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Post by arcalian on Oct 20, 2010 21:43:48 GMT -5
Please let us know your thoughts!
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Post by Matt Erkhart on Nov 16, 2010 11:58:21 GMT -5
Brilliant. I've just spent a good chunk of my morning at work reading through the first 3 issues, and I have to say these are GREAT.
The tone of this is beatiful, the plot has been riveting, the dialogue is spot-on (I'm a Georgia boy myself, so I know Southern!)... As each scene ends, I just want there to have been more, only to have it replaced by the next, which is even better.
I've never much liked Jonah Hex, but suddenly this is a character I care about. An all-too-human, long-dead old man suddenly living as a technically-undead young one...
It's compelling and original, and I find you're capturing a range of genuine emotion far better here than in the published comics, both Jonah Hex as a title, and all the Blackest Night books.
I think what I'm enjoying most is how Jonah sees how the people around him truly feel, and it's reminding him what it means to be human, even if he has been a corpse for a century or so. And the whole thing feels like an old western, which is so much fun!
Excellent work... Just brilliant.
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Post by Susan Hillwig on Nov 18, 2010 13:53:24 GMT -5
And Matt officially becomes out FIRST comment poster for Shades of Gray. Congratulations, Matt, you win nothing but my undying gratitude! ;D
I've been a Jonah Hex fan for 20 years now, and I've been writing Hex-fics for 5 (go check out WWQ if you haven't already!), so I reckon I've got his rhythm down by now. It's been grand fun dropping him into this situation and figuring out how he'd react to it. He is a normal guy (a bastard, yeah, but normal nonetheless), so I think his reactions come off the way most people's would, as opposed to all these superheroes and villains that deal with weirdness on a regular basis. Trapped in a corpse for a hundred years, then resurrected into a world that he only vaguely understands, plus all the problems this black ring has saddled him with...how does a normal person cope with all that?
Emotions are definitely a key to the story. The old Jonah was not one who showed his hand much, so to speak. But this "new" Jonah has been out of contact with humanity for so long that just being around people and talking to them is a novelty. It's changed him in ways that will become more evident as the series goes on.
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