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    Jonah Hex #31

    Jonah Hex » Jonah Hex #31 - The ManKiller! released by DC Comics on December 1979.

    Jonah Hex learns a lesson from the best bounty hunter in the West.

    gc8's Jonah Hex #31 - The ManKiller! review

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    Substandard Issue

    Continuing the story of how Hex became a bounty hunter.
    Continuing the story of how Hex became a bounty hunter.

    The full title of this story is 'Arbee Soneham.. Man Killer!'. It's the second installment in the story about how Jonah Hex went from Confederate soldier to bounty hunter.

    This issue seems a bit hastily done. The art is nowhere near as good as the previous issue, and the story is chock full of convenient coincidences to move the plot along.

    After tracking down and hanging the men who robbed the town bank, the sheriff suggests that Jonah may have a future in bounty hunting, and shows him a wanted poster for Eddie Cantwell - Jonah's old army buddy. Then, no sooner do they arrive back in town when who does Hex run into in the street but Eddie Cantwell. If that isn't enough of a coincidence, Cantwell proceeds to rob the town bank (again), and Hex has to chase him down. Unbeknownst to Hex, the gang (and now he too) is being tracked by the best bounty hunter in the West, Arbee Stoneham.

    It's all a little too much coincidence and hurried art. About average for a western comic book, but not the great storytelling we've come to expect from Jonah Hex.

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