, whiskey or Hex using a shotgun to give free haircuts. I loved every minute of it. Hex needs a series on Netflix.

Jonah Hex: Counting Corpses by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti takes Hex's mad death dealing skills and ramps them up X 100. You can LITERALLY count the corpses as they fall, page by page. Throw in a host of top-tier artists like Darwyn Cooke, Jordi Bernet and others, and you've got yourself a winner. Like most of the previous Hex trade paperbacks, Counting Corpses follows the same formula, which is short stand-alone stories that showcase Jonah Hex's slow descent into damnation. As the series progresses he just seems to get meaner and more merciless, and one particular story featuring Tellulah Black and a newborn baby disturbingly ripped into my heart when reading it. Every story contained within is something completely different, even though they all revolve around Hex seeking out yet another bounty which he proceeds to complete with brutal efficiency. This volume was one of my personal favorites, and gave me the all-out violent western action I craved coupled with fantastic art and stories with ridiculously twisted endings. Has Jonah Hex ever let me down? Nope. And neither have Gray and Palmiotti. Buy it!

Jonah Hex is a simple character with simple needs and the acquiring of those needs, sex, booze and "Leave me the hell alone." usually require him to dispense death to those who need it and collect cash from those that don't want to pay him. The writers of this book craft many wonderful one and done stories that have a thread that runs through them, not every hero is good, not every hero is redeemable.It should be noted that the rnumerous artists on this book add there own feel and life to each story adding depth and detail and more importantly a feel that compliments the stories within.If you ever had a soft spot for westerns, Jonah Hex is a read you won't regret.

`Counting Corpses' compiles Jonah Hex issues 43 (July 2009), and 50 - 54 (February 2010 -June 2010).(the intervening issues 44 - 49 constituted the `Six Gun War' miniseries).All issues were written by the team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray.Issue 43, `The Hyde House Massacre', starts with an extended, wordless sequence of mayhem, as Jonah carries out a rescue mission involving an abducted banker and his daughter; the artwork, by Paul Gulacy, is among the best featured in this incarnation of the franchise.Issue 50 saw DC raise the cover price of all its comics from $2.99 to $3.99; consequently it has more pages than the previous issues.Unfortunately, while `The Great Silence' has a competent plot involving Jonah and his on-and-off romantic interest Tallulah Black, a psychopathic Church Lady, and a bounty on 50 men, Darwin Cooke's art is so cartoony as to give the story a `Saturday Morning TV Funhouse' appearance quite incongruous with its grim storyline.`Divining Rod' (issue 51), with art by Dick Giordano, deals with a dowser who can discover buried gold, and a unique set of duplicitous characters. `Too Mean to Die' (issue 52) sees regular artist Jordi Bernet return; the plot concerns swamp-country bushwhackers, and a young mother who endangers herself, and her child, to save Jonah's bleeding skin.Issue 53, `You'll Never Dance Again', features a young dance hall girl with more than a passing resemblance to Megan Fox (star of the `Jonah Hex' 2010 feature film). Bill Tucci's artwork is very good, and it's a shame he never contributed to other installments in the series.The book closes with issue 54, `Shooting Stars', with artwork by Bernet. This story sees Jonah in trouble with vengeful lawmen; some supporting cast members from previous issues of `Jonah Hex' team up to help him clear his name...not, of course, without considerable bloodshed.All in all, `Counting Corpses' is a middling entry in the `Jonah Hex' series compilations. Unfortunately, the careful artwork by Gulacy and Tucci was the exception, rather than the rule, as the series entered its last year of publication. Too often a rote, get-it-out-the-door quality became associated with this title, as the transition to DC's questionable '52' re-launch loomed ever-larger......

very good