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.

IGN: “GREAT… If you're looking for a good new fantasy series to dig into, I highly recommend checking it out… an entirely unique story filled with tales of gods and inequality… Thanks to a very likeable protagonist and a gold-hungry pocket dragon, the story is hard to put down once you get started. Fans of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and Harry Potter are likely to enjoy everything the first book in the Stormfell Academy series has to offer."

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

Parade: “WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT... If you love the likes of The Hunger Games and Red Rising, you'll want to dive into this release.”

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

Honey Pop: “We couldn’t put The Tower of Beggars down… an entertaining, easy-to-sink-into fantasy adventure with a strong underdog at its center.”

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.

The humidity is rising in Verona in a tale of vengeful cartels, gold plated turds, and Waymos on fire. AMERICAN CAPER issue 10 is out now.

Pick up the latest issue of American Caper at your local comic shop and put the series on your pull list so you don’t miss the upcoming season finale issues.
Limited copies can be purchased at the Absurd Ventures Store.
Digital edition available via GlobalComix, Amazon Kindle, and Apple Books.

Win an autographed copy of the AMERICAN CAPER Volume 1 trade paperback.

Signed at SDCC by Dan Houser, Lazlow, Tyler Boss, Lee Loughridge, Chris Anderson and Shelly Bond

Enter with three chances to win – via the Absurd Ventures website, or via Absurd Ventures on Instagram or X. Terms and conditions apply, see official rules at points of entry.

Dan Houser and Lazlow discuss the upcoming double sized season finale of American Caper and what’s next for the series – from IGN’s San Diego Comic-Con 2026 broadcast.

See more at IGN.com.

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 

Here is the full updated American Caper 2026 roadmap now including dates and covers for all issues of this debut season through the double-size season finale coming in November.

Visit the American Caper website to see all upcoming main series covers by Tyler Boss and variants of the finale issues by Marguerite Sauvage, Becky Cloonan, and Caroline Cash. Put American Caper on your pull list at your local comic shop to ensure you get your copy of all these issues and variants.

The third and final volume of the trade paperback collection entitled “There Madness Lies” (collecting issues 9-12) will be coming March 2, 2027 and is now available for preorder along with Volume 2 (coming Oct 27) on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local comic shop or bookstore.

Absurd Ventures and Dark Horse Comics are celebrating the release of American Caper Volume 1: Red-Pilled Blues at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Fans can visit the American Caper section of the Dark Horse Comics booth (#2615) to pick up a copy of the newly released first volume trade paperback, shop for first edition copies of sought-after single issues, and view original pages of artwork from the series on exhibit. Dark Horse will be hosting two rare signings at their booth signing stage: Dan Houser for his first-ever North American signing on Friday, July 24 from 10-10:50am (pre-registration required at the Dark Horse booth), signing copies of American Caper, with fans also welcome to bring one copy of their favorite Dan Houser video game to be signed; and on Saturday, July 25 from 2-2:50pm, Lazlow will be joined by American Caper collaborators Tyler Boss, Chris Anderson, Lee Loughridge, and Shelly Bond for a signing. Visit www.darkhorse.com for more details.

From yoga interrupted to the Battle of Fallujah with odd hallucinations and butlers doing burpees… it’s just another ordinary week in Verona, Wyoming.

Issue # 9 of AMERICAN CAPER is on sale now at your favorite comic shops including:

• Collectors Paradise (CA)
• Revenge Of (CA)
• Atomic Empire (North Carolina)
• Midtown Comics (NY)
• Black Cat Comics (Utah)
• Forbidden Planet (UK)
• Black Dog Comics (Germany)
• G-Mart Comics (online store – US)
• MyComicShop (online store - US)
• Archonia (online store - Europe)
  

Visit https://findyourcomic.store to find your local shop and put AMERICAN CAPER on your pull list to never miss an issue. Limited copies are also still available at the Absurd Ventures Store. Digital edition available via GlobalComix, Amazon Kindle, and Apple Books.

The first collected volume of the hit crime-fiction comic book series is now available at booksellers and comic shops worldwide. American Caper Volume 1: Red-Pilled Blues is the series’ first trade paperback collection and features the first four issues of the series. The book is now available for purchase through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-A-Million, Waterstones, Hatchards, Blackwells, Forbidden Planet, the Absurd Ventures Store, and other booksellers and comic book shops worldwide. Check out the American Caper Volume 1: Red-Pilled Blues trailer above featuring just a few of the critical accolades the series has received.

Volume 2 (Cowboys and Conspiracies; collecting issues 5-8) and Volume 3 (There Lies Madness; collecting issues 9-12) are coming on October 27, 2026 and March 2, 2027 respectively and are now available to preorder.

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…