Jonah Hex / Yosemite Sam Special #1 Is DC Comic’s Best Spaghetti Western Tale

Writer: Jimmy Palmiotti / Art: Mark Texeira / DC Comics “I don’t start but I finish you with a Earth nap E’rbody I turned into ashes, believe they earned that”- Joell Ortiz DC Comics is putting everyone on notice with these Looney Toons crossover specials. My God, each review I’m doing of these, I’m more surprised than the next. I’ve read four special so far and only one was okay. Yet, even an okay issue is still freaking genius and with how it incorporates these childhood figures into current continuity for DC Universe. As soon as I opened this issue and saw Yosemite Sam talking with his usual brash and over the top speech. I thought to myself, “Alright, this might just be the second aight issue”. I guess Palmiotti heard me cause within the second page this story said, “Waitwaitwait a minute. Who the fuck you think you talking to?” Yosemite Sam is that fucking guy, man. He’s struck it rich with a gold mine and when his employees try to run the jewels sam lets them thangs ran the fuck out.

Yosemite is headed to town to cash in on his riches when he runs across some circus folk in need. After rescuing one circus entertainer from drowning we see it’s none other than the southern gawd Foghorn Leghorn. Palmiotti does a great interaction between these two, taking account of Yosemite’s shock at this large bird person he’s seeing for the first then apologizing for his shock. While these vintage toon characters are getting acquainted, bounty hunter Jonah Hex enters and the reader se…