Dark Horse Reveals First Dungeons & Dragons Comic

Dark Horse has revealed its first Dungeons & Dragons comic, the result of a new licensing deal between the comics publisher and Wizards of the Coast. Today, The Gamer posted a preview for Dungeons and Dragons: The Fallbacks, a new comic book focused on an adventuring group of misfits. The team consists of elf ogue Tess, human fighter Anson, the tiefling bard Lark, dwarf cleric Baldric, and otyugh companion Uggie. The Fallbacks previously were featured in two novels published by Random House and also appeared in artwork in the new 2024 Core Rulebooks.

The new comics series will be written by Greg Pak, with pencils by Wilton Santos, inks by Edvan Alves, colors by Raul Angulo, and letters by Nate Piekos. The four issue miniseries will launch starting in October 2025.

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[Bill Zebub]

Y'all should re-read the REH Conan story, "The Tower of the Elephant" and check out the description of Taurus, "The Prince of Thieves".

 

[DarkCrisis]

From what I recall from the first half of the audiobook I heard, her being a rogue isn't really relevant to her character, it's more "insecure leader of an adventuring party who wants to be famous", discount Omin Dran basically. I don't recall her ever picking a lock or hiding in the shadows. I also don't recall her weight being mentioned in the text at all, either in a "I'm so relatable!" way or a "damn I'm hauling too much ass to make this acrobatics check" way

Oh so she’s like the main dude from the movie. Who does like 1 bard thing the whole film.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Oh so she’s like the main dude from the movie. Who does like 1 bard thing the whole film.

I mean he literally does have an extended scene where he calls himself the king of failure or something.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh so she’s like the main dude from the movie. Who does like 1 bard thing the whole film.

As portrayed in the movie -- I don't really care about the monster version on the D&D Beyond website -- he's definitely just a rogue.

 

[Parmandur]

Seems like a bog-standard party in just about every way, or am I missing something? They look like they'd be sent to kill rats in the basement of an inn as their first assignment. Are the books just a string of clichés or are the characters given any depth?

It's pretty standard D&D stuff: the novel wasn't anything to write home about, but it was clean fun.

 

[grimslade]

I don't care about the individual character art. The composition of the cover is just boring as hell, both the comic and the novel. My eyes glazed over before I could even notice there was a gold dwarf cropped out in the top image. I hope Greg Pak can spin some stories with these folks.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

except for being an elf.

Not just an elf, an elf Rogue that is highly athletic and and master acrobat, it's an absurd canon violation and makes no sense.

I say this as someone overweight, it's absurd and unimmersive, I know from personally experience. Could have made the Dwarf or humans or Tiefling overweight fine, instead they picked the most absurd combination of species & class.

The hat on the Tiefling is also setting inappropriate and unimmersive.

The Dwarf should have been a Gold Dwarf. Also he feels more like a warlock then Cleric. I like my Clerics devote, not wheeling and dealing like Warlock.

But I still enjoyed the novels.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

And aasimar are the opposite of that. They are about as uncool as it's possible to get. It's like turning up to the game wearing an orange ascot.

Aasimar are Ome, not Emo.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I can't believe we're still talking about the Rogue's weight negatively here.

When I first saw the Fallbacks cover I never once even considered her weight, nor do I think we need some magic justification why a big woman can be stealthy.

It's not the stealth, as fat guy, with great effort I can be stealthy, it's the acrobatics, it's just absurd, because not only would it be impossible, but the training for it woupd leave a person buff & slim.

Sex/Gender doesn't enter into it.

 

[Reynard]

I don’t have an issue with her being an elf. It’s being the rogue.

It as I said, not every rogue has to be the sneaky type.

Or maybe she is IDK. Doesn’t really matter,
I just found it odd and frankly who cares what I think?

The issue us you are explicitly saying bigger bodies can't be dexterous or stealthy. That's not true, or polite.