A couple months ago, I got a bunch of cheap
Lone Ranger comics from the cheap bins for my dad; and he plowed through them when I was on vacation up there. He might've just been being polite, but I got some others for him from the same bins: from 2008,
the Man with No Name #1, "Sinners and Saints, chapter one" Written by Christos Gage, art by Wellington Dias.
This follows "Blondie" directly from
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; despite the fact that Dynamite would put out
a series under that name later. I had read a
couple issues of this before--and thought they might've been from the same quarter bins, but nope! It also took me a ridiculous amount of time to find that, on my own stupid blog; partly because search everywhere seems to be borked, and partly because I assumed Chuck Dixon wrote this. Still, these weren't bad, and answered a question I had from
Jonah Hex comics and
the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly comic: namely, what happens when the hero gets a big sack of gold? Answer: it's probably a pain in the ass, especially if you don't really seem to want anything? I don't love his final decision, but I guess he couldn't burn through it fast enough drinking and smoking and shooting.
I also got a reader copy of the trade, with the last five issues of the series. (I probably needed three of them...) Still, even putting aside that most fans of those movies probably have no idea these comics were made; like Marvel's
Apache Skies, I think they need to repackage these and get them on the racks wherever dad-western novels are sold.
Man that Jonah Hex movie was so bad I feel like even though it’s been what, almost 15 years since it’s come out, it’ll probably take another good 15-20 before DC, or whoever owns DC by then, decides to give it another shot. I think overall the casting was fine, aside from Fox, but then they decided to lean heavily into the supernatural powers aspect of it all, I guess because why not, it’s a comic book hero movie right? 🙄
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, the man with no name character definitely sounds like someone Chuck Dixon would write. Wonder why it never happened.
Oh, no; Chuck Dixon did get to do that the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly series; which I think would'a been later issues of this Man with No Name but I think they decided why not a new #1?
ReplyDeleteAwww gotcha. Yeah that checks out. Hell, throw in “man’s man” Beau Smith and you’ll have a good chunk of the toxic conservative comic writers fanbase covered.
DeleteDo you think he’d be interested in Green Hornet or The Shadow, or just westerns? Because I see issues of both of those in dollar bins all the time.
ReplyDeleteHe's never been a big comic reader, but he loves the Lone Ranger, and I got an old Cisco Kid comic for him. He's also a Bond fan, but I don't think he'd like the comics.
ReplyDeleteI'm not big on the Green Hornet--I thought the show and the last movie were OK, but I'm not sure I've ever read his comic! The Shadow is almost always a decent read, although you probably have to skip the Shadow Strikes based on the writer.