Spectrum, American Caper, The Spider, And Silver: Unearthed
From Mad Cave Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Rebellion & The Treasury Of British Comics
The cold is coming in, and with the early mornings, I am feeling it! Keep warm, everyone!
The latest comics news and previews, including:
A deluxe edition of Spectrum.
Some inside thoughts from Dark Horse Comics.
And two new upcoming collections from Rebellion and the Treasury Of British Comics.
The Sound of Madness, Memory, and Music, all Repackaged in a Deluxe Edition
A special, deluxe edition of Spectrum is coming early January 2026 from Mad Cave Studios.
Mad Cave Studios presents SPECTRUM (Deluxe Edition)—a frenetic, genre-bending exploration of how music can both save us and unravel us. Written by Rick Quinn (Saltwater) and brought to life by Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis and The Search for the Sound), this expanded 176-page hardcover reimagines the original with lush, evocative art and backmatter that includes a variant cover gallery and the original black and white art boards, diving deeper into the creative chaos behind the story. It’s a book that hums with energy, vibrating between sound and sanity, where every panel feels like a note played at the edge of control.
Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the streets of Seattle during the WTO protests of 1999. She is seeing things. Androids. Aliens. Pigs in high fashion. And a creature named Echo—one of the Sustained: elemental beings with the power to alter reality through music. She invites Melody to join her as she brings about the end of the world. As Melody tries to escape this strange woman, suppressed memories from across vast spans of time flood into her awareness, bringing her very identity into question.
For fans of Blue in Green, Murder Falcon, and Chasin’ the Bird, Spectrum channels the electricity of jazz, the introspection of modern art, and the raw pulse of rebellion into one unforgettable story about music’s power to create—and destroy.
The Spectrum Deluxe Edition hardcover will be available January 27, 2026. Readers can preorder now through their favorite local comic shop or major bookseller.
Dan Houser Reveals The Idea Behind His New Crime Fiction Series, “American Caper”
A new series is out now from Dark Horse Comics, and it is always interesting to see what is behind the creation, and we have some of that here from Dan Houser about American Caper.
Every month, Dark Horse Comics gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a comic or book in the Horsepower column which appears in each of our printed comics issues for the month. These articles can include the inspiration behind a specific title, what it’s like to work in the comics industry, or some other special feature on the highlighted title of the month. In this month’s Horsepower, Dan Houser describes how he came up with the idea for his new crime fiction series, American Caper:
I’m not quite sure when it began. Was it studying for the citizenship test, or whatever it was called, when I became an American that made me fully realize America was a country founded by lawyers for lawyers? Was it spending time in the Rocky Mountain states that made me think about how much they were changing and how ripe that part of the world was for a story? Was it watching once peaceful and entirely apolitical families I knew become wildly politicized and tear themselves apart over nonsense? Or was it hearing discussions of politics become more about arguments than about policies?
I don’t really know, but I began to realize a few years ago that crime and political arguments and the law and social changes were all becoming the same thing and that I found all of it very confusing.
Who was a criminal? In this new world: anyone who disagreed with you.
What was politics? All-out war, over everything.
Why was America heading down the tubes? Because of them. It was all their fault, whoever they may be.
Everyone thought everyone else was to blame. Everyone felt they were being duped, lied to, and ripped off by a vast system that it was their moral duty to try to destroy. Everyone felt they alone had the right to a quick buck.
This is the world I wanted to depict in American Caper.
I had begun to see a new criminal comedy emerge. A story not just about criminals, but about all the people who aid and abet them. About a system that wants conflict—and about people who think they want a revolution, only they don’t quite know why. A story about people who make compromises, sell themselves out, commit one awful act, and are not paying the price of getting roped into darkness.
This would be a tale about a world of crippling college debt that forces people to sell out young and then regret it forever, about a world of real estate development in which pristine nature is bulldozed then sold as some place made authentic by the fakest people alive, in which market forces have endlessly distorted and corrupted your dreams until you no longer know what you want or what you think, and about a world in which evil comes calling for you wearing tasteless leisurewear.
I wanted a crime drama that was also a family comedy, or a family drama that was also a crime comedy—I was not quite sure which. I wanted a modern family story that was both ridiculous and somehow believable, about two suburban families gone utterly insane, and I wanted to write it in a new form for me—or at least a form I had only dabbled in before—comics. I have always loved the art form—I grew up reading anarchic English comics, and felt it was the perfect medium for describing a world gone insane.
The other reason I wanted to work on this comic was because I would get to work with legends. Along with my old friend Lazlow, I would work with masters of the craft like David Lapham, Shelly Bond, Nate Piekos, Chris Anderson, Tyler Boss, Lee Loughridge, Simon Bisley, and more. A multitude of talented artists who could help tell a long story about fake sugar, real estate developments, and what not to do with a shovel.
—Dan Houser
American Caper #1, by Dan Houser, Lazlow, David Lapham, Lee Loughridge, and Nate Piekos, is now on sale at comic shops!
The Spider’s Syndicate of Crime vs. Spider-Boy
A new classic collection is coming soon from the Treasury Of British Comics with The Spider’s Syndicate of Crime vs. Spider-Boy.
CREATIVE TEAM: Jerry Siegel (w) Reg Bunn, John Burns (a)
RELEASE DATE: December 3rd
PAPERBACK, 112 pages
PRICE: £16.99
ALONG CAME A SPIDER-BOY!
The Spider is a sensational adventurer who operates on both sides of the law, using a whole host of hi-tech equipment to stay one step ahead of his enemies.
When gangleader, ‘Turk’ Dobbs crossed Criminal scientist, Sylvester Jenkins, the evil genius had Dobbs killed and framed the Spider for the murder. Not long after, a new enemy - ‘Spider-boy’, emerged from the shadows, seemingly intent on causing trouble for the ‘King of Crooks’. With access to his own super equipment and an unparalleled hatred for the web-master, the Spider has never encountered a foe like this before!
Available in print from: Treasury of British comics webshop, online retailers, book stores, and comic book stores via Diamond
Available in digital from: Treasury of British Comics webshop, 2000 AD app for Apple & Android
Silver: Unearthed
From the pages of 2000 AD, Rebellion brings us this action-packed collection mixing science fiction and horror elements in Silver: Unearthed.
CREATIVE TEAM: Mike Carroll (w) Joe Currie (a) Simon Bowland (l)
RELEASE DATE: December 10th
PAPERBACK, 112 pages
PRICE: £16.99
Earth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the resting place of a five-hundred-year-old vampire, who may just help them against the alien Sepsis, who invaded the planet a few decades earlier. The vamp, called Baroness DeSilva, soon proves to be a powerful ally , as she fights to defend her food source from the extra-terrestrial enemy!
An all-new Thrill from the award-winning writer Mike Carroll (Dreadnoughts) and artist Joe Currie (Judge Dredd) crashes genre into unpredictable genre. Acclaimed on release, the supernaturally charged Silver crashes the past into the far future for a fast-paced adventure which will blow your mind!
Available in print from: 2000 AD webshop, book stores, Amazon, and comic book stores via Diamond
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD app for Apple & Android
