Uncover the Mystery of Murder on the Rockport Limited with The Adventure Zone!

Adam: When reviewing a book, I feel like it's important to qualify what you're reviewing. The shipping was fine, it showed up in great shape, and the book is of fantastic quality, identical to the first volume, Here There Be Gerblins.

As a fan of the podcast, I think this is a surprisingly faithful interpretation. The names of things get changed to avoid butting heads with Wizards of the Coast, who own D&D, but in print the whole thing comes across with a very Looney Tunes-like vibe, as if you can feel how the humor is VERY SPECIFIC to the last few years. Some of it may come across as totally intelligible to someone who picks this up to read as someone entirely new to The Adventure Zone. On the contrary, to someone like me who's listened to the whole thing and been to live shows and who has an idea of the expanded canon, there are tons of little details that hint at things from non-campaign episodes of the podcast that the books would never approach in strictly following the story of the campaign, like how Jess the Beheader is seen scowling disapprovingly at a figurine of Jeff Angel in the conductor's room.

The whole thing is great, from top to...

United States on Jan 19, 2021

Seven Birds: +Beautiful colors, high quality print
+Pietsch is very consistent, the positions and actions of the characters are always clear
+The additions to the story (foreshadowing) are amazing
+Very clear format, amazing word art

- Had a hard time understanding some of the inside jokes as a non-american (but the humour is overall very entertaining)

Germany on Apr 07, 2020

keck: Un petit bijou qui se fait attendre (compter plusieurs semaines pour la livraison en France) mais qui en vaut la peine sans la moindre hésitation ! Dans la continuité du premier tome, vraiment un plaisir à lire autant pour les fans de longues date que pour les petits nouveaux qui ne connaissent pas le podcast !
Impatiente de pouvoir découvrir la suite !

France on Mar 17, 2020

Casey W.: I love these comics as a supplement to TAZ. The artwork is funny and often breathtaking, the story is far tighter and easier to follow, and nothing significant feels left out of the volume. Besides, being able to see it is a delight all its own. Clint and Carrie did an excellent job bringing this to life, and while I miss a lot of the banter and hijinks that come from listening to a podcast of close family -- and I have to admit, the times Griffin pops into the narrative and they try to include some of their meta jokes/gaming actually are a detriment to the overall comic, in my opinion -- but it illustrates one of the things that makes TAZ so special:

It's not just a funny podcast about 4 idiots playing DnD. I mean, it *is* that, but it's also just a really good story, with some of the most lovable characters of any medium. In some ways, by pulling away some of the jokes the comic lets characters and relationships shine through that get a little lost in the shuffle when you're just listening -- Magnus and Taako, for example, have some particularly sweet moments this 'episode.'

I personally wish it was just the Balance Arc told straight, without the...

United States on Jan 29, 2020

Ellen Alves: I heard the podcast and they did a fenomenal job summarising it all in this book with a gorgeous art!

Brazil on Jan 11, 2020

Dimly: I really loved this book, like the first it charges some small elements of the story but it is all in service of making everything more cohesive and adding some good foreshadowing. I’ve listened to the whole podcast, so I won’t spoiler you, but I am so excited about what is to come going forward! I love Carey’s art for this and the range of emotions she is so good at portraying. There is also a section in the back of alternate fanart interpretations of the cast which is such a good touch when the original medium is audio only so the entire fandom has such diverse interpretations of the cast. 10/10, would buy again (and I probably will, I need a physical copy for my shelf)

Canada on Aug 11, 2019

Cliente Amazon: Gran adaptación del podcast, de nuevo vuelven a recoger los mejores momentos y a adaptarlos de forma excelente, me ha gustado tanto que he empezado a escuchar los episodios desde el principio. ¡No puedo esperar a que salga Petals to the Metal!

Spain on Aug 08, 2019

Josh Mauthe: Last year, The Adventure Zone - an RPG podcast hosted by the McElroy brothers and their dad, and my favorite podcast in the world -  made the jump from the audio medium into the world of graphic novels, adapting the first arc of the Balance campaign into the bestselling Here There Be Gerblins. Against all odds, Gerblins was a blast, capturing the goofy spirit of the show while also truly adapting an audio-only, collaborative project into something more streamlined and even coherent. And if there were some little bumps along the way in that adaptation, well, Gerblins was the first arc of the show, and had its own issues, so that was to be expected a bit.

Now comes the second volume of the adaptation, Murder on the Rockport Limited, which finds our brave adventurers infiltrating a train under false pretenses and attempting to not only find a missing artifact, but also solve a murder - or should that be murders, plural? - along the way. It was the first arc of the show that was all truly the McElroys, as Griffin (the DM) made his own story and the rest of the crew started to truly get into their characters, resulting in...

United States on Jul 30, 2019