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Jonah Hex (2006) (Collected Editions) #4
Jonah Hex, Vol. 4: Only the Good Die Young
Jonah Hex, a mysterious bounty hunter and thinking mans killer, was a hero to some and a villain to othersand his name was spoken in whispers.He had no friends but he did have two death and the acrid smell of gunsmoke. This volume of the bloody, hard-hitting series features the lushly illustrated adventures of Hex as he dodges bullets, rights wrongs and courts death in the Old West.
144 pages, Paperback
First published May 23, 2008
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Justin Gray
739 books80 followersJustin currently writes Novels, Graphic Novels, Video Games, Screenplays.
He has held various jobs including, fossil hunting, microphotography of 20 million year old insects and plants trapped in amber, seminars and exhibitions on the cleaning, mining and identification of prehistoric insects for the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian. He traveled to the mountains of the Dominican Republic and mined amber.
He has also worked as a victim advocate for Victims Assistance of Westchester, a not-for-profit organization that helps victims of crime.
He has held various jobs including, fossil hunting, microphotography of 20 million year old insects and plants trapped in amber, seminars and exhibitions on the cleaning, mining and identification of prehistoric insects for the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian. He traveled to the mountains of the Dominican Republic and mined amber.
He has also worked as a victim advocate for Victims Assistance of Westchester, a not-for-profit organization that helps victims of crime.
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October 5, 2018
The storytelling of these stories felt a bit clunkier than those before it. The Thomas Edison issue felt particularly odd and out of place. The Bat Lash and El Diablo story were weak as well. I think it was the attempts at telling stories from different perspectives, other than Hex's.
February 17, 2024
Jonah Hex, Vol. 4: Only the Good Die Young collects Jonah Hex #19-24. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti put pen to paper while the art chores are handled courtesy of Jordi Bernet, Phil Noto, and David Michael Beck.
This wasn't my favorite Jonah Hex collection but that's like having a mediocre orgasm. It was still pretty good. When a series is this consistently good, you start taking it for granted. Hex goes up against the usual types of shitheels and additionally a killer madam, a prairie witch, Thomas Edison, and encounters Bat Lash and El Diablo.
Not my favorite issues in the run but Gray and Palmiotti on Jonah Hex is one of the best runs of the last 30 years. Four out of five stars.
This wasn't my favorite Jonah Hex collection but that's like having a mediocre orgasm. It was still pretty good. When a series is this consistently good, you start taking it for granted. Hex goes up against the usual types of shitheels and additionally a killer madam, a prairie witch, Thomas Edison, and encounters Bat Lash and El Diablo.
Not my favorite issues in the run but Gray and Palmiotti on Jonah Hex is one of the best runs of the last 30 years. Four out of five stars.
March 28, 2016
I love Jonah Hex!
February 9, 2025
Big fan of Noto’s art on this.
April 13, 2020
Not as good as the other books in the series. The quality of storytelling has dropped to mediocrity, although the violence and grittiness remain. Jordi Bernet's art is as great as always.
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October 30, 2023More solid Jonah Hex stories. On balance, this volume is a bit weaker than the first three, but it's still enjoyable. The one where Hex and Thomas Edison discuss the future is my favorite of the bunch. Also, Bat Lash is hilarious, I love what Gray and Palmiotti do with him here.
July 1, 2021
The first less than stellar volume in the bunch - 1 issue is a real stinker with no plot or direction and the art changes seemingly every issue.
June 26, 2017
Only the Good Die Young compiles issues 19 through 24 of the second (modern) run of the Jonah Hex title. As a fan of the origin series, I find that the more recent Jonah Hex tales have a hard time living up to the first series, but in this volume there are some decent attempts.
The story-lines Texas Money and Unfinished Business are good examples that manage to capture the feel of the old series, including Jonah's habit of playing both sides. Who Lives and Who Dies is the best of the bunch, with the story's narrator giving an outside impression of Hex's outlaw morality and logic that plays to the uniqueness of the character, and also includes proper use of his military background as well.
On the weaker side is Devil's Paw, which feels like a poor attempt at capturing the mood of the series, and The Current War, which is way too heavy-handed at trying to inject "the future" into the west with referenced 'automatons' that never make a real appearance, and an Edison/Tesla war that strains credibility and - in my opinion - lands to firmly on Edison's side. Finally, there is All Hallow's Eve, which teams up Hex with classic western comic characters Bat Lash and El Diablo. You would think that this reunion would be a great look back at the old series, but overly-thick dialogue and supernatural-heavy story, combined with artwork that just doesn't feel like a Jonah Hex comic, and you get something that feels more like a bad attempt at an alternate universe reboot with nothing new to offer.
With all of this said, the good parts of this collection outweigh the bad, so it's more than worth picking up if you are following the more recent exploits of DC's greatest western comic character.
The story-lines Texas Money and Unfinished Business are good examples that manage to capture the feel of the old series, including Jonah's habit of playing both sides. Who Lives and Who Dies is the best of the bunch, with the story's narrator giving an outside impression of Hex's outlaw morality and logic that plays to the uniqueness of the character, and also includes proper use of his military background as well.
On the weaker side is Devil's Paw, which feels like a poor attempt at capturing the mood of the series, and The Current War, which is way too heavy-handed at trying to inject "the future" into the west with referenced 'automatons' that never make a real appearance, and an Edison/Tesla war that strains credibility and - in my opinion - lands to firmly on Edison's side. Finally, there is All Hallow's Eve, which teams up Hex with classic western comic characters Bat Lash and El Diablo. You would think that this reunion would be a great look back at the old series, but overly-thick dialogue and supernatural-heavy story, combined with artwork that just doesn't feel like a Jonah Hex comic, and you get something that feels more like a bad attempt at an alternate universe reboot with nothing new to offer.
With all of this said, the good parts of this collection outweigh the bad, so it's more than worth picking up if you are following the more recent exploits of DC's greatest western comic character.
November 23, 2022
“A cursed man is rarely lucky, Mister Lash.”
HELL yeah now we are back to the good stuff!
On top of using Phil Noto tremendously, this volume skirts the closest to Weird Western Tales/All-Star Western and it’s swung me back in a big, big way.
I mean, Hex shoots Edison automatons and there is a full/ass Halloween issue with El Diablo and Bat Lash. How can you NOT love a comic like that?!
But beyond the pulpiness, it’s just really strong single stories. They all look amazing and in a way that differentiates them from one another. But also keeps them rotating familiar artists throughout and allowing the whole title to have a visual consistency instead of a “house style”.
It’s like the platonic ideal of an ongoing title. It built up a whole visual and narrative vibe, it stretched it out a little bit I the last volume (arguably to a point that people coming in that late might not even be super into what the title was selling at that point; dreaded origin stories), and now we just get to really luxuriate in the good ass comics of it all. Truly so happy this reread has been as fun as it’s been so far.
HELL yeah now we are back to the good stuff!
On top of using Phil Noto tremendously, this volume skirts the closest to Weird Western Tales/All-Star Western and it’s swung me back in a big, big way.
I mean, Hex shoots Edison automatons and there is a full/ass Halloween issue with El Diablo and Bat Lash. How can you NOT love a comic like that?!
But beyond the pulpiness, it’s just really strong single stories. They all look amazing and in a way that differentiates them from one another. But also keeps them rotating familiar artists throughout and allowing the whole title to have a visual consistency instead of a “house style”.
It’s like the platonic ideal of an ongoing title. It built up a whole visual and narrative vibe, it stretched it out a little bit I the last volume (arguably to a point that people coming in that late might not even be super into what the title was selling at that point; dreaded origin stories), and now we just get to really luxuriate in the good ass comics of it all. Truly so happy this reread has been as fun as it’s been so far.
May 24, 2019
So far I have been really enjoying this series but this collection was a bit of a dud until the final story drawn to perfection by David Michael Beck which was a nice witchcraft story with Jonah meeting up with El diablo and Bat Lash. The other stories were very disjointed (the first stories moved back and forth between tales) or out of place (Jonah meeting with Edison and there being robot inventions) or pretty routine (a cultured man gets a lesson that the Wild West is no place for honor and fair trials).
I would give this collection a miss but that Halloween tale with El Diablo is a classic.
I would give this collection a miss but that Halloween tale with El Diablo is a classic.
August 7, 2019
Too bad this volume has returned to one-shots exclusively. Even worse that the stories aren't all that good. They're missing a soul and, as one-shots tend to do, don't progress the main character one bit.
Jonah gets hired to find the nephews of a rich man named Park, he kills a bank robber's gang as they try to escape a burning building he set fire to, meets Edison in whose futuristic world he feels unconfortable, guides a photographer through Apache territory and helps the spirit of El Diablo.
Jonah gets hired to find the nephews of a rich man named Park, he kills a bank robber's gang as they try to escape a burning building he set fire to, meets Edison in whose futuristic world he feels unconfortable, guides a photographer through Apache territory and helps the spirit of El Diablo.
May 4, 2018
This is a fantastic collection of stories with appearance by Bat Lash, El Diablo and, believe it or not, Thomas Edison. There are several stories that take place in parallel, which is new for this series, and some that overlap each other in terms of character. This is really a 4.5 star book, it does a lot of things perfectly.
February 26, 2025
En este tomo tenemos el ya clásico arco argumental de 6 números.
Recuperando a Quentin Turnbull y con la ayuda de los secundarios que hemos ido conociendo, nuestro anti-héroe hará un largo viaje para vengarse, dejando un rastro de cadáveres por el camino.
La historia va in crescendo y alcanza el culmen en el #47 y #48. Jonah rememorará parte de su pasado, se reunirá con viejos conocidos, matará montones de bandidos y hará lo imposible por sobrevivir y salirse con la suya.
Acción y humor a raudales, sin renunciar a los dramas de la gente de la época. No os perdáis esta historia repleta de grandes personajes. 9/10
Edición: Rústica de tapas gruesas y duras, buenas a la vista y tacto. Tamaño reducido y manejable con buen papel (cosido y encolado). Muy buena.
Un saludo.
Guion-9 Dibujo-7 Edicion-7
Recuperando a Quentin Turnbull y con la ayuda de los secundarios que hemos ido conociendo, nuestro anti-héroe hará un largo viaje para vengarse, dejando un rastro de cadáveres por el camino.
La historia va in crescendo y alcanza el culmen en el #47 y #48. Jonah rememorará parte de su pasado, se reunirá con viejos conocidos, matará montones de bandidos y hará lo imposible por sobrevivir y salirse con la suya.
Acción y humor a raudales, sin renunciar a los dramas de la gente de la época. No os perdáis esta historia repleta de grandes personajes. 9/10
Edición: Rústica de tapas gruesas y duras, buenas a la vista y tacto. Tamaño reducido y manejable con buen papel (cosido y encolado). Muy buena.
Un saludo.
Guion-9 Dibujo-7 Edicion-7
April 12, 2019
Another solid Jonah Hex collection. Hex continues to be a bastard but his sense of right and wrong is still in play. I didn't love the Thomas Edison tale but the rest of the book was still very good. The art continues to impress. Overall, another good read.
March 30, 2021
Gritty and hard. There's no room for softness in the world of Jonah Hex. Here came some of the weird western tales of steampunk and magic. Just enough to change the pace. It was a good read. Hex is an interesting character.
July 19, 2017
Bernet's issues - great, Noto - bad
January 10, 2020
More of the same. Short, sometimes gory stories that follow a linear timeline.
September 13, 2021
A slight improvement over the last volume... with some interesting twists - but in general weak and overly reliant on "I'm a bad guy with a moral code that involves killin' and violence".
April 14, 2023
Out punish the punisher
June 29, 2025
The last chapter kind of didn't fit, IMO, with the rest of the stories, but besides that very decent volume.
January 22, 2015
Übervägivaldne spagettivestern jätkub, peaosas endiselt napisõnaline põletatud ja moonutatud näoga antikangelane. Nagu ikka, 6 lugu, üks vägivaldsme kui teine. Mulle Jordi Bernet'i stiil kunstnikest ehk enim meeldib kuigi seal on teisigi üliilusaid töid. Bernet algul meeldis, siis vahepeal ei meeldinud, tundus lapsik, ja nüüd jälle väga meeldib. Eriti hästi oskab ta joonistada indiaanlasi ja skalpeerimist...:)
January 7, 2016
Jonah Hex is a bounty hunter operating in the Wild West and when I was say Wild West one should emphasize wild. It seems each volume in the Jonah Hex gets a little darker. I didn’t particularly enjoy this volume as much. There was too much references to saloons and what comes with it.
February 21, 2010
What I learned from this book and every other part of the Jonah Hex series: this is an incredibly awesome comic. The end.
June 18, 2010
Bad ass. Like reading a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western on crack.
June 19, 2010
a continually solid series month in and month out.
April 27, 2012
Yet another fun and enjoyable adventure in the "Jonah Hex" western book series.
May 6, 2013
Always solid, always good. Not the best stories in this volume, but nothing to take away from my enjoyment.
October 12, 2015
No matter how solid storytelling this was or how good the art was, this edition of Hex just wasn't the best.
October 1, 2015
Jonah är fortfarande kungen, men denna gången håller handlingen inte ihop på ett tillräckligt bra sätt. Berättelserna är helt enkelt inte lika bra som i de andra delarna.
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