Review: Jonah Hex: No Way Back
What did you think of the new DC/Warner Bros. Jonah Hex film? Rotten Tomatoes reports some painful critic calculations for the movie, but what about the recent Hex graphic novel, No Way Back? Check out my review of the OGN at OneMetal. Here’s a quick preview:
DC and Warner Bros. Pictures tore up the wild west with their misfire Jonah Hex flick, which stars Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, and John Malkovich. In anticipation of the summer snooze, artist Tony DeZuniga hitched a spot on Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti’s writing team, and together the three whipped out the first-ever Jonah Hex original graphic novel. Does the comic fare differently than its Hollywood counterpart, or does the gun-slinging vigilante take center stage in a story about as interesting as a colony of prairie dogs?
I’d choose those grassland rodents any day of the week. Jonah Hex: No Way Back follows the DC icon as he traipses across the Nevada landscape in search of his long lost mother Virginia “Ginny” Dazzleby, who resorted to prostitution after abandoning a young Jonah and leaving him in the hands of an abusive, drunken father. Recounting influential moments throughout the character’s past, the book eventually forces Hex into a standoff against the savage El Papagayo and his gang of Mexican bandits.
