IDW announces new "Dungeons & Dragons" comic series

[Echohawk]

There were some Birthright comics released in the mid- to late-90s. IIRC, they were promotional/free. They used Baroness Roesone as a constant character.

I think there was only one Birthright comic released, The Serpent's Eye, as part of the 1996 TSR Limited Edition series. It does feature the Baroness of Roesone.

A few years ago, there was a limited series set in Eberron dealing with some Cyran survivor who had an eyepatch. I think she was the constable in Keith Baker's City of Towers. Can't recall her name, nor can I recall the publisher.

Like Birthright, it seems that Eberron has only ever had a single comic release, Eye of the Wolf, which was published by Devil's Due in August 2006. The eye-patch wearing constable is Captain Greykell. I didn't notice that she was a character from City of Towers, neat. That makes sense, since Keith Baker also wrote Eye of the Wolf.

 

[Echohawk]

God, I especially loved the two-issue arc with the red dragon causing a bunch of trouble on one planet.

That sounds fantastic. Do you know which issues those are?

The red dragon (Wildfyre) first appears in issue #6 "Circle of Fear", stays through issue #7 "The Power and the Price" and meets an unfortunate end near the beginning of issue #8 "Monster".

 

[Echohawk]

TSR limited edition comics
The Grand Tour [Forgotten Realms] (1996)
Dragonlance: Fifth Age (1996)
The Serpent's Eye [Birthright] (1996)
Labyrinth of Madness [AD&D] (1996)

If you'll excuse me for replying to my own post, some trivia on this series. There were originally five titles planned for the 1996 Limited Edition series. (Adverts proclaim "Collect All Five TSR Comics!") However, the Planescape comic was never released in print, but was eventually published online by WotC in 2003.

You can see the Planescape comic The Unity of Rings here.

 

[JohnRTroy]

TSR's biggest mistake was to do their own comics (which were omitted from the list), in the early 1990s. This made DC a little disappointed with their move and then the whole thing collapsed.

While I appreciate the fact that in many instances the same people who write the games and novels write the comics, I am less impressed with the artwork nowadays. It is very hard to find art I'd appreciate with these books. The A-list and even the B-list artists either work for DC or Marvel, or publish their own stuff. I compare the art I see in some of these comics to the art a company like CrossGen had with their fantasy titles and it can't compare.

Plus, the comic market is really bad nowadays. These things are costing close to $4-$5 a pop, and numbers that would have resulted in cancellation in the 1990s are now the median today. Thus I am a lot more selective with my money nowadays. I just can't see myself putting down any money for these.

 

[Jack99]

IDW as a publisher though? Not so much. Distribution on these titles is limited and confined to comic stores -- which is a specialty store I tend not to go to that often.

IDW has an Iphone/Ipad app as far as I am told, so for me, this is perfect. That way I can read D&D comics on my Ipad, should be perfect

 

[Reynard]

I don't own 'em anymore, unfortunately, and I can't find reference to them online anywhere. Anyone else out there who has these?

HTML Comics can help!

 

[JohnRTroy]

[HTML Comics can help!

Thankfully that site was shut down.

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[Zil]

If you'll excuse me for replying to my own post, some trivia on this series. There were originally five titles planned for the 1996 Limited Edition series. (Adverts proclaim "Collect All Five TSR Comics!") However, the Planescape comic was never released in print, but was eventually published online by WotC in 2003.

You can see the Planescape comic The Unity of Rings here.

There was also a Planescape comic that was part of the Hellbound Box Set.

 

[Ruined]

Looks like our friend jonrog1 is involved in this. From his blog today:

While I finish the script for Dungeons & Dragons #0 (we have things to talk about...)

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[Piratecat]

Looks like our friend jonrog1 is involved in this.

I came by to post this as well. JonRog1 is the author of the glorious storyhour "Drunk Southern Girls with Guns" and is the showrunner for the TV show Leverage. Woo!