At this point I don’t know what to say about All Star Western. I’ve given this series sixteen issues, well over a year, and I just can’t think of a reason to stick with it. This series has slowly went to be one of the best to one of the most mediocre DC has to offer since the relaunch. Why is that?

A lot of it has to do with the uneven art by Moritat. His style was interesting for a DC comic but now his pencils are so ugly to me. Proportions when it comes to characters vary from panel to panel. So one minute Hex in his wheelchair looks fine but then suddenly he’s two times bigger the next. The way he places his characters also doesn’t make much sense. I honestly couldn’t tell you where characters are placed in certain angles and it widely differs like everything else. It really hurts the fight sequences because you honestly can’t tell what is happening. For some reason though, Moritat can show off some brilliance like his creepy doll backgrounds for Mrs. Arkham’s room or the Black Diamond floating in the river. But really, this is just one ugly looking comic book from beginning to end.

Considering Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray have been writing Jonah Hex for seven years now it is bizarre how bad their writing is now. The pacing is all over the place with this issue. First we have Hex recovering from last week’s fight with Mr. Hyde. Then we get a quick, and unnecessary sequence with Mrs. Arkham. Which then leads too another big fight that felt really rushed and it felt like these two guys had to get this done quickly. Not even a gruff, asshole Hex can make these pages any more tolerable. I wasn’t expecting Hex to fall in love with the nurse who treats him here but she didn’t feel needed if she does practically nothing throughout.

When a shorter, back up story is the only reason to continue to buy a book then that’s not a good thing. The Tomahawk story was really the only thing worth buying this series for the longest time. But with Phil Winslade’s beautiful pencils and colors leaving now I just have no desire to keep up with this book. After catching up with Mr. Hex after the last couple of years I was really hoping this was going to be another underrated, but fantastic, series for DC. At this rate though this series has shown that maybe seven years is more than enough time for a group of people to write a character. Palmiotti and Gray has given a lot of their love to Jonah Hex but maybe now it’s time to close this chapter before it gets uglier.