Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall join the Capes and Tights Podcast for Episode 255 on November 19, 2025. To prepare for the conversation, we have compiled 11 comics by Hart and Ryall you should read.
Jordan Hart is the creator of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated comic series Ripple Effects. Centered on an invulnerable superhero with type 1 diabetes, the story was placed on the American Library Association’s Best Graphic Novels for Adults reading list and was a finalist for the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards. Additionally, he is known for his Image Comics supernatural adventure series The Cabinet with co-creator David Ebeltoft and artist Chiara Raimondi. Recently he has released one-shot comics including Dread the Halls, Dread the Hall H, and more.
Chris Ryall is the co-founder and publisher at Syzygy Publishing, an imprint at Image Comics, that launched in January 2022 with the Eisner-nominated Joe Hill’s Rain. He is also the writer and co-creator of Syzygy titles Zombies vs Robots, Onyx, The Hollows, and Tales of Syzpense, among other titles. Prior to forming Syzygy, Ryall spent nearly two decades developing unique stories from multiple sides of the business.
Prior to founding Syzygy Publishing, Ryall served as IDW Publishing’s Editor-in-Chief, Chief Creative Officer, President, and Publisher over his long tenure with the publisher. He also worked with creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez in the development of Locke & Key, serving as editor on the acclaimed comic series and as an EP on its three-season Netflix series. Additionally, in 2017 joined Robert Kirkman and David Alpert’s Skybound Entertainment as Editor-in Chief and Special Projects in a gap at IDW. Ryall also authored Marvel Age of Comics: Daredevil: Born Again which hit bookstores everywhere on November 11, 2025.
Hart and Ryall co-created Dread the Halls, a horror holiday one-shot. The 2025 edition hits shelves at local comic shops on December 3, 2025 from Syzygy Publishing / Image Comics.
Rom (IDW) // Chris Ryall
The evil Dire Wraiths have escaped to Earth but are hounded by a Knight of the Solstar Order, the one feared more than all others. He is Rom, the Wraith-slayer. Rom, the Spaceknight! Having followed the Dire Wraiths across the galaxy to Earth, Rom finds they have infiltrated all levels of society, hiding in plain sight. Replacing many humans in key leadership positions, the Wraiths’ plan to dominate the planet-and everyone in it-is gaining momentum. But Rom finds resistance from the humans as well, who fear he is just another alien invader. He is joined in the battle by two other Solstar Knights… but are they here as friends or foes?
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The Cabinet (Image) // Jordan Hart
In this vibrant, tongue-in-cheek adventure, atypical teen Avani and Midwestern jock Trent teleport across a post-Cold War landscape to collect bizarre relics. Why? Well, because they need to summon the arcane powers of a resplendent 17th-century cabinet to fix a teeny, tiny mistake the last time Avani used it… unleashing an ancient evil from its prison and accidentally slaughtering her parents.
Zombies vs. Robots (Image) // Chris Ryall
Eisner-losing duo Chris Ryall & Ashley Wood return with this complete collection of their classic Zombies vs. Robots stories. Featuring old adventures, newly created tales of wonder, ZVR newspaper strips, artistic homages, a full cover gallery, and the bonus-and quite bogus-“Complete History of ZVR” essay by Ryall, too. Join us for the first time all over again!
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Doppelganger (Alterna) // Jordan Hart
A timid computer engineer named Dennis Zimmann discovers that he’s actually been duplicated by an ancient and evil Doppelgänger spirit. Combining his intelligence with the creativity of his neighbor Riccardo, Dennis must develop a plan and muster the courage to kill his Doppelgänger before it destroys his life and everyone he holds dear.
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The Colonized: Zombies vs. Aliens (Image) // Chris Ryall
Where there’s aliens, there’s zombies! These otherworldy threats converge in the secluded Carbon Falls Collective. A 2nd-gen off-the-grid’er, Huxley Robertson is dealing with both loss and the elders’ pushback against his plans for a fully sustainable town. Amidst those volatile, circumstances, a vainglorious alien explorer inadvertently re-animates the town’s dead! Add a rogue ATF agent into the mix and let’s just say this is a bad time for the sleepy town to be cut off from the outside world.
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Ripple Effects (Fanbase Press) // Jordan Hart
Ripple Effects is a graphic medicine series which explores life as a superhero with an invisible illness, specifically type 1 diabetes. Every chapter contains an “Unseen Ripples” essay written by an individual with an invisible disability (e.g., diabetes, multiple sclerosis, paranoid schizophrenia, etc.), relating to a specific scene in the series and how it speaks to their own lived experience.
What sets this series apart is a positive, person-first representation about life with a chronic disease . . . which just so happens to also include superhuman abilities. But, Ripple Effects isn’t just a story about a character with an incurable disease. It’s also a thrilling and relevant superhero tale that touches on the difficulty of finding a work/life balance, the class struggles and economic inequality experienced by many in our nation, and the desire to help others during trying times.
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Kiss (IDW) // Chris Ryall
Four ordinary humans in 1920s Chicago find themselves caught up in a battle of epic proportions that will reverberate across time and space in “Dressed to Kill.” In “A World Without Heroes” travel to a forgotten time of swords and sorcery, dragons and wizards, warriors and maidens. A once-united kingdom has become irreversibly divided. Can the Demon, Starchild, Catman, and Celestial save their world?
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Dread the Hall H (Image) // Hart & Ryall
It’s comic convention season! And what better way to celebrate comic cons than this extra-length anthology filled with con-related horror stories! Last year, they skewered all things Christmas on the pages of Dread the Halls, and now writers Chris Ryall and Jordan Hart, alongside artists Nelson Daniel, Piotr Kowalski, Jimmy Kucaj, and Chris Anderson, bring terrifying convention tales to life! Covers by Maria Wolf, a convention-line wraparound by Daniel, and a “con-badge” incentive cover by Hart! The perfect and perfectly terrifying comic to read while waiting to get into that massive convention hall!
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Road Rage (IDW) // Chris Ryall
Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson‘s classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW is proud to present comic-book tellings of both stories in Road Rage. Adapted by Chris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and Rafa Garres.
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Dread the Halls (Image) // Hart & Ryall
The perfect holiday stocking stuffer-a collection of horror tales to read curled up by the light of the Yule log “Be of Good Fear!” Long before Americans celebrated horror on Halloween, the Victorians did it gathered around a fireplace on Christmas Eve. Dread the Halls honors this macabre tradition by wishing you and yours “Happy Holidays” with stories of ghosts, ghastly abominations, and vile creatures. Covers by red-hot artists Maria The Wolf, Marguerite Sauvage, wrapping-paper variant by Jordan Hart, and a holiday homage cover by Lee Ferguson, will allow you to spread the dread this season in horrifically festive style!
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Tales of Syzpense (Image) // Chris Ryall
Tales o Syzpense presents two titanic tales of terror and turmoil! Up first, courtesy of Lore co-creators T.P. Louise and Ashley Wood, the mystery of Les Mort plays out on the surreal and mysterious island of Southport and a run-in with Eris, the goddess of strife… And then, “Power is wasted on the young!” Chris Ryall and Nelson Daniel present Dreamweaver, the story of an aging adventurer with a mystical secret who looks to pass on his abilities to the next generation of hero… until she has much greater success than he did and he decides he wants those abilities back at any cost.
