IN THESE WOODS, FEAR EVERYTHING – EVEN EACH OTHER.  Oni Press has unveiled The Goddamn Tragedy #1 – a vicious and vengeful account of one of the Old West’s darkest episodes from those that lived to tell it from breakout writer Chris Condon and artist Shawn Kuruneru. A tense and entirely self-contained 48-page, one-shot graphic novella coming to comic shops everywhere in May 2025, The Goddamn Tragedy #1 returns the writer of That Texas Blood to his Western roots as realized through the lavishly destructive painted artwork of fast-rising star Shawn Kuruneru.

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?

The Goddamn Tragedy #1 is the next in a series of five all-new, genre-defying projects from acclaimed creators for Spring 2025