Pre-orders are now live for the AMERICAN CAPER: RED-PILLED BLUES trade paperback which collects the first four issues of creator-writer Dan Houser’s bestselling new crime fiction comic book
MILWAUKIE, Ore. (December 11, 2025) – Dark Horse Comics and Absurd Ventures today announced that the first collected edition volume of creator-writer Dan Houser’s acclaimed new crime fiction comic book series,American Caper, will be released on June 23, 2026. Titled American Caper: Red-Pilled Blues, this trade paperback collects the first four issues of the series and preorders are now live via retailers worldwide including Penguin Random House, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or your local comic shop or bookstore.
Created and written by Rockstar Games co-founder and longtime creative force behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, Dan Houser, the series features a murderer’s row of fellow crime fiction talent including Houser’s longtime writing collaborator, Lazlow, and artwork by Eisner Award–winner David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Chris Anderson (Lost Angels), and Lee Loughridge (Nemesis: Rogue’s Gallery), with covers by Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk into a Bank).).
American Caper Issue #1 was released on November 12 and has received widespread praise from notable authors and creatorsacross the entertainment and comics industries who have lauded its sharp writing, dark humor, and fearless social satire, as well as from comic book fans at large
Issue #1 was also the bestselling crime-fiction comic book in America per November ICv2 sales data.
Set in Verona, Wyoming, American Caper follows two neighboring families on the brink of collapse:
“A Mormon hitman. A gambling-addict lawyer. Two neighbors intertwined in a real estate deal gone wrong. Mix in a Mexican beauty queen on the run from her past, a red-pilled housewife, two escaped convicts in love, a Wall Street billionaire who has become a cowboy, and a maniac hell-bent on revenge. The manicured wilderness of Verona, Wyoming is the perfect cocktail of American culture: real estate development, violence and snake oil.
From the tax-avoiders in the Rockies, to the thought police of Brooklyn, to the confused political and environmental battlegrounds of Florida, one thing is certain: This tragedy is someone else’s fault.”
To be among the first to secure a pre-order of the inaugural trade paperback collected volume, please visit Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or place an order via your local comic book shop or bookstore. Copies will be available in-store starting June 23, 2026.
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