Comic book writer Chris Condon joins the Capes and Tights Podcast for Episode 214 on March 12, 2025. To prepare for the conversation, we have compiled seven comics by Condon you should read.
Condon is the writer of the Image Comics series That Texas Blood with artist Jacob Phillips along with its Wild West spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, which was selected as one of the best comics of 2023 by The Hollywood Reporter, The Comics Journal, CBR, and The Comics Beat. Other comics to his name are The Night People (Oni Press), Green Arrow (DC), Ultimate Wolverine (Marvel), and more!
His upcoming comic Far Down Below hits local shops on March 26, 2025 from Mad Cave Studios.
Night People (Oni Press)
A pair of murderous lovers in Florida carrying out a bloody agenda. A perverse political and religious power struggle between a brother and a sister. An easygoing drifter who suddenly finds himself a fugitive on the run. And a bright-eyed young girl discovering her place in the cold dark world. At the end of the twentieth century, chaos and horror were the American dream.
That Texas Blood (Image)
After an explosive confrontation over a casserole dish, Joe Bob Coates begins to question his effectiveness as Sheriff of Ambrose County, Texas. Matters only get worse as Los Angeles-based writer Randy Terrill returns home following the sudden and mysterious death of his brother, causing a spiral down into a past filled with treachery and blood.
The Enfield Gang Massacre (Image)
A Western that is as haunting as it is thrilling, The Enfield Gang Massacre tells the dark origin of That Texas Blood‘s Ambrose County as only Jacob Phillips and Chris Condon can!
Montgomery Enfield and his gang of outlaws find themselves in the crosshairs of an aging Texas Ranger and a newborn county that’s hungry for law – by any means necessary.
Ultimate Wolverine (Marvel)
To maintain control of their corner of the Maker’s world, three members of his council — Magik, Colossus and Omega Red — deploy their most lethal asset: The Winter Soldier! But who is the weapon behind the mask…with the claws? This Ultimate Wolverine will be put to the test by seeing how well he handles the Opposition — a group fighting for mutant liberation. But when the Winter Soldier leads a strike against two members of the Opposition — Kitty Pryde and Gambit — will they recognize their deadly enemy?
Green Arrow (DC)
Oliver Queen faces the aftermath of his actions in Absolute Power, having done the unthinkable to protect his loved ones, and the ramifications of his involvement may have gone too far for his family and friends to forgive. Codon began his run with issue 17.
Far Down Below (Mad Cave)
In the summer of 1983, teen friends Mike and Brian seek escape from rainy day boredom by exploring Brian’s abandoned family home, a notoriously haunted house. What they find below their sleepy Eastern Pennsylvania suburb will unlock the doors to adventure — and danger.
Coming March 26, 2025 from Mad Cave Studios!
The Goddamn Tragedy (Oni Press)
Ellen Janson is here to set the record straight about the highly publicized, oft-sensationalized journey her family undertook in 1846. Ellen sets out with her mother, Irena, and her father, Leo, on the treacherous road west in search of a better life. But when her father chooses to split off from the party, taking an untested shortcut through the mountains, can their small family survive the elements, the wildlife—and each other? Or will their journey become nothing more than another goddamn tragedy?
Coming May 28, 2025 from Oni Press.
