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Title | Here There Be Gerblins
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Author | Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
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Illustrator | Carey Pietsch
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Publisher | First Second - 2018
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First Printing | First Second - 2018
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Title | Murder on the Rockport Limited!
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Author | Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
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Illustrator | Carey Pietsch
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Publisher | First Second - 2019
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First Printing | First Second - 2019
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Title | Petals to the Metal
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Author | Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
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Illustrator | Carey Pietsch
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Publisher | First Second - 2020
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First Printing | First Second - 2020
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Title | The Crystal Kingdom
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Author | Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
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Illustrator | Carey Pietsch
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Title | The Eleventh Hour
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Author | Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
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Illustrator | Carey Pietsch
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Title | The Suffering Game
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Author | Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy
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Illustrator | Carey Pietsch
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Category | Graphic Novels
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Taako, Merle, Magnus
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Main Elements | Elves, Dwarves, Warriors, and pretty much everything else too
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 Here There Be Gerblins
Welcome to the Adventure Zone!
SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!
READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!
MARVEL! At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time!
Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.
With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure.
Murder on the Rockport Limited!
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts, and a pair of meat monsters.
You know, the usual things you find on a train.
Hot on the heels of "The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins", the smash hit graphic novel that launched the series, "Murder on the Rockport Limited" picks up the saga where volume 1 left off. Both books are based on "The Adventure Zone," a tabletop RPG comedy podcast with downloads numbering in the tens of millions and an army of passionately devoted fans. With art and co-adaptation from Carey Pietsch, the McElroys are once again turning their raucous freewheeling D&D campaign into some damn fine comics.
Petals to the Metal
START YOUR ENGINES, friends, as we hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved agents of chaos from the #1 New York Times Bestselling books The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins and The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited.
Our boys have gone full-time at the Bureau of Balance, and their next assignment is a real thorny one: apprehending The Raven, a master thief who’s tapped into the power of a Grand Relic to ransack the city of Goldcliff. Local life-saver Lieutenant Hurley pulls them out of the woods, only to throw them headlong into the world of battle wagon racing, Goldcliff’s favorite high-stakes low-legality sport and The Raven’s chosen battlefield. Will the boys and Hurley be able to reclaim the Relic and pull The Raven back from the brink, or will they get lost in the weeds?
Based on the beloved blockbuster podcast where three brothers and their dad play a tabletop RPG in real time, The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal has it all: blossoming new friendships, pining for outlaw lovers, and a rollicking race you can root for!
This year I read a fair amount of Dungeons and Dragons, and I also read a fair amount of graphic novels. This combines the two and puts a silly twist on it by having the most inept and self-centered characters. I thought I would love it, but in the end, not so much.
I didn't mind the swearing at first, but then it just got gratuitous and non-stop, which made it less fun and more crass. And while I laughed at their misadventures and hopeless heroes and inept villains, it again, was a little too crude and rude for me. I don't watch things like Saturday Night Live because I think the humour is dumb, and this is along those lines. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't entirely to my tastes either.
I did learn a bit about how to play D&D and what a Dungeon Master's role is so that was a plus, not having ever played the game myself. And the artwork was good, it matched the style of the storytelling. And the little insets with the DM were super cute.
If I had to buy the books, I'd go Critical Role all the way. But that said, I'm curious to dig up The Adventure Zone podcasts, I wonder if it might actually be more fun listening to the dialog then reading it? And when the weather warms up a bit and I can walk to the library again, I'll be borrowing the rest of the series, after all, it is silly fun.
Aaannd...I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out if Taako is a guy or not, they never referred to him as he or she, though at one point the group is referred to as "dudes". A little Google came up with this, which sounded about right to me! I love the "may or may not be" bit...
Taako is a "gay dude." This is "100% canonical," according to Justin. He may or may not be a man, but uses he/him pronouns.
April 2024
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