(Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo #2, 3) - The outlaw Price Boys had recently been gunned down, with locals of Mud Creek selling pictures of them and a peek at their corpses. Doc and company snuck into the barn where the bodies were being kept in the dead of night to steal them, and Doc animated one of the Prices. Bounty hunter Slow Go Smith was sleeping in the barn, and when he woke up he got in a gunfight with the reanimated Price. Doc sicced Wild Bill on him, and the undead gunslinger fatally shot him. Slow Go’s friend Jonah Hex went to the stables to see what the commotion was, and Hickok shot him, with the bullet razing Hex’s skull. Doc and company rode off, and Hex sat with Slow Go as he died, promising to find who killed him and put a bullet between their eyes. The sheriff and townsfolk of Mud Creek responded to the gunfire, and not believing Hex’s story that circus freaks had killed his friend, he was hauled off to jail and sentenced to be hung. Hex escaped jail, and rode off to find Doc. Hex caught up with Doc in Nacogdoches, where he was putting on his medicine and magic show for the townsfolk, extolling the benefits of his cure-all “Sweet Brown” Tonic. Doc touted his entourage as regular drinkers of the tonic, and had Ramona perform acrobatics before String Bean lifted her over his head while Half-Pint juggled. Hex followed them as they wrapped up their show and went to the outskirts of town. Doc opened up his pickling barrel, pulling out Wild Bill Hickok’s corpse, and bringing him back to a semblance of life with one of his potions. Hex knew he had an opportunity to gun everyone down, but his curiosity got the better of him because he was mystified by what he saw. Doc went to sleep in his wagon while Hickok stood guard. Hex snuck past Wild Bill and woke Doc up, waving a gun in his face. Doc said he was startled because he thought Hex was the Devil who was supposed to come for him at some point. Hex refused to believe Doc when he said he’d resurrected Wild Bill, and while they were jawing Hickok got the jump on Hex, and Doc cracked him over the head with a bottle. Doc told Wild Bill he’d have a new friend for him soon and stuffed Hex in a pickling barrel.

(Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo #4, 5) - Doc forced Hex to drink his zombie potion, which he’d learned to make in Haiti. He told Hex that the potion would burn his brain, and within days he’d be Doc’s mindless followers, just like the rest of his entourage. Doc went on to explain that at first he’d need to help Hex eat, use the bathroom, and remind him to sleep, but after a few more doses of the potion Hex wouldn’t have any of those needs anymore. Hex was playing possum, and forced himself to vomit up as much of the potion as he could. Doc kept him in the barrel as he rode to another town, and regaled him with the story of how he’d raised up Wild Bill Hickok after he’d been shot by Jack McCall. When Doc stopped the wagon, and took his entourage to set up camp Hex made his move, kicking his way out of the barrel. Hex ended up tumbling into a river and swept up in the current, but was brought ashore by good samaritan Jeff McGuire and his son Billy. They took Hex in for a few days, and Jeff gave him pistols and a horse when he was ready to light out. Hex tracked Doc from Texas into New Mexico, when he spotted a band of Chiricahua Apache torturing a soldier. Hex shot the soldier to put him out of his misery, which started a firefight between him and the Apache. Hex nearly avoided getting shot, and fell down a hillside, running smack into Doc, his crew, and a division of soldiers.. The cavalry sergeant told Hex they were escorting Doc and his side show through Apache territory when they were ambushed and pinned down by Apache gunfire. The cavalry had already lost a number of men, but Wild Bill’s sharpshooting had kept them all from getting slaughtered. Night fell, and the Chiricahua fell back, but still had them surrounded. Hex knew the Chiricahua would most likely attack again in the dead of night, and the sergeant put Hex on first watch. Doc was incredulous that Hex was still alive, and Jonah told him that if the Apaches didn’t kill them he would. As Hex predicted the Chiricahua attacked at night, and Doc was in his wagon, riding full speed and telling his entourage to protect him at all costs. Doc’s zombies took incredible damage, but they did manage to ride off into the night. The cavalry was slaughtered by the Chiricahua, with only Hex and the sergeant surviving. They fled into the desert with the Chiricahua on their trail until the early morning, when the sergeant, dying of his wounds, shot himself in the head rather than have Hex be slowed down by him. Hex finally caught up to Doc. Ramona, String Bean and Half-Pint had taken too many bullets, and were now good and truly dead. Doc was currently roasting Ramona and devouring her corpse. Doc commanded Wild Bill to kill Hex, and Hex managed to shoot out Bill’s eyes and scored a direct headshot. Wild Bill shot blindly, and kept shooting until the last of his brains fell from his skull. Hex told Doc he wasn’t going to kill him, instead he shot both Doc’s kneecaps and left him for the approaching Apache, who Hex knew would spend days torturing Doc to death. With his friend avenged Hex went into town for a drink.

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