INKSTAND

I was pretty disappointed when I started reading this issue. The cover shows Jonah Hex shooting at robots. As I flipped through I saw that, not only does he not shoot at robots, he has a team-up with (are you ready?)…Thomas Edison. So I was kinda like “grumble..lame..grumble.” But as I got through the issue it got funnier.
You know the famous Towlie episode of South Park? My favorite part about that episode is the singular-mindedness of the children. All these insane things are happening around them and they only care about their Gamesphere. The thing we hear them say the most is: “We don’t care!” That’s kind of how Jonah Hex reacts to the various plot developments going on in this otherwise boring story.

This guy, Aubrey Booth, hires Hex to retrieve a robot that he says Edison’s men stole from him. As Booth is explaining the significance of progress and how electricity will change the world as we know it, Hex urges him to get to the freaking point! He just wants to know his job and get paid! He hunts Edison down to his hidden city in the Rockies and confers with him. The same thing happens as Edison paints visions of the future and Hex expresses how little he is interested in all of it.

At one point I’m getting really bored with Edison prattling on about progress, then there’s an explosion. Hex seems as relieved as I was, saying “Finally, a sound ah recognize.” Then some men attack the place, we find out Booth was working for Nikola Tesla, Hex shoots them up, the end.

Like I said, lame story, but there was humor as Jonah Hex never broke character.

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