American Caper From Absurd Ventures' Dan Houser Is Getting a Double-Sized Season Finale Issue #12 - Exclusive | Comic Con 2026

IGN tin exclusively uncover that American Caper, the transgression fabrication comic bid from the caput of Absurd Ventures' Dan Houser, is getting a double-sized play finale contented #12 that volition get connected November 11, 2026.

Houser and producer/contributing writer Lazlow stopped by IGN's unrecorded amusement to stock the large quality connected the "messy play conclusion" that volition spot the "end of our clip successful Wyoming." The communicative is acold from over, however, arsenic Houser added that, "we are moving from a reddish authorities to a bluish authorities for the adjacent communicative arc that volition statesman successful a fewer months aft the extremity of contented 12."

"It’s a crescendo of chaos successful the tiny municipality of Verona, Wyoming arsenic Marty’s enactment turns into a household matter crashed by a slew of unwelcome guests," Issue #12's synopsis reads. "Orson admits immoderate not truthful charming truths to Eliza. Marnie hunts down her hubby hellbent connected revenge. Eva faces disconnected against the cartel assassin. And Dre BK keeps it calm and brings the namaste mid-firefight done copious amounts of hallucinations and yoga arsenic the Verona section of American Caper comes to a precise convulsive conclusion."

The double-sized contented from Absurd Ventures that is being published by Dark Horse Comics volition diagnostic 44 communicative pages, and determination volition beryllium 3 covers you tin spot below;

Cover A by Series Cover Artist Tyler Boss

Variant Cover B by Becky Cloonan

“I've been a immense instrumentality of David Lapham's for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember--Stray Bullets was a formative work for me, a masterclass successful storytelling and fearless characterization astatine a clip erstwhile I was successful my aboriginal years making comics," Cloonan said. "Smash chopped to past year, and he's teamed up with Dan Houser and Lazlow, with Lee Loughridge connected colors?? Gimme a break. That is simply a murderer’s row, and this publication is unhinged successful the champion mode possible. Of people I wanted to gully a cover!

"Daniel Chabon is co-editing with Shelly Bond (who I worked with astatine Vertigo), truthful erstwhile it came clip to brainstorm ocular themes the squad suggested thing on the lines of my aged Shade the Changing Girl covers. Now, okay, this publication is possibly the anthesis to Shade, but it made a batch of sense: the colors, the surreal, astir absurdist vibe... I conscionable leaned into that, and distant I went.”

Variant Cover C by Caroline Cash

“I was thrilled erstwhile exertion Shelly Bond reached retired astir this series. What a amusive ride!! It’s not mundane that you work a communicative arsenic caller arsenic this one, and it was a blast to lend a variant screen for it," Cash said.

“It’s a variant screen to extremity each variant covers," Bond added. "Who other would get the parallel of a gritty satire similar American Caper with The Great Muppet Caper but the existent epic cartoonist of Bushmiller’s Nancy strip?”

If you are caller to American Caper, which is from the caput of Houser, who was the co-founder of Rockstar Games and longtime caput writer and originative manager of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, Absurd Ventures conscionable released the archetypal measurement of the series, called Red-Pilled Blues, that gathers the series' archetypal 4 issues successful 1 collection.

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