Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti really know what they're doing when it comes to Jonah Hex. They've been the writers behind his best adventures for years if not decades now, and even the New 52 can't knock them off track. Set in 19th century Gotham, Hex ends up on two adventures with unlikely sidekick Amadeus Arkham, the founder of the asylum (still in the future). The odd couple team-up works really well, as Arkham spends half of his time psychoanalyzing Hex's behavior, and the other half shrink...

After catching P/G's fun run on Power Girl, I figured these guys would have a fun take on the old Jonah Hex & company mythology. Not. Even. Close.Why did they decide to suck out all the fun by narrating this story with a psychological discourse on the inner workings of a cypher like Jonah Hex? Talk about bashing in the skull of a great universe - turning it into a lecture or treatise, deconstructing Jonah. Bo-ring. Aaron did a great thing with Bullseye trying to get into Frank Castle's head in t...

Gotham, 1880s, and Jonah Hex rocks up to the burgeoning city with his eye on a bounty for a trio of bank robbers but gets more than he bargained for when he becomes embroiled in a plot involving Gotham’s richest and most powerful and a series of grisly murders. I was hoping for a more inspired take on the western genre but unfortunately all the stories here are pretty standard hero + sidekick vs. the baddies templates. Joining Hex is Amadeus Arkham, a prominent psychologist yet to establish the

Not bad. At first I wondered what Jonah Hex would be doing in Gotham City, but they came up with a plausible reason. The backup stories weren't bad, though the El Diablo one was kind of meh. I wish I were more familiar with DC's western heroes because I honestly have no clue who that guy at the end of the Hex story is. All will be made clear in volume 2, I'm sure.

Holy F@&$. I'm so sorry for just straight out dismissing this book from jump street. It's just... I mean, your Jonah Hex run was just so damn terrible, unreadable even, that I thought this would be more of the same. Gray and Palmiotti though must have had a serious education in both Sherlock Holmes media and a boatload of spaghetti Westerns to boot. Because they nail this one. They nail it and own it. I can't recommend the book enough. But before I go too far, really, the shining star here is Mo...

Jonah Hex aka The Sexiest Man Alive.Well, I didn't hate it.And I really thought I would, because Westerns are soooo not my thing.I don't wish I could travel back in time and be a gunslinger in the Old West. I don't fantasize about riding a dusty unwashed cowboy into the sunset. And I don't want to go have a drink in some establishment called Saloon. Hell, I don't even like horses! They're expensive, time consuming, and every time you turn around those fragile bastards are sick or hurt.I see a lo...

one of the best of the New 52. top of my pile every month.

All-Star Western #1 is a much different comic book than #0. Whereas #0 has a wide-open panel design that beautifully illustrates the expansive vistas of the Old West, #1 is set in Gotham and hence the panel design is a lot more restricted, cluttered, and even claustrophobic. The artwork by Moritat is masterful, not just in the panel design, but in the renderings that marry both the dark mood of the Western Comics of my day (70s and 80s) with the glossy design of 2011. Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin

Reprints All-Star Western (3) #1-6 (November 2011-April 2012). Jonah Hex is a bounty hunter and just rolled into Gotham City. Matching wits with a serial killer, Jonah and his unlikely ally Amadeus Arkham find themselves in more trouble than expected. A trip to the underground in search of stolen children also leads to a confrontation with the legendary Miagani and a demon of immense size. Also El Diablo confronts a town overrun by the undead and a girl known as the Barbary Ghost sets out to ave...

I bought this because I like the Jonah Hex character, but this collection was a tie-in work bringing Hex to a western age Gotham City. There were various setups to connect this story with the future Batman tales and I didn't think they worked all that well. The writing and art are fine but I didn't find the story lines very compelling. I normally finish graphic novels in a day but this one took me a while just because I wasn't that interested in it. Others might feel differently.

All Star Western features Jonah Hex, an anti-hero so grizzled that Hollywood executives decided they had no choice but to cast Megan Fox by his side when producing the movie edition:Alas, this book does not feature the talented Ms. Fox. Instead, Jonah spends the six issues in this collection running around 19th century Gotham City. In the first half, the hardworking whores of Gotham are being targeted by a serial killer, and the inept Gotham police department isn’t able to solve the problem (I g...

I started reading this series solely because I have a soft spot in my heart for classic Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, and thought it'd be interesting to see a comic book twist on it. It also didn't hurt that Palmiotti & Gray's year-spanning run on this series has reached relative acclaim.It gets the job done, I guess. It had less of the wacky spaghetti western feel, and more of a realistic western atmosphere, kind of like the movie Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (in my...

This was a good read. Jonah Hex is a hero whose demeanor is as disreputable as his appearance. He's not afraid to get his hands dirty, and probably enjoys violence too much. But he's not an amoral killer either. He makes his way to Gotham, and that place is definitely in need of a tough hero like him. Set in the late 1800s, more than a 100 years before Bruce Wayne is born, but Gotham is already a cesspool of corruption in the making. There is already a secret society who really runs things, and

An interesting and varied addition to the New 52, though the fact that the main protagonist is little more than a grumpy gunslinger kind of hurts it. If not for Dr. Arkham, I don't think this would have been quite as good. The back-up stories are also great, considering how short they are, and I'd like to see both characters appear in the main series at some point too.

The old Jonah Hex series that just ended before this was great,gritty western series. One of the most acclaimed series on the US comics market. I enjoyed it because it was the only great western out there.This series is not badly written or bad art but it has completely sold out its western genre,fans who enjoyed Jonah Hex. The title lies the stories are more supernatural Gotham stories i read 8 issues and they were all set in Gotham,about Batman villains,sects. About Dr. Arkham and recent issue...

I've been looking forward to this one, and it didn't disappoint. I'm a fan of westerns and love them in any format. This is kind of an anthology of stories all taking place in the 1880s in western America. The first and longest story features Jonah Hex who takes up two different cases in Gotham City with Dr. Amadeus Arkham as his sidekick. Next up is El Diablo helping out a town under an Indian curse and finally, we meet The Barbary Ghost and her mission of vengeance against the man who killed a...

Not bad but no where close to the pre 52 Jonah Hex run. Interesting enough to keep going.

I read a lot of the pre new 52 jonah hex trades by Palmioti and Gray and I really liked those. So naturaly I did pick up the new 52 jonah hex series by those two. Jonah Hex has by editorial decree relocated to Gotham city and solves murders, finds criminals and rescues people over there. He is allied with doc Arkham, an early adaptor to psychology and scientific ways to crimesolving. I liked the jonah hex in gotham story less than I liked the pre 52 run of jonah hex. I feel that there is somethi...

Jonah Hex comes to Gotham and teams up with the founder of Arkham Asylum to track down the Gotham Butcher. Lots of little tie-ins here with the Court of Owls and the Religion of Crime. Then Hex and Arkham go after a missing child ins a story ripped out of Temple of Doom. I like Moritat's moody art for a Western. The backup stories of El Diablo and Barbary Ghost were subpar.

Fabulous! Loved the time period, the setting, Jonah Hex in Gotham, the Barbary Ghost and El Diablo plus zombies.