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Preview: The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #3

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The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #3

(W) Fred Kennedy (A) James Edward Clark

Just when you think things can’t get any worse…they do! Not only did that nefarious drug lord, M’jor Disco, unleash coked-up hippos on the masses, but now his assassin nurses and merciless mercenary Clause Dubois are roving the amusement park as well…AND the park is flooding as a giant marijuana-fueled hurricane dumps oodles and zoodles of water all over the place. How will our sexy, well-coifed heroes ever survive!? Maybe if you buy this issue, you’ll find out!

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Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2 Continues the Insanity and Laughs

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Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2

The hippos are LOOSE! Yes, an entire amusement park filled with ravenous hippopotami chomping on families and destroying property values! It’s a good thing Miquel Senecoza and Clarke Nebraska are on the case. Although it’s a shame that Nebraska has Miquel tied to a chair while she beats him with a phone book and reveals her tragic backstory that left her hungry… for justice! So adjust your karate belts, and get ready for more derring-do… Florida style! Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2…. America, fuck yeah.

If a comic could be on cocaine, it would be Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2 which takes the insanity of the first issue, says 11 is too low, and turns it up to 12 while dosing LCD and doing bath salts. The comic is insane… completely batshit insane. It’s everything you’d want if you enjoyed the first issue and more. Written by Fred Kennedy the comic is satire, absurdity, commentary, and action all rolled into one.

Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2 is more than pure chaos, it also lets readers get to know Miquel and Clarke, again playing into tropes and craziness, diving into their tragic stories… that aren’t all that tragic and really and far more absurd.

The art by James Edward Clark delivers the insanity perfectly. Kinetic doesn’t even begin to describe the art which is more infused with pure cocaine and a heavy dose of acid. It’s loud, it’s exaggerated, it’s hyperbolic, it’s fantastic. Becka Kinzie is the flatter and Clark handles lettering and this is a comic where the art perfectly matches the script/story. It’s just loud and over-the-top and delivers over and over.

Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2 is a comic that knows what it is and leans into it heavily. It’s a send-up of the 80s, satire, commentary, and just balls to the wall action all mixed together. The comic is completely insane in all of the right ways delivering a comic that feels like it has ADHD while dialing everything up to the max. It doesn’t take itself seriously and having tons of fun and it shows on every page.

Story: Fred Kennedy Art: James Edward Clark
Flatter: Becka Kinzie Letterer: James Edward Clark
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

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Preview: The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2

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The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2

(W) Fred Kennedy (A) James Edward Clark

The hippos are LOOSE! Yes, an entire amusement park filled with ravenous hippopotami chomping on families and destroying property values! It’s a good thing Miquel Senecoza and Clarke Nebraska are on the case. Although it’s a shame that Nebraska has Miquel tied to a chair while she beats him with a phone book and reveals her tragic backstory that left her hungry…for justice! So adjust your karate belts, and get ready for more daring do…Florida style!

The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #2

The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 Gets a Second Printing

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It happened. You were warned. Mad Cave Studios has announced The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 has sold out at distribution, following its explosive debut! 

The four-issue absurdist action-comedy comes from writer Fred Kennedy, with art, colors, and letters by James Edward Clark, an original variant cover B by Italian comics superstar Mirka Andolfo, and the latest printing featuring an all-new cover by Eisner, GLAAD, and Russ Manning-nominated artist, Marguerite Sauvage!

From day one, the series leaned fully into slapstick carnage, anti-drug satire, and unapologetic absurdity, and retailers showed up ready for the ride! It’s a love letter to ’80s paranoia, grindhouse energy, and D.A.R.E. assemblies gone feral. 

Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City. But few realize its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45! Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel—Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying. Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke-fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain! Now it’s up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!

The second printing of The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 will be available on March 25, 2026, with FOC March 2, alongside issue #2. 

The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 2nd printing

Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 is as insane as it sounds… in a good way

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Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City. But few realize its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45! Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel—Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying. Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain! Now it’s up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!

Story: Fred Kennedy
Art: James Edward Clark
Flatter: Becka Kinzie
Letterer: James Edward Clark

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Preview: The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1

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The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1

(W) Fred Kennedy (A) James Edward Clark

A no-nonsense federal agent and a lone-wolf cop chase down a brutal drug lord in a flooded amusement park swarming with blood-crazed hippos and cut-throat mercenaries.

Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City. But few realize its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45! Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel—Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying. Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain! Now it’s up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!

The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1

The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre is a Wild, Blood-Soaked, ‘80s-Infused Action Comedy Where Narcos Meets Jurassic Park—With the Aesthetic of Airplane!

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Welcome to the glorious wreckage of a D.A.R.E. PSA gone wrong. This winter, Mad Cave Studios unleashes The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre—a four-issue, synth-drenched action-comedy from writer Fred Kennedy, with art, colors, and letters by James Edward Clark, and a variant cover B by Italian comics superstar Mirka Andolfo.

Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City. But few realize its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45! Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel—Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying. Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke-fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain! Now it’s up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!

From the cocaine-splattered corridors of Flamingo City to the rain-soaked tunnels of Hippo-Disco Wonderland, The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre is a fever dream of over-the-top violence, slapstick humor, and Reagan-era paranoia—where every explosion comes with a punchline, and every hippo deserves an Oscar!

Don’t miss your chance to witness the birth of the LASER DRUG FORCE, the government’s most unhinged anti-narcotics task force! The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 hits comic shops on February 18, 2026, with FOC on January 26, 2026.

The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1