Welcome to another edition of The Pull List Comic Reviews! This week Jonah Hex takes top billing, a couple more Blackest Night mini-series debuts and a slew of over-sized annuals and one-shots invade your pull list. As always, WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.

PULL OF THE WEEK:

Jonah Hex #50
DC Comics – $3.99 US
Writers: Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti
Artist: Darwyn Cooke
Score: 9.5

The landmark 50th issue of Jonah Hex hits the stands, featuring a done-in-one tale of the scarred bounty hunter’s latest task: to locate and dispose of 50 various bad guys. The cost of victory, however, may prove to be too much to bear…

Jonah Hex is no stranger to violence. We’ve been exposed to his brand of “justice” for decades now, so it’s very easy to forget that, under all of that hatred, this killing machine does have a heart. Thankfully, writing team Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti weave a story that is sure to please the loyal Hex fans with plenty of merciless vengeance, while injecting a tragedy that goes to great lengths to humanize the central character.

Darwyn Cooke handles the art chores on this commemorative issue, further cementing how incredible a read this was. Gorgeous pencils accompany the artist’s usual cinematic flair, with numerous examples of how to kill a man mixed in with a few touching moments, and a final page that speaks volumes without the aid of dialogue. With the holidays around the corner, I’d gladly accept this final page in all of its original glory as a nifty Christmas gift.

Back in February, during a panel with legendary artist Neil Adams, he explained that the future of comics is in animation. Nobody really understood what that meant, but now with Marvel and DC releasing animated film after animated film, we are now starting to get the picture.

Shortly after Marvel announced their first two projects in the world of Anime, the first trailer for another adapted storyline has hit the web. In this story, originally written by Zak Penn, Hulk is exiled to an alien planet, where he is taken as prisoner and forced to fight in a series of gladiator-style games. The jade giant eventually becomes ruler of this world, and goes to war with Earth, which is where World War Hulk the comic picks up, but there is no word on what impact that story will have on this film.

Check out the very first trailer for the animated Planet Hulk film below, which hits DVD shelves February of 2010.