The worst advice I’ve ever gotten was my first girlfriend said there’s no money in comic books and that pursuing my dream is a stupid thing to do. Don’t get me started on Hollywood saying that the Western is dead. Every time I pitch, I get the reply that the Western is dead, but if it’s a good story, people will care. [Warner Brothers, in fact, is working on a Jonah Hex film. The early script, Palmiotti says, is remarkably true to the comic.] The best advice my mother ever gave me: Fir


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