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Make 2026 the year for silly, weird, fun comics again with The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre
Mad Cave Studios is staking out an early claim for the wildest comic of 2026 with its February launch, The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre
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Looking for something… different from your comics in 2026? Something that’s not the same kind of story that you’ve seen before, and yet also feels entirely right for this moment in history? Mad Cave Studios knows exactly what you’re craving, and it’s ready to provide this February, when The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre hits shelves. Yes, that really is the title.
The product of the deranged minds of Fred Kennedy (Assassin’s Creed: Power) and James Edward Clark (Evil Comics), the four-issue action-comedy is the sort of thing that I couldn’t even hope to summarize in any appropriate manner, so I’ll just let Mad Cave do it for me:
“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!”
Again, that is honestly the actual summary of the series from the publisher. No wonder that Fred Kennedy’s statement on the series is simply, “I am kind of shocked this book happened…not that I don’t think it’s good. I think it’s amazing! But more because we don’t get much silly these days. This book is silly, VERY silly. And I don’t think there’s ever been a greater need for silly.”
The first issue of The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre is set to explode into comic book stores February 18, 2026, with covers by Clark and Mirka Andolfo. Take a look at the covers — and a sneak peek at the interiors to the first issue — in the gallery below.
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