- ODY-C (Image)
- Black Bolt (Marvel)
- Invisible Kingdom (Dark Horse)
- Blood Stained Teeth (Image)
- Two-Face (DC)
- Event Horizon: Dark Descent (IDW)
- Tommy Gun Wizards (Dark Horse)
- Spectregraph (DSTLRY)
- The Patron (Ignition Press)
- Aquaman: Andromeda (DC)
- Batman: City of Madness (DC)
- Olympus (Image)
- The Forever Home (Oni Press)
Comic creator Christian Ward joins the Capes and Tights Podcast for Episode 297 on September 2, 2026. To prepare for the conversation, we have compiled 13 comics by Ward you should read.
This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creator Christian Ward to the program to discuss The Forever Home, The Patron, and more!
After 10 years of encouraging London teenagers to draw anything other than comics, Christian Ward is now a multi-Eisner winning comic book artist and writer. He is best known for his cosmic space operas ODY-C co-created with Matt Fraction and the Einser winning Invisible Kingdom co-created with G Willow Wilson. He was also the artist on the Acclaimed Marvel comics series Black Bolt (with Saladin Ahmed), as well contributing to both Thor (with Jason Arron) and Batman (with James Tynion IV). In 2019 he released his first book as a writer, Machine Gun Wizards co-created with Sami Kivelä and in 2022 released Blood Stained Teeth co-created with Patric Reynolds.
Over the past few years, Ward has illustrated Spectregraph for DSTLRY and written such comics as Batman: City of Madness (artist as well) and Two-Face for DC Comics, Event Horizon: Dark Descent, Event Horizon: Inferno, and Event Horizon: Pandemonium for IDW Publishing, as well The Patron for Ignition Press and the upcoming The Forever Home for Oni Press.
ODY-C (Image)
ODY-C, modeled after Homer’s Odyssey, is a psychedelic, gender-broke science-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queens returning home after a centuries-long battle. Told in verse with a visual sensibility that redefines the very possibilities of the comics medium.
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Black Bolt (Marvel)
Black Bolt has been jailed! But where? Why? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Inhuman monarch? The answers will shock you — and Blackagar Boltagon as well! For if he is to learn the truth, he must first win a fight to the death against a fellow inmate: the Absorbing Man! As a prison revolt begins, Death’s Head enters the fray — but is he there to help or to hunt? And who — or what — is the warden of this strange place? Whatever it is, the Jailer knows only penance and fear. And soon, so will the Silent King! If he can gain his freedom, it will be with a heavy heart — and a new companion. But the journey home is long and full of dangers, and what awaits Black Bolt at his destination is judgment! Will he survive the wrath of his own people?
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Invisible Kingdom (Dark Horse)
In a distant galaxy, acolyte Vess and hardened freighter pilot Grix join forces to expose an inconceivable conspiracy between the most dominant religion and an all-powerful mega-corporation. Suddenly prey in an interstellar chase through the dreaded Junk Rings to the Point of No Return, this unexpected pair is faced with a grave decision: reveal the truth or plunge the world into anarchy.
And when the valiant crew of the Sundog is captured by the dangerous Siblings of Rebirth, Vess and Grix must fight to save not only the universe, but also their newfound love — against all odds.
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Blood Stained Teeth (Image)
Meet Atticus Sloane: misanthropic criminal, avid vinyl collector, and member of the aristocratic Vampire cabal the First Borns. For the right price, he’ll turn you into a Vampire, too. After all — immortality isn’t cheap.
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Two-Face (DC)
There are two sides to every story! Two-Face and Harvey Dent have long since struggled to find a balance between their control of the body they share, and now the consequences of that struggle could turn deadly! Writer Christian Ward dives deep into the bifurcated psyche of one of Gotham City’s most tortured villains, as part of DC’s All In storytelling initiative!
Harvey Dent has long been known as Two-Face, but the truth of his existence is more complicated than a simple name change. His fractured psyche maintains two distinct identities, often working against one another as they vie for control of their shared existence. Now, things are messier than ever as Harvey has taken up a position within Gotham’s underworld as a sort of defense lawyer, working within the criminal underground to help litigate disputes and issues between the worst of the worst.
But what happens when he finds himself going up against Two-Face in court?
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Event Horizon: Dark Descent (IDW)
This original comic series serves as an official prequel to the film! The Event Horizon was a revolutionary spaceship designed for one mission: faster-than-light travel with a top-secret, experimental gravity drive. But upon activating the device, the ship journeyed across the borders of Hell itself. In a nightmarish realm of torments beyond imagining, Captain Kilpack and the crew of the Event Horizon must resist all manner of demonic forces—including Paimon, the eyeless King of Hell, and their own descents into madness and bloodlust—if they’ve any chance of escaping back to their own world.
Also check out Event Horizon: Inferno and the upcoming Event Horizon: Pandemonium.
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Tommy Gun Wizards (Dark Horse)
Eliot Ness and his team of Untouchables work overtime taking on dangerous criminals that hide in the seedy underbelly of 1930s Chicago. Except in this world, Al Capone isn’t dealing in alcohol, but in magic. With Lick, a drug that grants magical powers to anyone who ingests it, mobsters become wizards, ordinary men become monsters, and darker secrets than Ness can imagine lie at the heart of it all.
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Spectregraph (DSTLRY)
For years, the mansion has sat strangely nestled into the coastline just a short drive north of Los Angeles. Rumors have haunted the place for years. Its owner a titan of American industry, with a strange fascination in the occult and the paranormal. For decades, the richest men and women in the country have whispered to each other, trying to understand what he was building alone in that mansion for all those years. And now finally, with his death and his estate finally open for sale… they are eager to find out for themselves.
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The Patron (Ignition Press)
All the great artists have one thing in common… they’re dead.
A true patron of the fine arts, Mr. Cherish has dedicated his life to scouting and supporting emerging artists, launching countless unknowns from obscurity into industry superstardom. Unfortunately for these young artists, the secret to Cherish’s success is their untimely demise. Nothing makes a work of art more desirable and valuable to collectors than the passing of its creator, and Cherish has refined his ability to orchestrate spectacular tragedies without leaving a trace… before selling his dead protégés’ oeuvres for massive profits. Painter Matty Barnes is primed to become Cherish’s next “hit” — but when the script is flipped on this latest murder, a posthumous twist calls the artist’s fate and legacy into question putting the patron’s empire in the dueling crosshairs of law enforcement and a merciless third-party connoisseur.
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Aquaman: Andromeda (DC)
Deep in the Pacific Ocean sits Point Nemo: the spaceship graveyard. Nations of the world have long sent their crafts there on splashdown, to sink beneath the seas. But there is something…else at Point Nemo. A structure never made by human hands. And that structure seems to be…waking up. The crew of the submarine Andromeda have been chosen to investigate, but the mystery at the bottom of the sea has also attracted Black Manta. And anything that attracts Black Manta attracts his lifelong foe, the Aquaman! But heaven help them all when the doors of the mystery at Point Nemo swing wide to admit them in…
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Batman: City of Madness (DC)
Buried deep beneath Gotham City there exists another Gotham. This Gotham Below is a living nightmare, populated by twisted mirrors of our Gotham’s denizens, fueled by the fear and hatred flowing down from above. For decades, the doorway between the cities has been sealed and heavily guarded by the Court of Owls. But now the door swings wide, and the twisted version of the Dark Knight has escaped… to trap and train a Robin of his own.
Batman must form an uneasy alliance with the Court and its deadly allies to stop him — and to hold back the wave of twisted supervillains, nightmarish versions of his own nemeses, each one worse than the last, that’s spilling into his streets!
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Olympus (Image)
Three thousand years ago, the brothers Castor and Pollux were granted immortality by Zeus. Today they serve him on Earth. Sent to capture a messenger fallen from Olympus, the brothers accidentally release onto Earth one of the fiercest prisoners of Hades,a cursed, ravaged soul with a millennia-old grudge. Now in an adventure that takes them across Europe and to an island off the coast of Greece, Castor and Pollux must track and capture this being before his rampant rage yields irreversable damage to the balance between Olympus and Earth.
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The Forever Home (Oni Press)
Famed scientist Henry D’mour tried to save the world. He failed. But, in a desperate bid to save himself, his wife, and their two children, he constructed The Forever Home — an ark of luxury and ultramodern convenience insulated from the agony of the planet’s death throes outside its walls… and even time itself. Inside The Forever Home, only 20 minutes pass for every year on the outside… allowing the D’mour family to slowly enact their plans for a new world as their automated environment and robotic companions keep them safe. Safe on the inside. Always inside. Until a childish misstep accidentally breaks The Forever Home’s barrier… and what’s outside decides it wants back in…
