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…

It’s really a natural process of where the story takes us and what makes the most sense to tell it. With A Better Paradise, it is such a visually rich world the deeper you get into it, that at first we were thinking of it as a graphic novel. But, the initial story as it is told beginning in Volume One: An Aftermath, evolved into a collection of first-person accounts from key people involved with Tyburn Utopias and their development of the Daisy’s Ark project – and we really wanted to get into their heads and have you hear exactly what they experienced – so it began to make much more sense as a novel-type experience with the story told as personal monologues. American Caper, on the other hand, is a much more freewheeling crime fiction tale with a much bigger ensemble cast, and an almost neo-noirish satirical feel – which felt best to experience in an illustrated way – and we’d always wanted to properly do a comic book series, so this was a perfect fit. Our aim is always for every story to be crafted specifically for its medium across games, books, comics, audio, animation, live action projects, or any other places we wind up.

Certainly a chance! We have been in early development and discussions around a TV project for A Better Paradise for a little while now but are taking our time and balancing against our other projects. As far as American Caper, anything is possible, but right now we are all in and focused on the comic book series.

American Caper will be collected into trade paperback volumes. Volume 1 (“Red-Pilled Blues”) which collects issues 1-4 will be released next month on July 14; Volume 2 (“Cowboys and Conspiracies”) which collects issues 5-8 will be available on October 27; and Volume 3 (“There Lies Madness”) which collects issues 9-12 will be available next year on March 2, 2027. You can pre-order all of those now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local comic shop or bookstore, and the first volume at the Absurd Ventures Store. It is possible we may release a hardcover graphic novel edition collecting all twelve issues at some point down the line. In the meantime, single issues through the season finale of Issue #12 will continue to be released monthly throughout this year. We may or may not be reprinting those original single issue releases and so we encourage fans to get them while you can! If you haven’t yet, you can put them on a pull list at your local comic shop which is the best way to ensure you collect them all, and we will also continue to offer some copies for sale at the Absurd Store. We also plan to create a second arc/season of American Caper and hope to have details to share on that at some point this year.

Yes - we are working on some other stuff as well. Although for now everything will fall within the three overarching universes of A Better Paradise, the Absurdaverse, and American Caper.

We absolutely intend to release as many of our projects as possible localized in as many languages as possible, as we see the demand. We are actively working on this both for the A Better Paradise novels and the American Caper comics. So far, we have announced the upcoming French edition of American Caper which will be published by Urban Comics; Volume 1 of that will be released on September 4. Please stay tuned for more updates regarding localizations to come and thank you for your patience and support!

Yes – it was almost entirely made up of easter eggs and that's all we will say on the matter! 

Both of the titles that we are currently developing will be open world action-adventure and in 3rd person. One is set in the science-fiction thriller universe of A Better Paradise and the other is set in our satirical comedy universe, the Absurdaverse; however, we have not announced specific titles or further details as yet. A little more info can be found at https://www.absurdventures.com/videogames.

It is a bit too early to share any release date timings for either of our video game projects, but we are very excited to reveal first details about them when the time is right. And just to clarify, we are currently in development on two games – one set in the A Better Paradise world and one set in the Absurdaverse world. We may or may not make a game in the future tied to American Caper.

Glad to hear you have been enjoying all the various interviews that came out late last year with IGN, Lex Fridman, The Guardian, BBC, Virgin Radio and more. With the fall 2025 releases of the A Better Paradise novel, and the launch of the American Caper comic book series, Dan had a lot to talk about and was also happy to chat a bit about previous work on Grand Theft Auto and other classic releases. Dan did tons of interviews back in the day, although mostly for print media and websites rather than podcasts. Glad you’re liking the foray into podcast interviews. We will always try to support releases of our new games, books or whatever with media and we’ll try to be somewhat interesting while doing so! 

We love it all. Of our current projects, A Better Paradise is set in the future, and American Caper and the Absurdaverse are contemporary (however you can find some fun and odd little flashbacks to the early 2000s in some issues of American Caper).

We world premiered the first animated shorts from the Absurdaverse at an exclusive event as part of the Netflix Is A Joke festival in Los Angeles last month at the Hollywood Improv which also featured live standup comedy from some of the voices from the Absurdaverse ensemble cast including Dan Soder, Ari Matti, Annie Lederman, Yamaneika Saunders, and Steph Tolev. Stay tuned for information about future screenings and ways to see these first bits of fun from the Absurdaverse for yourself…

The Absurdaverse universe is totally separate from the A Better Paradise and American Caper universes. Expect to hear about specific series and releases that take place within the Absurdaverse – we hope to have details to start sharing about that this year.

In our opinion, there is no wrong answer here! It’s really whatever suits your preference, as each edition has been tailored for its respective format. We think the story works well as a written novel in prose, but is also excellently read by Ray Porter in the narrated audiobook edition on Audible if you prefer to listen to your books. And then of course there is the original 2024 audio fiction podcast on Spotify, Apple, etc with stellar performances from Andrew Lincoln, Paterson Joseph, Rain Spencer, Shamier Anderson and others – however it is worth mentioning that the 2025 novel and audiobook have some more details and story elements in them than the original podcast, and we edited it down to be slightly tighter, so it is a bit updated and enhanced in that respect as a slightly more definitive version.

Definitely – we will have more information on future A Better Paradise universe releases soon.

Stay tuned for the next edition of this series and, in the meantime, keep asking Absurd questions…

Finally, we would like to thank some of the dedicated community fan pages out there that have sprouted up, some of which have already been around for years, keeping the faith since our earliest and quietest days. We truly appreciate your support. Cheers to The Absurd Report and Absurd Ventures Mag as well as some of the newer pages and others who we hope to see around for the long haul; and thanks as well to some of the content creators out there otherwise on YouTube and other platforms who have been covering our work and showing Absurd love like Kloon, Ben aka VideoTech, GameRoll – and to the admins of the Absurd Ventures fan Discord, subreddit and Fandom pages. These are all great community pages to follow along as things develop over the coming year and beyond...