Preview of the new D&D COmic!

[Aegeri]

Most likely. Traditionally D&D comics do not sell well. Go to your local comic shop and ask that they order it for you.

Yeah that's what I will do. Interested enough in it anyway.

Edit: I really don't have high expectations.

 

[Zaukrie]

I liked that they mocked elven/eladrin superiority with that line. Good stuff. I like that it is a "stereotypical" party. I may buy this...

 

[Pseudopsyche]

Will this series be available on IDW's iPad app? I've enjoyed catching up on some X-Men with the Marvel app, without having to find a place to keep more comics. (My parents' house still has three big boxes' worth.)

 

[Piratecat]

I like Jonrog1's writing, both here and on Leverage. He's an old school gamer with a good sense for dialogue (and an ENworlder!) I'll certainly give the comic a shot.

 

[Klaus]

"We elves walk ancient paths."

Blech.

You're missing the point. Varis, the elf ranger, is talking in a way that will grate on the dwarf *on purpose*. Hence "Shortcut. Just say Shortcut" line. Looks like John Rogers is acknowledging the elf/dwarf stereotypes and lampshading them.

And the dwarf is a Paladin of Moradin. So not all-martial.

 

[circadianwolf]

Ah, lampshading. The refuge of writers everywhere who recognize a cliche and yet can't/won't come up with something more interesting. (In this case, of course, it's not the writer's fault, but whoever handed them the assignment of writing a D&D comic, and not simply a comic about/within the context of D&D.)

Also, the "Shortcut. Just say shortcut." line reeks of warmed-over Whedon imitation snark, dulled and diluted until it's nearing the Tommy Hilfiger event horizon of derivation and mediocrity. (May just be a really bad preview, though. Hoping! But of course RPG gamers, if D&D novels are any indication, have expectations lower than readers of airport pulp.)

(Future-proofing: apologies to those offended. Write me off as a pretentious literary person if it helps.)


Mod Edit: the best "future-proofing" you can do is to not be rude in the first place. If you already know you are going to cheese people off, rather than apologize ahead of time, just don't hit the "submit" button, folks.

 

[Cor_Malek]

Hah, if the dwarf happens to be a cleric, we might hit a classic singularity there 4 pages with number of tropes surpassed only by amount of one-liners

Condescending Spellcaster? check (we might have a double, triple or quadruple hit here!
Dwarves v Elves? check
Classic races/classes combos? check
Dungeon crawling? check (with a bonus!)
The dwarf-elf exchange had one too!

And it's great! Granted, it reeks of cliches - but that's because we know them. I like to read a comic book every now and then, but I realize that the medium (especially in western culture) is generally targeted at younger people. And this, will allow them to learn all the archetypes of DnD, while more experienced players will get bonuses like the one on 2nd panel from end ;-)
Yay, comic book!

 

[SteveC]

Looks pretty decent for a 4 page intro. I'm a bit amused by the criticisms that seem to be "D&D comic is too much like D&D..."

D&D has a brand and an image, and it looks like that's what they're giving us, with pretty decent art. I'll definitely take a look at a few issues.

I would also echo the call to see if this will be available electronically. Space for books isn't something I have a lot of, yet I'd still like to read it.

--Steve

 

[TarionzCousin]

Looks pretty decent for a 4 page intro. I'm a bit amused by the criticisms that seem to be "D&D comic is too much like D&D..."

... if it weren't, people would be complaining that it wasn't enough like D&D.

It looks good to me. Thanks, Klaus.

 

[FireLance]

Nothing wrong with a heavily martial party. One of the virtues of D&D 4E is how you can have a viable party from a single power source as a neat way to introduce a theme. You really only lack a good controller with Martial and a warlock is a fun way to bring one in, especially as they discover her as a captive and not as part of the original group.

Actually, now that I think about it, an almost all martial party would give it a bit of a Tolkien vibe. All we need now is for the tiefling to ask something along the lines of: "What are a man, a dwarf, an elf and a halfling doing in a gnoll slaver camp?"

And the dwarf is a Paladin of Moradin. So not all-martial.

I thought that was a possibility, but I concluded that he was a fighter since it looked to me that he was wearing splint mail instead of plate mail. Maybe I got the armor wrong.