Living in Florida is a surreal experience. It’s the kind of place where the most normal thing might be the presence of alligators everywhere. This is a state where theme parks can determine government policy, and there’s a whole breed of adult named after it. Something about America’s southernmost state attracts not just weirdos, but bizarre experiences.
So when a comic like The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre comes along, you know that you’re in for something which just might be a Wednesday afternoon there.
This winter, Mad Cave Studios unleashes The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre—a four-issue, synth-drenched action-comedy from writer Fred Kennedy (Dead Romans, Assassin’s Creed: Power), with art, colors, and letters by James Edward Clark (Evil Comics, Tales to Enlighten), and a variant cover B by Italian comics superstar Mirka Andolfo (Sweet Paprika).
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!
“I am kind of shocked this book happened…not that I don’t think it’s good,” said Kennedy in a statement. “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.”
Artist James Edward Clark added, “I’d like to commend Fred and Mad Cave’s bravery in seeing this project through to fruition. Together, I hope to open the public’s eyes to the very real and imminent danger posed to the public by nature’s most vile, disgusting, hateful abomination: The Hippopotamus!”
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!
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The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre#1 hits comic shops on February 18, 2026, with FOC on January 26, 2026.
