Trivia / Jonah Hex (2005)

• Creator Backlash: Gray and Palmiotti have this towards "The Six Gun War" arc. Being very open it was an attempt to satisfy a mandate from DC editorial.
• Executive Meddling: "The Six Gun War" storyline was a mandate of DC Editorial on Gray and Palmiotti as an attempt to boost the sales of the series, believing a continuous arc rather than the done-in-one issues would attract more readers.
• Milestone Celebration: The series reaching 50 issues saw a Jonah Hex title get its first variant cover. Both the variant and the main cover were done by Darwyn Cooke, who also did interior art for the issue.
• Network to the Rescue: Despite having sales well below the cancellation mark for most of its run, the series continued right until the New 52 line-wide reboot in 2011. This was on account of Palmiotti and Gray's good relationship with Dan Didio ^note  DC's editor-in-chief and Didio believing having a Western book on the shelves helped diversify DC's output. Hex was also a personal favorite character of Didio.
• Promoted Fanboy: Fanboys in this instance. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti were both fans of Jonah Hex comics as kids and described the opportunity to be able to write a modern Jonah Hex comic as a dream come true for them.
• What Could Have Been: The original story of "A Crude Offer" was to make Hex an ancestor of Havey Dent/Two-Face but the Batman editorial office shot the idea down and so the story got reworked, with references to the Dent family removed.