Fan-favorite comic That Texas Blood is all set up to be your new favorite Neo-noir Western TV series. An adaptation is currently in the works at FX from the showrunner of Sweet Tooth and producer of The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Image Comics‘ bestselling, fan-favorite neo-noir Western, That Texas Blood by writer Chris Condon (Of the Earth, News from the Fallout) and artist Jacob Phillips (Everything Dead & Dying, Newburn) is being developed by FX for a drama series from Jim Mickle (director, showrunner, and writer of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth) and E.L. Katz (co-executive producer and producing director on Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor). Both comic creators Condon and Phillips are also serving as co-executive producers.
That Texas Blood has cultivated some big comparisons to many of the biggest creatives and franchises out there. It’s been likened to the works of Cormac McCarthy and John Carpenter, drawing comparisons to Breaking Bad, Yellowstone, and No Country for Old Men. The series follows Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Ambrose County, Texas, who questions his place in a 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 success of the comic also saw it spawn a prequel series, titled The Enfield Gang Massacre.
The live-action adaptation is still in early days of development. We’ll keep you posted on all the latest updates.
The That Texas Blood comics are returning for a new arc!
The first arc of That Texas Blood concluded in December 2022 with issue #20. The series then went on hiatus, but the team still pumped out a six-issue prequel miniseries titled The Enfield Gang Massacre, which was set roughly 150 years before the events of the main series.
In In That Texas Blood #21, 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. The new arc contains connections to previous stories, but is also cited as a perfect jumping-on point for new readers.
“Well… we’re back! Joe Bob returns, this time for a story set in 2003 that we like to call ‘Hell Comes to Allison Ranch.’ It’s our most action-packed story arc yet with strong thematic links to two of our previous, fan-favorite outings—That Texas Blood volume one and The Enfield Gang Massacre,” Condon announced in a statement. “While this new arc has some connections to our past stories, it’s also a great place for readers unfamiliar with Ambrose County or its inhabitants to jump on, and Jacob and I are excited to bring some new collaborators along with us, too. We are so excited to be adding letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and designer Michael Tivey to the That Texas Blood ranks. With the team we have assembled on this book, and the story we have to tell, I think this may just be the best That Texas Blood story yet.”
The new That Texas Blood arc kicks off on June 3.
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