The Crime Keeps Getting Worse for Sheriff Coates in, THAT TEXAS BLOOD
February 23, 2020A new neo-Western crime series is bound for Image Comics, from creators Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips called, That Texas Blood.
The series will follow 70-year-old Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Fort Lehane, Texas, of Ambrose County, where the crime doesn’t stop and the process doesn’t get any easier.
“I’ve always had a fondness for the West. When you’re a kid it’s the Old West—cowboys and six-shooters, the lawless frontier of Deadwood and Tombstone. As you grow older you learn the truth about the place—you see it as it is today. The character, the grit, the creeping darkness of that vast landscape,” said Condon. “You learn it through Portis, Thompson, the Coens, through books, television or the news. Texas is America’s mystical land, where laws don’t necessarily apply, where right isn’t always right and a gun can be on every hip and every itchy finger ready to pull the trigger. I wrote a story about this place, moreso, the feeling it evoked. The character that grew from that wasn’t a sinister villain, but a good man with a complicated relationship with his place in the world. What came were dreams of Texas. Dreams of a sheriff trying to make right in a wrong world. What came was Joe Bob. He’s almost like a friend now. I hope you’ll feel the same.”
That Texas Blood #1 goes on sale on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
Click HERE to check out the official press release from Image Comics.
