I wish I had some real news for you about the upcoming Jonah Hex title instead of a goofy April Fool's post on Facebook, but for those of you who were brave enough to click the link, I can tell you that Chapter 4 of my long-running Hex history project has been updated! I’ve added lots more info, including a fuller picture of how the DC Implosion affected numerous Western characters, not just Hex, along with brief rundowns of some issues I skipped the first time around (I was really bad about that in the early days of this project). I also covered a 1978 parody of “The Last Bounty Hunter” published in The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom called "The Death of Jonah Hoax" by Eddie Eddings, which was the inspiration for this year’s April Fool on VPE. Here’s that same panel, back in its original context of “Hoax” telling fibs about his career:
Plus, if you flip back to the end of Chapter 2, you’ll find that the final
paragraphs have been rewritten, thanks to something I found last month in a 1976 issue of The Comic Reader, which
totally changed the story of how Jonah’s first self-titled book came to be. While I’m constantly apologizing for the
delays on this project’s physical release, those delays have benefited the
overall book because I keep finding more information! I suspect that’ll still be the case once this
is published…great works are never finished, just abandoned.
Anyways, Happy April Fool’s Day, have fun,
and don’t take any wooden nickels!
