Volume 272
Issue 43
11/10/2025
Crystal Heart
In this webcomic-to-print, Aviram (City of Mist) and Or (Critical Role: Tales of Exandria—Artagan) chronicle a tabletop RPG campaign as four gaming friends role-play an adventure based on the Savage Worlds RPG system. The two-tiered story, which charts the adventures of both the players and their characters, follows the trend of RPG live-play podcasts and webseries like Critical Role, says editor Misha Gehr. But, she says the comics medium “opens up interesting new avenues for storytelling, showing the parallel stories of the people playing the game and the bigger fantasy.”
Dungeon Crawler Carl
In the Webtoon-to-print adaptation of Dinniman’s light novel series, Coast Guard veteran Carl and a cat named Princess Donut compete in a D&D-inspired dungeon crawl organized by aliens. The book is part of Vault’s litRPG light novel line, which will also publish graphic novel adaptations of the Webtoons My Best Friend Is an Eldritch Horror, The Laws of Cultivation, and The Primal Hunter. “It was a natural progression, honestly,” says Rhett Bruno, editor-in-chief of Aethon Books, Vault’s partner on the graphic novels. “For every season of a Webtoon, we get three to four graphic novels that fit perfectly on a manga shelf.”
Ogrest
Ogrest, a mini green ogre who knows little of the outside world, gets caught up in adventure when treasure hunters come to his peaceful island in search of a magical dragon egg. Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, this four-volume fantasy series by French cartoonist and animator Mig is set in the universe of the video game Wakfu, an RPG with more than 40 million players worldwide that has also inspired a tie-in animated series on Netflix.
Omori
In the manga adaptation of the psychological horror video game Omori, a shut-in ventures outside for the first time in years, reconnecting with friends but also experiencing disturbing visions and encounters with his shadow self in an alternate dreamworld. The game is an indie sleeper hit, with more than 50,000 “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on Steam, according to Vertical’s parent publisher, Kodansha, which has been serializing the manga online in English prior to its North American print release. Ages 13 and up.
RuneScape: Untold Tales of the God Wars
During the God Wars, one of the settings of the expansive RuneScape massively multiplayer online RPG franchise, an undead soldier tries to escape the necromancer who controls him. This miniseries by O’Sullivan (Void Trip), Kotian (Storm), and Bayliss (The Flash) will come printed with an exclusive in-game code to unlock the protagonist’s pet. Titan’s previous experiment with offering in-game content, 2024’s Dead by Daylight: The Legion, was one of its bestselling graphic novels of the past few years, so it has high hopes for this new tie-in. Ages 13 and up.
