Lansdale is a writer with a fair amount of experience with Westerns, and Truman is well known for grim and disturbing art. Together, they’ve put together an ultra violent story of their version of Jonah Hex designed to bring the scarred cowboy to Vertigo’s audience.

It’s amazing how a work can be considered legendary and obscure at the same time. Concrete, by Paul Chadwick, is capable of evoking eerie horror, humor dark and light, tenderness, laugh out loud moments, and disgust. A human story, in every aspect.

Full of bronze age slapstick action and frolicking pacing, this enjoyable B+W showcase volume includes work by Sergio Aragones, Len Wein, and Nick Cardy among others.

Of the nine stories here, only those from Jonah Hex issues 2 and 4 are unique to this volume. With 23 Jonah Hex stories and 8 supplementary western tales in the showcase for a dollar less cover price, the consumer is faced with a bit of a conundrum.

Here, Oliver Queen is taken forcefully from his life of unfulfilling excess and thrust into a battle for his life on an abandoned island: Green Arrow’s origin gets a retelling courtesy of writer Andy Diggle and artist Mark “Jock” Simpson.