pickDie is D&D meets Jumanji, acid wash Narnia, Tolkien on meth. British teens are sucked into an RPG, but they can only go home if they all agree. The art is largely impressionistic; not my cup of tea, but certainly deft at communicating the characters' emotions. Gillen comes up with really inventive character classes and abilities.
pickAnother fantastic comic book series discovered thanks to Hoopla. A group of teens in the 90s play a ttrpg and get sucked into the harsh world of fantasy. Twenty five years later, these now messed up adults get sent back into that world.
The art is incredible. I would honestly read it just for that. The story is an intriguing one, too.
We‘re at the comics & coffee part of the Readathon.
Two things:
1. The mug lies, as per usual.
2. DIE IS SO GOOD HOLY CRAP.
#readathon #deweyoct
panI got super lost. Too many characters none of them very interesting - cool premise, poorly executed.
pick6 friends start playing a rpg at a birthday party, disappear for 2 years, and return 1 person short. 25 years later they get pulled back into the game they started so long ago.
I enjoyed this. I like the idea/characters. I love the art. I‘m hesitant to completely fall in with this series as the last Gillen venture I went on stalled out halfway through... hopefully this fares better. I‘ve got volume 2 waiting on the table, so here goes. 🙂
#NCBD! Pull list releases include Steeple #4, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #14 (last issue in this run which means my daughter, who is reading it, is going to be unhappy), Undiscovered Country #2, Far Sector #2, & Ignited #5. Add-on, courtesy of the staff at Chicago Comics, is Dying is Easy #1. Also grabbed The Dollhouse Family #2 (because Joe Hill) & Die, Vol.1 about which I hear good things. Added Strange Academy & Outlawed (March) to list.
pickThis is a story about a group of friends who get together to play a RPG (like Dungeons and Dragons) called Die. However, the world is real and they disappear for two years into the game only to return missing one of their own. 25 years pass and the trauma lingers for some more than others until evidence that their friend may be alive turns up and they go back into the game. AMAZING! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 #GraphicNovels #RPGs #Fantasy
Kieron Gillen, the writer of the Wicked and Divine comics has created their own dungeons and dragons like game that you can actually buy and play.
This is a comic based off that game.
The story has A TON of Easter eggs in it for those versed in D&D...hell...even Tolkien himself shows up for a couple of pages (and it's really friggen cool). The art is fantastic too. I just wish the story didn't feel as rushed as it did at times.
4 ⭐'s.
Die Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker | 
