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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

Preview: Where Does the Rainbow End?

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Where Does the Rainbow End?

(W) Francesca Perillo (A) Stefano Cardoselli

A dramatic prequel to the hit story Love Me: A Romance Story, written by Francesca Perillo and drawn by Stefano Cardoselli. This story addresses universal themes of friendship, family, equality, and finding one’s own truth.

Gilda has been abandoned by her parents, but fortunately, she has been discovered in the Cacace Bros. Robot Dump…and has been raised by the robots who discovered her. She was lucky to be found in the Rainbow Sector by robots that cared for her. However, she has also been shielded from the outside world, other humans, and from a dangerous section of their robot world called the Dark Cage, where the most hostile of robots live. Word has spread about her ability to fix robots, though, and one vicious robot from the Dark Cage wants her to repair all of the violent robots that live there…and nothing will stop him. Artist Stefano Cardoselli (Don’t Spit In The Wind, Long Cold Winter) and writer Francesca Perillo (Long Cold Winter) reunite once again in this exciting prequel to their hit story Love Me: A Romance Story.

Where Does the Rainbow End?

Preview: Cyberarchy

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Cyberarchy

(W) Matthew Hardy (A) Clark Bint

Cyberarchy is wide-screen, cinematic sci-fi, pulling no punches in its criticism of AI and the blind adherence to tech in modern society.

What happens when a society becomes entirely dependent on Artificial Intelligence? And what happens when you take that away? In a distant galaxy, a cluster of planets use AI to run their cloning, military, heath and most facets of their lives. And one day that just…stops. All AI and mechanical lifeforms simply refuse to work. Is this an attack or just the inevitable evolution of the natural balance of organic/mechanical life? And does it really matter, when the result is societal collapse, planet-wide chaos, death and destruction? And what do the two mysterious robots ASH and RUST have to do with events? How does the Starship sitting in the centre of the Galaxy fit it? And who really came first? Humans… or Robots? Events culminate into a cosmic conflict that spans the galaxy and examines our unquestioning reliance on technology. It’s BLACK MIRROR meets TERMINATOR as we witness the creation of an AI structured, non-organic hierarchy. A truly mechanical society. The dawn of a CYBERARCHY.

Cyberarchy

Preview: Savage Sword of Conan Vol. 4

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Savage Sword of Conan Vol. 4

(W) Jim Zub (A) Roberto De La Torre, Doug Braithwaite
B&W, 214pp, $24.99

Conan returns in this unchained fourth volume, packed with brutal new tales tied to the Scourge of the Serpent miniseries. Featuring comics, pin-ups, poems, and essays from top creators including Jim Zub, Roberto de la Torre, and Doug Braithwaite, it celebrates the savage world of Robert E. Howard.

Savage Sword of Conan Vol. 4

Preview: Dick Tracy Vol. 3

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Dick Tracy Vol. 3

(W) Alex Segura, Michael Moreci (A) Geraldo Borges

The Detective in Yellow returns for a brand new story arc!

ALL-NEW STORY ARC–AND A PERFECT JUMPING-ON POINT! As Dick Tracy investigates a series of brazen bank robberies by the mysterious Summer Sisters, an old army friend appears from across the pond with ominous tidings. Plus, the Detective in Yellow’s personal life gets complicated! Still reeling from The Blank’s murderous rampage–and the ways it changed The City’s criminal underbelly–can Dick Tracy piece together a new mystery while being yanked back into his own complicated past?

Dick Tracy Vol. 3

Preview: Sonic the Hedgehog: The IDW Collection, Vol. 6

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Sonic the Hedgehog: The IDW Collection, Vol. 6

Authors Daniel Barnes Jr., Ian Flynn
and Evan Stanley

Oversize hardcover editions of IDW’s celebrated Sonic the Hedgehog comics, including the ongoing series, annuals, and miniseries, all presented in recommended reading order!

Race into these stories from across Sonic’s world, from frightful foes to old ghosts to mismatched pairs!

Speaking of mismatched pairs, who is Surge, beyond Sonic’s evil counterpart? These two speedsters just can’t seem to stop fighting, all of which comes to a head in Central City!

Following a clash with Dr. Starline, an evolved Surge is free and wreaking destruction on all technology in her path—and only Sonic can stop her. The two must battle it out, but who will win? And will forces from the past come back to haunt them?

In another story of ghosts of the past, Sonic and Tails crash on the deserted Scrapnik Island and must battle their way past tech hardwired to destroy them. However, some of these robots are different…and more personal.

Sonic the Hedgehog: The IDW Collection, Vol. 6

Preview: Dust to Dust

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Dust to Dust

(W) J. G. Jones (A) Phil Bram

Yellowstone meets Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian in this tale of a tormented Oklahoma sheriff and a scrappy photojournalist on the hunt for a serial killer at the height of the dust-choked Great Depression.

In the darkest days of the Great Depression, death rides the dust. As apocalyptic storms swallow the Oklahoma panhandle, the broken town of New Hope is gripped by a series of brutal murders. Sheriff Meadows, tormented by his past, joins forces with Sarah, a relentless photojournalist, to hunt a killer who moves like a ghost through the storm—leaving only bodies in his wake.

From comics legend JG Jones (Wanted) and co-writer Phil Bram comes a haunting, hand-painted tale of survival, grief, and the violence that thrives when the world begins to rot.

Collects issues #1-8.

Dust to Dust

Preview: Escape Vol. 1

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Escape Vol. 1

(W) Rick Remender (A) Daniel Acuña

SHOT DOWN. HUNTED. OUT OF TIME.

Set in a brutal, fully painted world of anthropomorphic animals — equal parts Inglourious Basterds and Watership Down — ESCAPE is a gritty, bullet-riddled journey through war’s scorched aftermath. It’s about the violence we inflict, the souls we try to save, and the courage it takes to crawl out of fire.

From the creative team of New York Times bestselling author RICK REMENDER (DEADLY CLASS, Uncanny X-Force) and powerhouse DANIEL ACUÑA (Captain America, Black Panther) — the duo behind Marvel’s Uncanny Avengers — comes a savage, full-throttle wartime thriller where survival isn’t given… it’s taken.

Milton Shaw is a battle-hardened bomber pilot, flying missions over a war-torn world ruled by a ruthless empire. But when his plane is shot out of the sky, Milton wakes up behind enemy lines — in the smoldering ruins of a city he helped burn. And in less than 24 hours, his own side is dropping the big one to finish the job.

Now, injured, unarmed, and being hunted through enemy streets, Milton’s only shot at escape comes from the unlikeliest place: a grieving father and his son — civilians shattered by the same fascist regime that rules this land with an iron claw. Enemies by blood. Allies by circumstance. Together, they’ll have to fight their way out before the bomb drops and erases everything… and everyone.

Collects ESCAPE #1-6.

Escape Vol. 1

Preview: Circus Maximus

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Circus Maximus

(W) Mark Sable (A) Giorgio Pontrelli

GLADIATOR meets HEAT in a brutal, pulse-pounding historical heist set during the fall of Nero’s Rome.

Rome. 64 AD. The most daring heist in history is being planned by an unlikely crew – a former slave, a Vestal Virgin, a charioteer and a disgraced architect – each with their own personal motives. While Rome is distracted by the chariot racing and gladiatorial games of the Circus Maximus, the crew plans to rob the Imperial treasury under the Temple of Saturn. But when Emperor Nero sets fire to the city, they’ll be lucky to escape his wrath with their lives, let alone the loot. From Mark Sable (Graveyard of Empires, Miskatonic) and Giorgio Pontrelli (Miskatonic) CIRCUS Maximus is GLADIATOR meets HEAT – a blood-soaked historical thriller.

Circus Maximus
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