That Texas Blood #21
(W) Chris Condon (A) Jacob Phillips
Sheriff Joe Bob Coates and Deputy Wilson Hart are called to the Allison Ranch — the largest and richest ranch in the United States — where family grievances are blooming into full-blown war.
In one of the wildest, most action-packed books that Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, we delve deep into the life of one of CRIMINAL’s most complex and tragic characters, Ricky Lawless as he tries to pay off a deep debt to a mobster, while things just keep going from bad to worse.
FIVE GEARS IN REVERSE will have long-time CRIMINAL fans cheering the return of RICKY LAWLESS and new readers will find it a perfect jumping-on-point for the greatest crime comic series of the 21st century.
Story: Ed Brubaker
Art: Sean Phillips
Color: Jacob Phillips
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Another comic series might be coming to television as FX is developing That Texas Blood. The drama series from Jim Mickle and E.L. Katz is based on the comic series from Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips and published by Image Comics.
Mickle and Katz are writing and exec producing the series and Mickle will also direct it.
Other executive producers include Michael Waldron and Adam Fasullo via Anomaly Pictures, Adam Fishbach, Jeremy Platt, Linda Moran, and Condon. Jacob Phillips is serving as co-executive producer.
That Texas Blood is a neo-noir Western following Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Ambrose County, Texas, who questions his place in an increasingly violent world when a man returns home following the sudden disappearance of his brother, causing a spiral down into a past filled with treachery and blood.
The comic series debuted in 2020 and it’s 21st issue will be released in September.
The Hab #2
(W) Joshua Dysart (A) David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jacob Phillips
(C) Bill Crabtree, Matt Hollingsworth (L) Simon Bowland
NOWHERE TO RUN. Trapped inside their would be refuge and cut off from a dying world, Tuttle Barrows and his handpicked survivors struggle to maintain their grip on sanity even as they are gripped by sudden and horrifying hallucinations. Soon, scars from the past are violently gouged open and revelatory memories long buried begin to spill out, clawing their way into The Hab’s macabre new reality. Resident physician Dr. Farooqi struggles to contain the spreading madness as something continues savagely dispatching the remaining crew one-by-one. Now, the only hope for survival lies in unlocking the ancient cave buried deep beneath The Hab to uncover the secret that will keep them alive – or end them forever.
The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #4
(W) Chris Condon (A) Jacob Phillips
The Brooklyn Bridge is as good a place as any for Ezra to take a clandestine meeting with Karl Meyer, the man who could help him bust this case wide open. But mechanical monsters lie in wait, and Ezra’s life is put right on the line. He knows too much now, and the only way to stay alive is to act fast. What he finds at the Clockworkers ‘ Union might mean he’s already too late!
Continuing the hit-filled 2026 lineup for Zack Kaplan and Dark Horse Comics, The Smart Division reunites Kaplan with Eisner-winning superstar artist John Pearson. This is their first series together since their fan favorite Vault Comics series Mindset, which was optioned by Boatrocker Studios and Don Cheadle’s Radicle Act for TV development. Now, Pearson and Kaplan build a world straight out of a modern-day detective’s crime files, as an artificial intelligence app offers to serve our worst instincts and assist us in evading law enforcement. How will our criminal justice system possibly stand up to the power of A.I.? And can two disparate detectives with vastly different relationships with technology come together to track down this mysterious new threat? Eisner-winning letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Eisner-nominated designer Tom Muller joins the duo for this story that’s perfect for fans of The X-Files, True Detective, and Minority Report!
Main cover art for this series by Pearson with variant covers for issue #1 from Jesse Lonergan, Jacob Phillips, and illustrator Matt Taylor.
When a mysterious new predictive artificial intelligence program appears responsible for assisting someone in the perfect murder, a pair of unlikely investigators, a chaotic Gen-Z savant and a veteran FBI agent, must hunt down the killer by starting the FBI’s first AI crimes division.
Get ready for the new age of crime comics when The Smart Division #1 (of 5) arrives in comic shops on August 5, 2026, for $4.99.
The Hab #1 is a screaming success! The debut issue sold out at the distributor level two days after launch!
But fear not! Bad Idea is rushing this petrifying premiere back to print in order to keep up with overwhelming demand!
The series is from writer Joshua Dysart with art by David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Jacob Phillips.
The Hab #1 Second Printing descends into comic shops on May 20th!
The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #3
(W) Chris Condon (A) Jacob Phillips
THE BRUTAL DARK CLOSES IN! Ezra Cain meets face-to-face with the Brutal Dark… but it ain’t on his terms! His snooping around the Clockworkers’ Union has finally put his investigation on the shadowy sect’s radar. But a dash of good fortune comes Ezra’s way when reporter Sandy Williams gets a lead on the Brutal Dark’s agenda. She’s an old flame, though… is working together really in the cards for these two?
In the dying days of the American frontier, survival is earned in blood, and legacy is something far more dangerous. Cloven, the new original series from Mad Cave Studios, pulls readers into a bleak, dust-choked world where inheritance is not a gift, but a reckoning.
Written by comics’ legendary creator Dan Panosian, with art by Italian illustrator David Ferracci, colors by Lee Loughridge, and letters by Pat Brosseau, Cloven brings together a powerhouse creative team, with covers by Panosian, Jacob Phillips, Mark Chiarello, and Travis Charest.
In the dying days of the American frontier, a young woman journeys into the unknown to claim a legacy she never asked for—and may not survive.
June Buckley’s father was a monster in life. In death, he may be something worse.
Summoned alongside a group of treacherous heirs, June is forced to traverse the same brutal path that built her father’s empire. But the trail reveals more than hardship—it exposes the rot in every soul traveling beside her.
And at the center of it all is Hendido…a creature bound to her father’s past, and perhaps to something far older and much more wicked.
As the tension simmers and night closes in, June begins to understand: Her inheritance comes at a grisly price.
Cloven is a slow burn descent into violence, inheritance, and the things we carry whether we want to or not.
Cloven #1 goes on sale July 29, 2026 (FOC July 7).
Mercurial billionaire Tuttle Barrows prepared for everything—even the end of the world. Years ago he wielded his immense power and fortune to build a massive sealed habitat atop a once protected ancient freshwater glacial cave. Now, as the world outside unravels, Barrows, his family, and a handpicked inner circle retreat to their final sanctuary—a place built to outlast civilization itself. But something was already there. Beneath layers of ice, in the ancient freshwater vault, a long-dormant danger lurks. While hallucinations twist their reality and violence spreads like a fever they must descend deeper or risk their last refuge becoming a tomb.
Story: Joshua Dysart
Art: David Lapham, Jacob Phillips, Bill Sienkiewicz
Color: Bill Crabtree, Jacob Phillips, Matt Hollingsworth
Letterer: Simon Bowland
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