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Robots, ruin, romance, and the end of the world in The Cardoselli and Perillo Collection

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This fall, as science fiction continues to mirror our anxieties, obsessions, and fractured futures, Mad Cave Studios brings together four critically acclaimed stories from Bram Stoker and Carlo Boscarato Award-winning creator Stefano Cardoselli and celebrated co-creator Francesca Perillo in one collectible hardcover. The Cardoselli & Perillo Collection features Don’t Spit in the Wind, Love Me: A Romance Story, Long Cold Winter, and Where Does the Rainbow End?

The Cardoselli & Perillo Collection, featuring art by Cardoselli, colors by Dan Lee and Lorenzo Scaramella, and letters by Buddy Beaudoin and Dan Lee, this definitive volume celebrates one of Mad Cave’s most distinctive creative partnerships in independent science fiction comics today.

Bold and independent science fiction at its finest, with equal parts heart, invention, and visual grit. This essential collection brings together four stories that span dystopia, romance, survival, and surreal futurism through one unmistakable creative duo.

The Cardoselli & Perillo Collection hardcover (ISBN: 9781545828519) goes on sale September 22, 2026. Final Order Cutoff is August 31, 2026.

The Cardoselli & Perillo Collection

Start Your Engines! Speed Racer Roars back into shops with a new deluxe hardcover!

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Flash the flags and start your engines! One of the most recognizable racing icons in pop culture history is back in one definitive collectable volume!

Mad Cave Studios and Tatsunoko Production bring fans Speed Racer Vol. 1 Deluxe Edition, a new hardcover collection that brings Tatsuo Yoshida’s legendary MachGoGoGo to a brand new generation.

Written by the award-winning David Pepose, illustrated by Davide Tinto, colored by Rex Lokus, and lettered by Buddy Beaudoin, this 152-page deluxe hardcover collects the explosive first arc with a bold reimagining.

Buckle up for an explosive new take on Speed Racer—where underground races are lethal, a crime syndicate has his family in its sights, and the road to victory is lined with bullets, betrayal, and burning rubber.

Buckle up for an explosive new take on Speed Racer—where underground races are lethal, a crime syndicate has his family in its sights, and the road to victory is lined with bullets, betrayal, and burning rubber.

Speed Racer lives for the thrill of the race, but on the underground circuit, the rules are anything goes. Dodging bullets, explosions, and dirty tricks, he’s got one goal: to prove he’s the best. But when a dangerous syndicate targets his family, Speed’s greatest challenge won’t be on the track—it’ll be on the streets. With the police closing in and a masked racer lurking in the shadows, Speed is about to learn that some races can’t be won with horsepower alone.

A collectible edition for longtime fans and readers discovering the franchise for the first time, Speed Racer Vol. 1 Deluxe Edition channels the spirit of the original while shifting into something grittier, faster, and wholly built for today’s comics audience. This expanded edition also includes a full cover gallery and behind-the-scenes material.

Built for maximum velocity, the Speed Racer Vol. 1 Deluxe Edition hardcover goes on sale August 11, 2026 (ISBN: 9781545830703 | $29.99). Available wherever books and comics are sold, as well as from the Mad Cave website.

Speed Racer Vol. 1 Deluxe Edition

Racer X #7 is a fun & entertaining read but leaves you wanting to know how it ties into Speed Racer

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Cypher City’s Grand Prix is rigged from the ground up…and Racer X knows it. When mob money, secret shortcuts, and collapsing bridges turn the race into a death sentence, Racer X must race the only way he can: by going off-track and breaking the system.

Story: Mark Russell
Art: Nuno Plati
Color: Giada Marchisio
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Zeus Comics
Kindle

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DC Announces Next Level: One Shot #1 by Gerry Duggan and Fernando Blanco

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DC has announced Next Level: One Shot #1, a brand‑new 48‑page DC All In special from writer Gerry Duggan, artist Fernando Blanco, and letterer Buddy Beaudoin, spotlighting the one and only Deadshot in a high‑stakes mission that pushes DC Next Level toward its explosive future.

In Next Level: One Shot, DC’s deadliest assassin goes to the Next Level and uncovers a conspiracy that will change everything. Duggan and Blanco tell the tale of a job gone sideways, a father and his daughter, and a web of super-powered lies that stretches throughout the entire DC Next Level cast of characters…and points in the direction of war on the horizon. This epic issue tells you everything you need to know about what’s next for Next Level…if you survive the experience.

Next Level: One Shot #1 is written by Gerry Duggan, with art and a main cover by Fernando Blanco. Variant covers are provided by Mark Spears, Jorge Corona, and Carmine Di Giandomenico, with a 1:25 variant cover by Mario Foccillo and a foil variant by Mark Spears. Next Level: One Shot #1 is priced at $5.99 US for 48 pages, with card stock variants at $6.99 US, and will be available on August 19, 2026.

Speed Racer #8 is a bit of a detour from the normal racing with a 90s cartoon vibe to it

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At a black-tie gala, Speed Racer’s night of romance turns explosive when gangster Cruncher Block crashes the party with the monstrous Great Mammoth Car and takes Trixie hostage. As heat-seeking missiles fly and an armored tank barrels through everything in its path, Speed and Racer X launch a desperate rescue that proves just how far Speed will go for the woman he loves. Action, spectacle, and a long-teased romance collide!

Story: David Pepose
Art: Davide Tinto
Color: Jao Canola
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Zeus Comics
Kindle

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Dog Tag #1 takes us to war in a rather serious and straightforward debut issue

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Dog Tag is a fictional story about a very real war. It follows the life and thoughts of Corporal Tom Fuller through the final year of World War II as his service takes him from the invasion of Normandy to the surrender of Japan. Borrowed from real world stories and little known events of the war, Dog Tag asks big questions about the war while focusing on the heroism of the ordinary people who lived and died during the conflict.

Story: Mark Russell
Art: PJ Holden
Color: JP Jordan
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Third Eye Comics

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Speed Racer #7 goes hard with the Days of Thunder vibe… and a little bit of Rocky

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Fathers and Sons! At the Universal Motor Showcase, Carl Kranem boasts that the deadly GRX Engine has ended Speed Racer’s era…until Speed challenges him head-on, armed not with more power, but hard-earned wisdom from Pops. As father and son clash over legacy, loss, and what it truly means to race, Speed learns that endurance and intelligence can outmatch raw force. In a blistering showdown where the GRX’s terrible cost is finally revealed, the sins of the fathers come due at the finish line.

Story: David Pepose
Art: Davide Tinto
Color: Rex Lokus
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Zeus Comics
Kindle

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Corvus has some nice familiar concepts but feels like it’s missing an emotional connection

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Corvus follows Daryn Dall, a twenty-something Black gamer who’s spent most of his life carrying the grief of losing both parents―and escaping into the digital worlds he loves. He’s a nerd, a loner, and one of the best players on Earth at Quest 4 War, the planet’s most competitive war-strategy shooter. Maybe too good. His skills have drawn attention far beyond anything human. When a secretive, grassroots intergalactic resistance identifies Daryn as a strategic prodigy, their sentient ship―CORVUS―abducts him and drafts him into a war he never asked for. Their enemy: The Mare, a terrifying alien species whose psychic abilities force entire populations to relive their worst traumas on an endless loop, driving civilizations to collapse. Their only goal is annihilation. Trapped light-years from home, Daryn must confront his own buried pain while learning to fight a threat capable of turning memories into weapons. As the galaxy’s last line of defense, he’ll have to decide whether he’s willing to rise to the role others see in him―or watch humanity fall.

Story: Buddy Beaudoin
Art: Christopher Sassman, Rebecca Sotira
Color: Allison HU
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin

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Crowdfunding Corner: Midnight Western Theatre Compendium, You Must Be This Tall To Ride #1

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Welcome to our revamped “Crowdfunding Corner” rounding up some of the latest crowdfunding news. We’re going beyond just announcement projects, we’ll be tracking to make sure these projects get delivered as well as what we think the “risk” of backing them are.

We’ll be updating the format as we get a better handle of the needs of this sort of coverage, so stay tuned and check out the first round of projects!

Midnight Western Theatre Compendium TPB

Midnight Western Theatre Compendium TPB

Publisher: N/A
Creative Team: (w) Louis Southard (a) David Hahn, Butch K. Mapa (c) Ryan Cody, Sean Peacock (l) Buddy Beaudoin (ca) Julianne Griepp
Launch Date: Launching soon
Risk: Low – The series is done and the team has run previous campaigns and delivered them on time.

In a deadly wild west, tall tales and nervous whispers run rampant of Ortensia Thomas AKA the Woman in Black! A mysterious gunslinger on an impossible mission against the forces of evil. With otherworldly—or all too human—threats finding themselves at odds with this antihero for the ages, this is a bloody story of a serious woman with a serious job to do. Thankfully, she doesn’t work alone…

Meet—or revisit!—the colorful cast of Alexander Wortham the Reluctant Vampire, Sarah Bishop the Wild West Witch, Governor Jamie Corson, Plague Doctor, Samual the Prophet, the Lone Spirit, Ata’halne, Red Tom, the Fireman, and the widely beloved Horse.

Originally published by Scout Comics and Entertainment from 2021-2023, Midnight Western Theatre is resurrected once more with this ambitious compendium Kickstarter. With over 300+ pages of comics content, this epic tome seeks to collect Midnight Western Theatre Vol. 1 (Issues 1-5), Midnight Western Theatre Vol. 2: Witch Trial (Issues 1-5), variant cover art, original series concept art, Ortensia cosplay photoshoot, behind-the-scenes making of, exclusive TV show adaptation material, and a whole lot more rooting-tooting cowboy shooting!

Saddle up your horse and get ready for the weird west comic of your dreams by writer Louis Southard (Flash Gordon / X-O Manowar), artist David Hahn (Batman ‘66 / Impossible Jones), artist Butch K. Mapa (Speed Racer / Archie Horror), colorist Ryan Cody (Justice League vs. Legion of Super-Heroes), colorist Sean Peacock (Love Honey / Godzilla Monsterpiece Theatre), letterer Buddy Beaudoin (Green Arrow / Flash), and cover artist Julianne Griepp (Laugh Riot / Comics Are Dying: The Comic).

This book is 100% done, we only need YOUR help to print and ship! If you like Jonah Hex, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Westworld, romantasy fiction, and a lot of other cool stuff, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for!

You Must Be This Tall To Ride #1

You Must Be This Tall To Ride #1

Publisher: N/A
Creative Team: (w) John McGuire (a) Ivan Rehzi (c) Ivan Rehzi (l) Tanner Eddleman
Launch Date: Launched – ends on April 10 2026 11:09 AM
Risk: Low – previous campaigns have been run and based on updates and comments delivered close to on time.

When your family inherits an amusement park from a long-missing Uncle, it turns a potentially boring summer vacation into what could be the greatest summer of all time!

However, when a game of Hide and Seek finds their youngest cousin lost in a huge run down estate, it is suddenly up to the rest of the kids to find him before their parents get home.

But what do you do if there is more to this place than you could ever imagine?

What if the various worlds and rides are portals to something else?

What if they are doorways to other realms?

How far would you go for Family?

Racer X #5 puts the spotlight on Dante Ferno as we get to know the villain

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Racer X hits the Tiger Syndicate hard… but Dante Ferno hunts harder. As X is herded into a deadly construction-site trap, Ferno unveils his chilling creed inside a taxidermy “Hall of Champions”: only predators survive. Trapped between gangland artillery and a madman’s natural-selection philosophy, Racer X must evolve fast… or end up mounted on the wall.

Story: Mark Russell
Art: Nuno Plati
Color: Giada Marchisio
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Zeus Comics
Kindle

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