Dark Horse Comics and Absurd Ventures have 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.

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, Chris Anderson, and Lee Loughridge, with covers by Tyler Boss.

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 Bookshop, 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.