Justice League of America #198 Jan 1982"Once Upon a Time in the Wild, Wild West"Gerry Conway, story - Don Heck & Brett Breeding, art - Ross Andru & Romeo Tanghal, coverI stumbled upon this book completely by accident. Back in 81 I was in a different town, needed something to drink and stopped at a drugstore. There on a spinner rack was this comic. I wasn't too hep on the JLA at the time, but Jonah Hex? Yup, I'll buy that.
How great/bad is this book? Well, it's a lot better than the last JLA/Hex match-up. The art isn't as good as the cover suggests but rather than try to explain the wonder that is JLA #198, I'm gonna present the whole shooting match with short comments after each scan.
SallyP, you have to admit, that is one nice Lantern butt on the cover there (not that I notice things like that.)
1878. The timeline goes downhill from here. Since Jonah disappeared in 1875 (supposedly) this takes place after he gets back. Check the Long Voyage Home in the right gutter for a nice fan-fic about how he does that.
Jonah spies some lawyers and then notices the birds in the sky
GUESS WHO!!!
How many colors can be in the sky and there still not be a rainbow?
Judging by the burn Hal Jordan has, he must have started out as a freaking albino!!
What kinda durn fool? One that gets hit in the head more than you, Jonah. That's who.
The panel of Hex with the moon is one of the best panels in the whole book.
Amnesia, breakfast of champions.
I think the guy in red has something to do with it, ya think?
Hal Jordan, crybaby of the old west.
Butt shot number two (Ya ladies keeping track?)
Beef jerky and hardtack? What the hell happened to the soup?
Desecration, just fifty miles from Rape Innocent Women, Arizona
Cinnamon?!?!? CINNAMON?!?!? Okay, the first time Cinnamon appears is in 1898, they clearly state that she is a young woman in her twenties then, so in 1878 she would be the first infant to shoot a man's pants offa him.
sknahT, neL. I t'ndid wonk taht.
Coyote Poison, Starbucks of the Old West
Matt Savage was a would be settler? Conway wrote Scalphunter for crying out loud!! Matt Savage was a successful man and had a large acreage. (Of course, that was in the first issue written by Fleisher, but...) AAARRRGHHHH!
Ai can haz Indian Taco?
W!!?! is cougar for WTF?
I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
Note to self: Dibny backwashes in canteens.
Fires 5 times, hits 3 guns, and kills 2 hookers standing nearby.
What a pane.
"Hey, Sheriff, there's a note here from some guy from the future saying that your brother is a cheat."
Another mysterious stranger. How many is that, kids?
And here the story goes right into the crapper.
Later on, 4-armed Superman will fight 6-armed Spiderman.
Now I have to get issue 197 to see if they disappear in that issue.
... Your MOM! oh, sorry.
aka my sister-in-law's mouth (not really. I kid because I love)
Kal-El, punching rockets since 1938
"This was pretty easy, I'll fly down into that green glow, because... oh, crap I just had a senior moment!"
What kinda half-life does kryptonite
HAVE anyway? That crap is still deadly after 2000 years?
Okay, so the evil plan includes a huge explosion in 1907 (which is the same year Oklahoma became a state. The more you know...)
Okay, now the plan includes an anti-matter meteor from 1907
And the same thing happened in 1878 over the Grand Canyon? What the Hell? Okay, so now the plan includes an anti-matter bubble from 1878 instead of an anti-matter meteor from 1907. I can see how that is an improvement in any evil plan. I prefer
my evil plans to have bubbles instead of meteors.
1981 = teh sux
So the Time Lord is using the JLA to ... do something regarding an anti-matter bubble in 1878. I guess there was too much competition from the Time-Trapper for the 1907 anti-matter meteor.
and we had to wait a month...but YOU just have to wait about a week....
cuz it takes a hella long time to scan all this!