Haven't posted in a while, so I reckoned I should catch y'all up on some things...
Not doing many con appearances this year -- I plan on buckling down to get the next Swords & Sixguns novel done -- but I do have two scheduled. For those of you in the Port Huron, MI area, I'll be appearing at Bluewater International Comic-Con March 30-31. I had a great time last year and managed to sell 10 books (a one-day record for me), so I'm hoping to do even better with it being a two-day show this time around. Advance tickets are still on sale, or you can buy 'em at the Bluewater Convention Center the day of the show. Stop by my table and say hello! Also, I will be out and about again on Free Comic Book Day, this time setting up my table at Comix Corner in Fraser, MI. I'll post more details about that gig when we get closer to it.
In other news, I'm partnering up with some other Hex-nuts to start a podcast called "Jonah Hex, Via Pony Express" (yep, same as the Facebook page). We've done a couple of recording sessions, but nothing has posted yet. I will let y'all know as soon as episodes become available.
Speaking of Hex, if you're unaware, the old buzzard has been popping up quite a bit in the last 6 months. First there was the news that Brian Michael Bendis was creating a new great-great-granddaughter for him named Jinny Hex (though we don't now much about her yet, I've already given her an entry on the Hex family tree). She debuted in the Walmart-exclusive Batman Giant #4 back in October 2018 then moved on to Bendis's revival of the Young Justice title in January 2019. From what I hear, we'll get the full skinny on her lineage around YJ#5 due out in May, so there's that to look forward to.
After her debut, I figured that'd be the end of Hex-related stuff in those Walmart books, but nope, the next month I got word that the old man himself popped up in Justice League Giant #5, fighting alongside Wonder Woman of all people! Turned out Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Conner were writing that one, so I guess Jimmy just couldn't resist picking up Jonah's story from where he left off in 2014: the boat he and Tallulah bought is mentioned, and though his facial scar is back, I reckon the plastic surgery he received might've gotten undone somehow. That story is still going on, having recently moved over to the new Wonder Woman Giant.
The same month WWG#1 hit Walmart, Batman Giant #8 also featured Jonah, in connection to the same story that saw the debut of Jinny Hex, and it appears he'll be in at least one more issue before moseying on. Basically, if you're a Hex-nut and you don't live near a Walmart that stocks these, you're screwed (for that reason, we've been posting scans of both the Wonder Woman stuff and the Batman stuff over at VPE, though I've heard they may be available in regular comic shops soon). Oh, and it appears that a possibly-robotic version of Hex will be appearing in Adventures of the Super-Sons #9 this April...so for those of you keeping score, Jonah Hex and/or folks related to him in some fashion will be featured in four separate titles over the next couple of months, a rare occurrence in his 5 decades of existence. Hey, DC, howsabout ya take the hint your own writers are dropping and give the old man his own series again, eh?
Okay, that's abut all I have to say at the moment. See ya 'round the Interwebs!
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