After announcing last year they partnered up with Wizards of the Coast to make comics based on the very popular Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game, Dark Horse has announced their first D&D title — Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks.
The four-issue miniseries features characters from Jaleigh Johnson’s prose novels — including Tessalynde the rogue, Cazrin the wizard, Baldric the cleric and Lark the bard. It’s by the team of Greg Pak the writer, Wilton Santos the artist, Edvan Alves the inker, Raul Angulo the colorist and Nate Piekos the letterer.
“When I read the Jaleigh Johnson prose novel where the Fallbacks first appeared, my primary takeaway, which is also my highest praise, was that it felt like an actual D&D campaign I might play with my funniest, most subversive, and biggest-hearted friends,” Pak said. “We’re bringing that vibe to full-color glory on the comics page with incredible interior art by Wilton Santos, Edvan Alves, and Raul Angulo, sharp letters by Nate Piekos, and glorious covers by a slew of artists including Marguerite Sauvage. Can’t wait for y’all to join the campaign!”
Dark Horse shared more on what to expect from the title:
In a time of fickle gods and feckless governors, the world yearns for heroes! What it gets are the Fallbacks—a party of daring, dubious, and dysfunctional adventurers who arrive in the city of Loudwater in search of gold and glory. But an encounter with kobold thieves puts the Fallbacks in the crosshairs of a rival team of deeply annoying local heroes. Will the Fallbacks pull off a heist for the ages? Or will they sacrifice it all to put these “heroes” in their place?
They also shared the first issue’s variant covers by Marguerite Sauvage, Uzuri, Stephen Segovia and Dan Panosian:
The first issue (of four) arrives Oct. 15.