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Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Jonah Two Gun Mojo (DC Comics Vertigo (Paperback) 1994). Collects Jonah Hex Two Gun Mojo issues 1-5. Ver good condition except very slight signs of previous sticker removal.
157 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1994
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Joe R. Lansdale
822 books3,904 followersChampion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.
He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.
He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.
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April 12, 2019
Weird western at its best, a main character that seems just out from Sergio Leone's spaghetti-western Dollars Trilogy (I was just reading Hex's balloons with Clint Eastwood's voice in my mind), gore, ultra-violence, bad jokes and a strong 2000 AD british comics magazine vibe.
Lansdale and Truman are just a dream-team here and this random impulse purchase was just an unexpected surprise for me.
A real gem if you are into weird/horror/western genre.
January 19, 2021
3.5 stars
"I, for one, came here for a hangin' and a picnic, and I say we do 'em both! Come on, people, the fried chicken's gettin' cold! LET'S HAVE US A HANGIN'!!!" -- angry elderly townswoman, brandishing a pistola in one hand and a half-eaten drumstick in the other, atop her trusty steed
"I hadn't never see anyone so upset over a hangin' fallin' through as them folks. You'd think they'd come up with some other form of entertainment to fall back on when things didn't work out. Horseshoes, maybe? But I figured if they was all that disappointed, I could still show 'em a good time." -- the thoughts of Jonah Hex, while being pursued by upset citizenry of Mud Creek
Well, this one was was . . . different. Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo is one crazily hyper-brutal and darkly humorous graphic-novel tale set in the post-U.S Civil War western frontier, featuring an antihero protagonist who drops enough bodies to keep several undertakers gainfully employed into the next decade. Our man Hex is a scarred former Confederate Army officer, haunted by harsh experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg (where his side sustained a devastating loss), now roaming the plains as a wanted man with a dangerous reputation. (In other words, one tough and growly son of a b**** a la Eastwood's Man With No Name.) To try to explain the bloodily bizarre plot would do it absolutely no justice, but it involves an evil traveling medicine / carnival freak show - including a zombified-version of legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok (!) - that dabbles in mind-control potions and cannibalism for the obvious nefarious purposes. Once the proverbial lead starts flying - and enough ammunition is fired throughout to sink an entire fleet of battleships - both the action and the cynicism kick into high gear. Pretty much any character introduced, whether human or animal, is living on borrowed time. If you're offended or easily disgusted by violence, proceed with caution on this one.
"I, for one, came here for a hangin' and a picnic, and I say we do 'em both! Come on, people, the fried chicken's gettin' cold! LET'S HAVE US A HANGIN'!!!" -- angry elderly townswoman, brandishing a pistola in one hand and a half-eaten drumstick in the other, atop her trusty steed
"I hadn't never see anyone so upset over a hangin' fallin' through as them folks. You'd think they'd come up with some other form of entertainment to fall back on when things didn't work out. Horseshoes, maybe? But I figured if they was all that disappointed, I could still show 'em a good time." -- the thoughts of Jonah Hex, while being pursued by upset citizenry of Mud Creek
Well, this one was was . . . different. Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo is one crazily hyper-brutal and darkly humorous graphic-novel tale set in the post-U.S Civil War western frontier, featuring an antihero protagonist who drops enough bodies to keep several undertakers gainfully employed into the next decade. Our man Hex is a scarred former Confederate Army officer, haunted by harsh experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg (where his side sustained a devastating loss), now roaming the plains as a wanted man with a dangerous reputation. (In other words, one tough and growly son of a b**** a la Eastwood's Man With No Name.) To try to explain the bloodily bizarre plot would do it absolutely no justice, but it involves an evil traveling medicine / carnival freak show - including a zombified-version of legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok (!) - that dabbles in mind-control potions and cannibalism for the obvious nefarious purposes. Once the proverbial lead starts flying - and enough ammunition is fired throughout to sink an entire fleet of battleships - both the action and the cynicism kick into high gear. Pretty much any character introduced, whether human or animal, is living on borrowed time. If you're offended or easily disgusted by violence, proceed with caution on this one.
August 3, 2015
Yep, still doing some comic catchup before possibly having to lose all of them in an upcoming move (end of kvetching).
Joe Lansdale brings his noir and horror style to DC Comics' Jonah Hex. If there was a Western character tailored for aforesaid style it is the disfigured Hex. Lansdale's humor works here, as Hex is constantly asked about his disfigured face, and he tosses off one sentence replies (I scratched myself with a toothpick). Lansdale also maintains Hex's early anti-hero portrayal, because let's be honest Jonah is not a nice guy. If anything Hex is comics first honest attempt at an Italian Western character (aka Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name).
Hex ends up being hunted for someone he actually didn't kill, which is amazing considering the body count he does manage to amass. Add to this Hex is tracking a medicine show where it appears at least one of the freaks is a zombie gunfighter,.
Some might find the violence and horror a little too graphic for their taste (trust me this is no where nearly as bad or offensive as Avatar Publishing's Crossed). However I do feel obligated to make a potential reader aware of the human cannibalism and graphic death scenes.
Joe Lansdale brings his noir and horror style to DC Comics' Jonah Hex. If there was a Western character tailored for aforesaid style it is the disfigured Hex. Lansdale's humor works here, as Hex is constantly asked about his disfigured face, and he tosses off one sentence replies (I scratched myself with a toothpick). Lansdale also maintains Hex's early anti-hero portrayal, because let's be honest Jonah is not a nice guy. If anything Hex is comics first honest attempt at an Italian Western character (aka Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name).
Hex ends up being hunted for someone he actually didn't kill, which is amazing considering the body count he does manage to amass. Add to this Hex is tracking a medicine show where it appears at least one of the freaks is a zombie gunfighter,.
Some might find the violence and horror a little too graphic for their taste (trust me this is no where nearly as bad or offensive as Avatar Publishing's Crossed). However I do feel obligated to make a potential reader aware of the human cannibalism and graphic death scenes.
September 10, 2018
I’m usually a believer in the truism that: You can’t judge a book by its cover. However, if there was ever a counter argument, the suitably semi-misnamed named, “Two Gun Mojo,” could certainly make a strong case. Along with (or hypothetically without) his eponymously matching revolvers, Stetson hat, spurs, holster, and such, Hex makes for an unmistakable cowboy. If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck and… we’ve heard this before – you know what’s up. But disappointingly enough, this frontiersman is something of a one trick quack as we’ll see by the end of the final issue.
While the title well describes the weaponry of the cowboy, our main character has anything but mojo. In fact, other than his characteristically face-deforming scar and red glass eye, there is nothing distinctly energetic nor magic about him. Strangely devoid of anything even somewhat resembling supernormal powers (besides a few particularly impossibly, masturbatory gun-driven acrobatics) the cowboy within is decidedly, quite un-comicy* in his way.
Without those typical brushstrokes of the divine and the impossible that characteristically define demarcations of sequential art, our first 2-3 issues reflect a far more realistic panorama of people and places. Featuring an intentional rescue from a noose that couldn’t have happened with two shakes of a lamb’s tail less, our (not-) hero is not only freed but, gains an erstwhile ally in a scene that unabashedly (and liberally) samples Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. This heftily reduplicated introductory sample well sets the stage for the rest of the settings that while (seemingly enough,) reflecting the visuals of that bygone world well, are lip-swishingly bereft of originality and creativity. Sans a unique vision, the result retains it’s cardboard replicator feel in both taste and tone throughout.
Without an overarching arc (as it were) two jumbly stories are tethered with betrayal, bullets, and a solid chunk of already established material. And even when a few curveballs are tossed such as carnie-magic and zombie (think a crude magical realism), these micro-experiments fail because the established world has been effectively denuded of the imaginative in favor reality’s grit. Which should have pushed the story into an effectively an enjoyable realm deserving of the Vertigo Imprimatur. However, Two Gun Mojo falls short not just of it’s excellent source material but craters against its very comic book peers that have mined the same mines and produced stellar stories of a far higher degree of quality: Moebius’ Blueberry and Azzarello’s Loveless immediately spring to mind.
Both of which successfully capitalized on their themes through their accepted visions of realness. Jonah Hex, on the other hand, seemingly wants to be something of a hybrid that can hybridize both the real and the imaginative. The result is overwhelmingly meh. Having established a world that reflects (our) world values well, the inclusion of the fantastical (i.e. carnie-magic and undead zombies) comes across a bad mis-match at best, and insipid insertion at best.
Left clunkier than funkier, Jonah Hex’s sure got his two guns but nothing in the way of soul.
While the title well describes the weaponry of the cowboy, our main character has anything but mojo. In fact, other than his characteristically face-deforming scar and red glass eye, there is nothing distinctly energetic nor magic about him. Strangely devoid of anything even somewhat resembling supernormal powers (besides a few particularly impossibly, masturbatory gun-driven acrobatics) the cowboy within is decidedly, quite un-comicy* in his way.
Without those typical brushstrokes of the divine and the impossible that characteristically define demarcations of sequential art, our first 2-3 issues reflect a far more realistic panorama of people and places. Featuring an intentional rescue from a noose that couldn’t have happened with two shakes of a lamb’s tail less, our (not-) hero is not only freed but, gains an erstwhile ally in a scene that unabashedly (and liberally) samples Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. This heftily reduplicated introductory sample well sets the stage for the rest of the settings that while (seemingly enough,) reflecting the visuals of that bygone world well, are lip-swishingly bereft of originality and creativity. Sans a unique vision, the result retains it’s cardboard replicator feel in both taste and tone throughout.
Without an overarching arc (as it were) two jumbly stories are tethered with betrayal, bullets, and a solid chunk of already established material. And even when a few curveballs are tossed such as carnie-magic and zombie (think a crude magical realism), these micro-experiments fail because the established world has been effectively denuded of the imaginative in favor reality’s grit. Which should have pushed the story into an effectively an enjoyable realm deserving of the Vertigo Imprimatur. However, Two Gun Mojo falls short not just of it’s excellent source material but craters against its very comic book peers that have mined the same mines and produced stellar stories of a far higher degree of quality: Moebius’ Blueberry and Azzarello’s Loveless immediately spring to mind.
Both of which successfully capitalized on their themes through their accepted visions of realness. Jonah Hex, on the other hand, seemingly wants to be something of a hybrid that can hybridize both the real and the imaginative. The result is overwhelmingly meh. Having established a world that reflects (our) world values well, the inclusion of the fantastical (i.e. carnie-magic and undead zombies) comes across a bad mis-match at best, and insipid insertion at best.
Left clunkier than funkier, Jonah Hex’s sure got his two guns but nothing in the way of soul.
October 12, 2021
Nice weird western story. Truman's art is a perfect fit for this. Recommended
July 4, 2013
Sometimes things aren't the same in our memory as they are in reality. A case in point are the old Jonah Hex comics. As a kid, I would see the covers and be freaked out, mostly by Jonah's frightening face. Now I'm not sure how many of these comics I actually read, but my impression of these books were that they were a mix of western and horror or supernatural elements. Well, cut to forty years later when I pick up Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex and discover that these tales aren't that weird at all.
Perhaps that is why I love this graphic novel. Writer Joe R. Lansdale in his introduction explains that he had this same type of false memory, and that his intent here was to actually inject more "weird" supernatural elements into a Jonah story. The result is probably the best Jonah Hex story I've ever read.
The story has Hex on the trail of some stolen corpses, which leads him to a bizarre traveling sideshow featuring a zombie Wild Bill Hickok. Lansdale manages to tell this story in a way that is both hilariously funny and creepily bleak. He blends sharp Texas humor with a grim mood of death and decay, then tops its all off with a large helping of very brutal violence.
The art just adds to the insanity here. Timothy Truman and Sam Glanzman work in a rough-hewn style that is often brightly colored but
grimy, atmospheric and slightly off-kilter.
This really is the kind of Jonah Hex book that lives up to the character's previously unmet possibilities. Great stuff.
Perhaps that is why I love this graphic novel. Writer Joe R. Lansdale in his introduction explains that he had this same type of false memory, and that his intent here was to actually inject more "weird" supernatural elements into a Jonah story. The result is probably the best Jonah Hex story I've ever read.
The story has Hex on the trail of some stolen corpses, which leads him to a bizarre traveling sideshow featuring a zombie Wild Bill Hickok. Lansdale manages to tell this story in a way that is both hilariously funny and creepily bleak. He blends sharp Texas humor with a grim mood of death and decay, then tops its all off with a large helping of very brutal violence.
The art just adds to the insanity here. Timothy Truman and Sam Glanzman work in a rough-hewn style that is often brightly colored but
grimy, atmospheric and slightly off-kilter.
This really is the kind of Jonah Hex book that lives up to the character's previously unmet possibilities. Great stuff.
June 29, 2021
Classic character in classic style.
November 29, 2019
The book has got beautiful illustrations by Timothy Truman and Sam Glanzman, which perfectly captures the gritty western era.
The plot is a typical western story, albeit with a little mix-up of ZOMBIES!
The book is weird and crazy, but definitely an entertaining read.
The plot is a typical western story, albeit with a little mix-up of ZOMBIES!
The book is weird and crazy, but definitely an entertaining read.
June 18, 2010
A great pairing of writer and artist with subject matter. This is far and away my favorite version of Jonah Hex. I'm writing this review now because it sounds like the worst incarnation of the character is about to be unleashed on the world thanks to Hollywood.
This collection is great, but the other Jonah Hex story by Lansdale/Truman, called 'Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such' is even better. Sadly, it seems to be unavailable as a trade paperback, probably due to a lawsuit by albino bluesmen Johnathan and Edger Winters, who were hilariously parodied in that story.
That lawsuit is an interesting first amendment story in its own right, and worth reading about here:
http://archives.tcj.com/254/n_winters...
This collection is great, but the other Jonah Hex story by Lansdale/Truman, called 'Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such' is even better. Sadly, it seems to be unavailable as a trade paperback, probably due to a lawsuit by albino bluesmen Johnathan and Edger Winters, who were hilariously parodied in that story.
That lawsuit is an interesting first amendment story in its own right, and worth reading about here:
http://archives.tcj.com/254/n_winters...
October 5, 2011
Joe Lansdale confirma su experiencia en el Weird Western reinventando a un veterano de los títulos DC. Balas, zombies y Wild Bill Hickok junto a un Hex en su faceta más implacable.
April 12, 2016
I love Jonah Hex! That is all.
October 24, 2017
Love Jonah Hex!
Langsdale wrote with such ease and Truman truly is an impeccable Western artist!
I loved the story, although, at times, it dragged and lulled a bit more than other Hex books I've read.
The classic tale of Hex is almost notably the same, yet it never grows boring and never turns stale.
Hex is simply that complex a comic character that writers and artists should never run out of material wealth.
Now, I just need to watch the cartoons that go along with this Volume!
Langsdale wrote with such ease and Truman truly is an impeccable Western artist!
I loved the story, although, at times, it dragged and lulled a bit more than other Hex books I've read.
The classic tale of Hex is almost notably the same, yet it never grows boring and never turns stale.
Hex is simply that complex a comic character that writers and artists should never run out of material wealth.
Now, I just need to watch the cartoons that go along with this Volume!
April 5, 2020
I do not know anything about Jonah Hex and I don't generally like Western as a genre. Yet, I enjoyed this story a lot; it has lots of characters and you can see that Lansdale really cares about the character. Truman's style really worked well with the tone of the story; I will check his other works too. It will make me watch the Jonah Hex movie; whether this is a good or a bad thing remains to be seen :)
April 4, 2024
Bu üç kişi nasıl bir araya geldi hayret etsem de iyi ki gelmişlerden öte bir yoeum yapamayacağım.
Ünlü bir yazar iyi ve vahşi bir çizer son olarak da veteran bir çinici Vertigo'nun neredeyse ilk serilerinden olan Two Gun Mojo'yu bizlere armağan etmişler.Genel olarak o sıkıcı anlatımdan kopup abi western yaa ne kadar güzel olabilir ki? Önyargısını o dönem için kırmışlar.
Ha ben ekioteki herkesi ve Jonah Hex'i sevdiğimden 4 puan verdim ama günümüzde o kadar iyi sayılmaz dönemine göre mükemmel.
Ünlü bir yazar iyi ve vahşi bir çizer son olarak da veteran bir çinici Vertigo'nun neredeyse ilk serilerinden olan Two Gun Mojo'yu bizlere armağan etmişler.Genel olarak o sıkıcı anlatımdan kopup abi western yaa ne kadar güzel olabilir ki? Önyargısını o dönem için kırmışlar.
Ha ben ekioteki herkesi ve Jonah Hex'i sevdiğimden 4 puan verdim ama günümüzde o kadar iyi sayılmaz dönemine göre mükemmel.
February 19, 2021
This was surprisingly boring. It was a passive and reactionary story with little drive. Hex is an interesting character and has fun quirks. Overall, a somewhat fun comic to see because it is a bit of a landmark for Hex in comics, but sadly not engaging or memorable.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 6, 2023
Zabavni monolozi, dovoljno da sakriju da sama priča nije neko ludilo. Nisam nikad bio pretjerani fan Truman/Glanzman kombinacije na crtežu, ali mora se priznati da njihov sirovi, ružnjikavi stil daje određenu odgovarajuće bljutavu, brutalnu atmosferu.
February 3, 2018
Somewhat crude art but lots of humor and an engaging story make for on overall great read.
January 3, 2022
Way too violent for me. Lots of blood and icky descriptions.
January 13, 2022
I have a different cover than this one. Issue 2 of 5. Definitely not a stand alone issue as I have no idea what's going on.
June 14, 2022
Entertaining story with a good collection of freakshow bad guys, enjoyed the Western mix with voodoo magic.
September 29, 2022
Great read.
February 2, 2025
Mediocre narrative; average artwork at best; no one’s best effort. Read something else.
February 2, 2017
Revisiting my own collection, here's a beauty. Joe R Lansdale and Tim Truman on the scarred ex-Confederate Civil War veteran bounty hunter. Hex is one of those fought-for-my-land-not-for-slavery types one tends to look on with some skepticism nowadays, but there isn't much in the way of soft nostalgia for ol' Dixie in these pages. The whole thing is mean and ornery and wild and violent.
Two Gun Mojo sees Hex, after a run-in with a town-turned-lynch-mob, gunning after a travelling circus wagon run by the strange and horrible Doc Williams. Williams may or may not be reviving the dead in some sort of voodoo mojo, or he may be just giving people brain damage, either way he has his little gang of zombie slves, including someone who may or may not be Wild Bill Hickock, and Hex intends to put and end to him.
Lansdale and Truman make a terrific team, the dialogue is funny and the yarn is downright demented.
Two Gun Mojo sees Hex, after a run-in with a town-turned-lynch-mob, gunning after a travelling circus wagon run by the strange and horrible Doc Williams. Williams may or may not be reviving the dead in some sort of voodoo mojo, or he may be just giving people brain damage, either way he has his little gang of zombie slves, including someone who may or may not be Wild Bill Hickock, and Hex intends to put and end to him.
Lansdale and Truman make a terrific team, the dialogue is funny and the yarn is downright demented.
February 20, 2015
I don't really remember what inspired me to pick this up, but it was a pretty worth while comic. I was not familiar with the character other than the awful movie that came out a few years ago, but this was fun. At first the artwork looks kind of shoddy, but as you read it that definitely seem intentional.
Hex's face - and he is awfully ugly - is almost like character itself and really adds dimension to the character. Worth the read, fun to have in the collection.
Hex's face - and he is awfully ugly - is almost like character itself and really adds dimension to the character. Worth the read, fun to have in the collection.
May 28, 2012
Weird and great, jonah hex blasts his way through a crazy wild west, populated with zombies, angry townspeople and bitter Indians. Somehow Hex manages to be both pulpy and pithy, reminding me of the gore of 200AD, while also addressing some deeper issues as well, including mob justice, racism, and murder.
March 10, 2022
Great combination of western action, humor, and the supernatural. Truman's art is a great fit for the character and tone as well. This was my introduction to Jonah Hex and really left me wanting more. Unfortunately none of the later Vertigo Hex entries could match this.
June 20, 2009
Clever mix of western and horror. Plenty of violence, better than average art.
June 9, 2010
Re-read this because the film is coming up and was shocked at how well it heald up. This was my favorite incarnation of Jonah Hex.
March 3, 2011
AWESOME!
December 29, 2011
Lansdale does right by Jonah.
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