What a Disappointment
After more than a dozen issues, Michael Fleisher finally brings to a close the Wyandott murders story arc, and it's a pretty big disappointment.
To begin with the capture of Jonah Hex just isn't believable. The hunters pursuing him are just three men, yet he never once reaches for his guns and attempts to shoot his way out - even when they trap him in a cave and smoke him out! This just isn't the way Jonah Hex would act.
So they catch him and immediately string him up - trouble is, he survives the hanging and is cut down by someone who happens by after the men leave - trouble here is a basic misunderstanding of how hanging works - it doesn't kill by asphyxiation, hanging kills by breaking the victim's neck!
While he was hanging, Hex flashes back to the events that led up to this point - a convenient summary for the reader, except it's events in Wyandott that Hex wasn't even there for (as is pointed out later in the issue) and ought not have any recollection of.
Get by both of those things, and then there is the bad dialogue - one character observing this from hiding actually talks to himself out loud in the most cheesy villain dialogue imaginable - and he's not the only one - there's a lot of really badly written dialogue throughout.
The man who rescues Hex happens to be an expert in both fingerprint analysis and ballistics science - this seems like an awful huge coincidence, but even if we accept that, the chance that these infant sciences would be accepted in a court of law in the Old West seems to really stretch the credibility.
Also, The Chameleon is back, and I'm willing to accept him as a master of disguise, but in this issue his disguises are nothing short of shape-shifting level, as he impersonates two people so well that people who see them every day can't even tell the difference! At one point he and the person he impersonates stand beside one another and no one can tell them apart!
One of the weakest issues of Jonah Hex ever, and a disappointing end to a long-running plot line.