Dungeon Crawler Carl’s Comic Debut Has One Big Problem

In case it wasn’t what was announced before when they previously reported about it, Variety’s announced the fantasy novel series will be seeing a comics adaptation, by which I guess they mean an ongoing (and there’s also a webtoon adaptation): New achievement! “Dungeon Crawler Carl” is getting a comic series! The popular fantasy, LitRPG books by author Matt Dinniman will receive an ongoing comic book series from Vault Comics. The double-sized, 48-page first issue will launch in comic book stores beginning in January 2027. The following issues will be released monthly. The new comic will serialize the hit “Dungeon Crawler Carl” webtoon series. Writer Tevagah and Laurel Pursuit Studios, which provides artwork, will make the jump from the webtoon to the ongoing comic series. Artist Kuzomari also joins the series, which will have scaled-up art that fits the comic book page. I know there’s been some fantasy books that’ve been adapted, including Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone, so it looks like we have here another, similar example in preparation. But it’d be a lot more impressice than it sounds if they hadn’t preceded this with graded variant copies. Again, that takes away from th...