Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘That Texas Blood’ saddles up again in a new miniseries

New comics and graphic novels arrive this week by Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips, Christopher Cantwell, Dennis Menheere, Raina Telgemeier, Gale Galligan, Jim Zub, Jesus Merino and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week.

I’ve pulled out some of the highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So check with your retailer to see what’s arriving at their shop this week.

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Chris Condon + Jacob Phillips return to ‘That Texas Blood’ with a new arc this September

‘Hell Comes to Allison Ranch’ drops Sheriff Joe Bob Coates smack dab in the middle of a range war on the largest ranch in America.

Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips are heading back to the ranch for more That Texas Blood. What was supposed to be issue #21 is now the first issue of a new six-issue miniseries, That Texas Blood: Hell Comes to Allison Ranch, which will launch in September from Image Comics.

Starting in 2020, Condon and Phillips teamed together on 20 issues of That Texas Blood, with issue #20 coming out in 2022. Image had originally solicited the Allison Ranch storyline as issue #21, which would have come out earlier this month — but sometimes plans can change as fast as the Texas weather.

The new arc finds Sheriff Joe Bob Coates and Deputy Wilson Hart called to the Allison Ranch, the largest and richest ranch in the United States, where a family dispute has escalated into a war the even the Duttons would find extreme. Set in 2003, Condon says the story has thematic ties to both the original first volume and The Enfield Gang Massacre, the spinoff miniseries that followed the original series.

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