Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly Roll the Dice with Dungeons & Dragons in Dark Horse's November Horsepower

Every month, Dark Horse Comics gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a comic or book in the Horsepower column which appears in each of our printed comics issues for the month. These articles can include the inspiration behind a specific title, what it's like to work in the comics industry, or some other special feature on the highlighted title of the month. In this month's Horsepower, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly discuss Dungeons & Dragons: Ever get offered your dream job and had to play it super cool? We hadn’t. In fact, we are infamously uncool, expressive, excitable guys—so we can’t even really pretend.But then, Dark Horse called to ask if we’d want to launch an all-new, ongoing Dungeons & Dragons comic.Thing is: we had just made the choice to actively take less work after a bunch of years at Marvel and Star Trek, and we didn’t want to break that promise just to fulfill a childhood dream. If we were going to take on the project, it would need to be unlike any D&D adventure that had come before. Not a story about a level 6 party in over the heads, but a level 20 party functioning at the apex of their skill. The look would need to be striking and ...