The Goddamn Tragedy Is a Horror Western to Watch in 2025

Update: With The Goddamn Tragedy releasing connected May 28, IGN tin debut an exclusive preview of this intriguing fearfulness Western. Get a person look astatine Shawn Kuruneru's gorgeous, surreal creation benignant successful the slideshow assemblage below:

The Goddamn Tragedy is simply a 48-page graphic novella by Kuruneru and writer Chris Condon. The publication is published by Oni Press.

"I emotion the Western environment,” Kuruneru said successful a statement. “I’m drawn to the simplicity of the genre. I similar starting with thing simple, and past making it analyzable done quality improvement and atmosphere. There’s much successful the Western genre that I privation to explore.”

The archetypal communicative is below:

Chris Condon is 1 of the breakout stars of the comic publication manufacture lately, acknowledgment to books similar That Texas Blood and the upcoming Ultimate Wolverine. IGN tin exclusively uncover Condon's adjacent project, a grisly fearfulness Western called The Goddamn Tragedy.

The Goddamn Tragedy pairs Condon with creator Shawn Kuruneru (Burn Man 2) for a communicative inspired by tales of the Donner Party and different ill-fated expeditions done the American West successful the 19th Century. Check retired the screen to this one-shot peculiar below:

Art by Shawn Kuruneru. (Image Credit: Oni Press)

Here's the authoritative statement from steadfast Oni Press:

Ellen Janson is present to acceptable the grounds consecutive astir the highly publicized, oft-sensationalized travel her household undertook successful 1846.

Ellen sets retired with her mother, Irena, and her father, Leo, connected the treacherous roadworthy westbound successful hunt of a amended life. But erstwhile her begetter chooses to divided disconnected from the party, taking an untested shortcut done the mountains, tin their tiny household past the elements, the wildlife—and each other? Or volition their travel go thing much than different goddamn tragedy?

“I had been speechmaking astir the tragic Donner Party of 1846 and an thought struck me: there's a communicative present to tell, 1 that could seizure the intelligence tumult a household endures arsenic they are faced with an intolerable decision: kill...or beryllium killed,” said Condon successful Oni's property release. “We each cognize however the Donner Party played out, but we don't cognize however things enactment retired for the Janson household and that's a communicative that the masterful Shawn Kuruneru and I are each excessively excited to tell. Thankfully, we've recovered a large location for this one-shot of survivalist panic astatine Oni Press who excels astatine telling gut-wrenching tales from beyond the pale."

"The Goddamn Tragedy is simply a gritty thriller with an ambiance akin to The Shining,” said Kuruneru. “For the past 2 years I’ve been drafting Westerns, starting with my ain comics Cave Grave and Poor Moon, past Fishflies #6 for Jeff Lemire. As a instrumentality of Chris’s penning connected That Texas Blood, I americium excited to bring this communicative to beingness with ominous colour washes, unsmooth line-work, and eerie shadows to dilatory uncover the impending doom of the Janson family."

The Goddamn Tragedy volition beryllium released successful May 2025.

This caller contented is conscionable 1 portion of Oni's ambitious publishing plans for 2025. Previously, IGN got an exclusive archetypal look astatine 4 caller graphic novels launching adjacent year, arsenic good arsenic an exclusive look astatine Free for All, the caller enactment from Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees creator Patrick Horvath.

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