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DC Comics is returning to the Wild West.

Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death is a new six-issue series by writer/artist Michael Walsh, announced as part of DC's Next Level panel at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2026. Walsh, who is best known for his creator-owned series Exquisite Corpses and The Silver Coin, is taking a break to do a rare work-for-hire project with this series due to, he says, a long-held desire to do a horror-western.

”We’re gonna take Jonah Hex and introduce him to a whole new mythology, and it’s going to be a very horror-leaning book with a lot of sensibilities of what we love about Westerns… isolation," says Walsh.

The writer/artist relates to fans in the panel how he grew up with an Irish grandmother, who warned him, "don't go into the woods; the fairies will take you," and that in this series he is bringing in a lot of Irish folklore "because there were a lot of Irish in the Wild West."

Walsh also admits he just loves drawing "a craggy old man" and this series gives him that chance.

Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 (of 6) is scheduled to go on sale on October 7.

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