This week, our books imprint, Absurd Ventures Press published The Tower of Beggars – book one in the bestselling Stormfell Academy series by German fantasy author Torsten Weitze, now available for the first time in English.

Read the full IGN review: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-tower-of-beggars-stormfell-academy-book-one-review

Read the full Parade review: https://parade.com/books/9-books-that-will-keep-you-up-all-night-this-week-including-an-epic-phantom-of-the-opera-retelling

Read the full Honey Pop review: https://thehoneypop.com/2026/09/09/the-tower-of-beggars-torsten-weitze/

The Tower of Beggars is available now from your favorite bookseller.

You can now preorder:
⭐ Issue 10 of American Caper is coming August 19th to your local comic shop, or preorder now at the Absurd Ventures Store.
⭐ The next volume of the trade paperback collection. American Caper Volume 2: Cowboys and Conspiracies, featuring issues 5-8, coming October 27.

And just added to the Store is the Absurd Tote in heavy black canvas with reinforced shoulder straps.

https://store.absurdventures.com 

Thank you to everyone who sent a question our way, whether via our website or any of our social channels. We received so many great questions about A Better Paradise, American Caper, the Absurdaverse, and all of our various projects here at Absurd Ventures – far too many to answer in one go – so consider this inaugural edition to be part one of an ongoing series. Look for part two to be published sometime in the next month or two and, in the meantime, please do keep your comments coming so that we may consider them for an upcoming edition of Ask Absurd Questions…

“We love creating universes that people get lost in, and they can't find the bottom of it."

Thank you to Tribeca Fest for hosting Absurd at the Storytelling Summit this past weekend with our partners from Smilegate, Dark Horse Comics, and Kevin Anderson & Associates for a talk about narrative and worldbuilding across the A Better Paradise, American Caper, and Absurdaverse worlds and projects, moderated by Elle Osili-Wood.

Read more at IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/rockstar-co-founder-dan-houser-says-theres-no-right-way-to-play-an-open-world-game-tribeca-festival-2026

Now at the Absurd Ventures Store:

• The Absurd 3G0 Robot Tee.
  https://store.absurdventures.com/products/absurd-3g0-robot-t-shirt
• You can now preorder American Caper Issue #8
  Shipping June 24
  https://store.absurdventures.com/products/american-caper-issue-8 
  Also available, while supplies last, as part of a Back Issue Bundle including issues 3-8 at a 20% discount.

Dan Houser and Lazlow will discuss Absurd’s approach to storytelling and worldbuilding at this year’s Tribeca Fest alongside several of our partners from Dark Horse Comics, Smilegate and more. The discussion, titled “LUMINARIES: DAN HOUSER’S ABSURD VENTURES” is part of Tribeca Fest’s Storytelling Summit and will take place Saturday, June 13, 3:30pm at Spring Studios in New York City.

The panel will feature Absurd’s Dan Houser and Lazlow alongside Tim Wiesch (Head of Publishing, Dark Horse Comics) discussing American Caper, Kevin Anderson (CEO of Kevin Anderson & Associates) discussing A Better Paradise novels, and Paul Lee (Vice President of GTM, Smilegate) discussing Smilegate’s video game publishing partnership with Absurd.

Visit Tribeca’s website for more information on available passes.

Now available to preorder at the Absurd Ventures Store:

• American Caper issue #6: A ballad of predators, prey, and performance enhancing drugs. Shipping April 22.
• American Caper: Red-Pilled Blues (Trade Paperback collection Volume 1). Collects issues 1-4. Shipping June 23. 
• A limited supply Back Issue Bundle of issues 3-6 at a 20% discount. Ships April 22 with issue 6 release.

Check out the newly launched Original Art section of the Absurd Ventures Store. Your opportunity to own an actual 1-of-1 finished and inked page of original art straight from the drawing desk of American Caper artist, Chris Anderson. Two pages are currently available and more will be added in the future. 100% of proceeds go directly to artist Chris Anderson.

And also available at the Absurd Store now: The Absurd Mug Collection
The black 15oz glossy ceramic Absurd Mug; 4 styles to choose from, or collect them all. Each with the Absurd logo on one side and a signature strapline on the other. 20% off all orders of 2 mugs or more.

https://store.absurdventures.com/

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Thank you all for your amazing support in 2025. As we head into 2026, and following the recent releases of the first A Better Paradise novel and the first issues of the American Caper comic book series, we’ve received and seen quite a few good questions from fans and followers about those stories and our other upcoming projects. We will be publishing our very first ASK ABSURD QUESTIONS article here on the Absurd Feed soon addressing questions about A Better Paradise, American Caper, the Absurdaverse and more. If you have questions for us to consider, please do keep them coming via https://absurdventures.com/contact and stay tuned.

The almost infinitely intelligent, but profoundly unwise superintelligence at the heart of A BETTER PARADISE Volume One.

From Dan’s in-depth nearly 3 hour conversation with Lex Fridman, watch the entire episode now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gbXDjNWyI