Jonah Hex: The Shadow of Death #1. // Review
Brennan doesn’t like it. He’s nervous. It seems like something’s wrong. Veteran on the trail tells him it’s perfectly normal. This is his first job. It’s going to seem dangerous. Everyone’s armed and that DOES suggest the possibility of danger. Otherwise there would be not point in all of the people being there to get a cut of the pay. The old veteran is going to have a hell of a time of it. Maybe he should have been a bit more cautious in biJonah Hex: The Shadow of Death #1. Writer/artist Michael Walsh opens a. whole new series for the venerable supernatiral character from teh wild west.
Old Sam has a bad side. There aren't very many people who would want to be on it. So the kid has a choice. Either he follows through with what he's signed up to do or he leaves. And he gets on.Old Sam’s bad side. Really it shouldn't be a problem. There's four of them there. The kid is in good hands. However, when a figure approaches, I starts firing. As it turns out, things are going to be much more dangerous than they might have seemed at first glance and maybe the kid should've left when he had a chance.
Hex has been around for over half a century now. My character has never really had a reliably impressive amount of success. That being said, the basic elements of the character remain very appealing. Walsh does a good job of tapping into the proper mixture of old cowboy stories and the supernatural. It's been a fascinating and engaging mashup that has served with the genre well over the years. Success isn't always guaranteed for something like that, though. Walsh find the right energy to ground a Jonah ex story with appealing atmosphere and the right amount of mystery and action.
There's traditional cowboy imagery, and there's the supernatural. Walsh manages to find the right spot between the two different genres in which two craft a story visually. It's actually a very immersive story. Everything fits together on the paid moral as perfectly. However, in order to really tell a story that feels like it's set apart from all of the other Jonah stories that I've been told over the years, it would really need a more fragrantly, dramatic visual angle. As it is, merely feels like a traditional supernatural cowboy story done in a more contemporary style that it's been done before.
The Wynonna Earp TV adaptation remains sort of the gold standard for this type of story. The show is producers. Did a really good job of weaving old, cowboy western elements with the supernatural in a contemporary setting. As a result, the series managed a great deal, success for way more seasons than one might've expected for that sort of thing. As it is, Walsh hasn’t foudn a novel enough mixture of different narrative elements to allow this particular Hex to find the rght momentum on the page by the final panel of the first issue.
