Jonah Hex Writer Wants An HBO Series For The DC Comics Character
With HBO Max being the de facto landing spot for quite a few DC Comics-based franchises, it makes some sense that there's a bit of campaigning going on for the network to expand its portfolio. In particular, one of the co-writers of the current run of the Jonah Hex comics would like to see HBO Max create a television series based on the character.
For those not familiar with the character, Jonah Hex is a cowboy in the Old West who became disfigured after he won a fight against a Native American rival. It was determined that he won by "cheating" and as punishment, he was scarred with a heated tomahawk. Eventually being able to overcome his injuries, he became a bounty hunter in the mid-1800s but was often transported into "modern-day" in order to fight alongside some of DC Comics' biggest heroes.
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Comic book writer and artist Jimmy Palmiotti believes that the story of Jonah Hex is one that would do well on HBO Max and expressed that belief on Twitter recently. Palmiotti, who is the co-writer of the New 52 revival of Jonah Hex's character, wrote that he didn't understand why HBO Max didn't make a weekly series out of the books that he, Justin Gray, Russ Heath, and Jordi Bernet worked on. Palmiotti even had an idea for how HBO Max could transfer the DC anti-hero over to television. He suggested that the weekly series could just pick up with Jonah Hex after the civil war and when he was just a bounty hunter with a bad scar. The writer also touched on that scar, saying the network could make it smaller, likely in order to make it more palatable.
The DC Comics writer seems to know that at least some of Jonah Hex's backstory could be problematic,
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