Is human connection possible in our paranoid world?
This February, Mad Cave Studios launches IS TED OK?, a daring, emotionally charged sci-fi thriller from award-winning cartoonist and musician Dave Chisholm (Spectrum, Miles Davis & The Search for the Sound). Blending the paranoia of Severance, the scale and strangeness of Akira, and the narrative daring of Mind MGMT and Department of Truth—every issue peels back layers of surveillance, corporate manipulation, mysterious threats, while never losing its emotional core: the human desire for connection in a society engineered to sever it.
This is a story about Ted and Sarah. Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega-corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread.
Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong.
Is Ted OK? #1 lands in comic shops February 25, 2026, with FOC on February 2, 2026. Preorder it today from your LCS or directly from Mad Cave.