The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons has inspired many comics since the tabletop gaming renaissance of the 2010s. In addition to the official comics licensed by Wizards of the Coast, D&D has crossed over into other comic franchises, and "actual play" podcasts like The Adventure Zone and Critical Role have started adapting their in-game storylines into graphic novels.

In this guide we walk you through all the comics in our collection inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.

Updated December 10, 2024
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Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons
Rothfuss, Patrick
Paper Book
You've got to--belch!--roll for initiative, Morty! Two pop-culture juggernauts are teaming up and neither multiverse is prepared for what comes next! When Morty sees a cute girl at school playing Dungeons & Dragons, he asks Rick to show him the ropes,...
The adventure zone. Here there be gerblins
McElroy, Clint
Paper Book
Welcome to The Adventure Zone! If your heart sings for Critical Role and Dimension 20, you'll want to dive right into this gorgeous graphic novel adaptation of the trailblazing D&D podcast, which illustrates exploits of three lovable dummies on their journey from small...
The adventure zone. 2, Murder on the Rockport Limited!
McElroy, Clint
Paper Book
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a genius child...
The adventure zone. 3, Petals to the metal
McElroy, Clint
Paper Book
With two dangerous magical artifacts already recovered, our heroes Taako, Magnus and Merle are feeling confident as they're sent out after their latest target: a notorious thief known as The Raven. She's gotten her hands on another Grand Relic, and she's using it to terrorize the city of Goldcliff...
The Adventure zone. 4, The crystal kingdom
McElroy, Clint
Paper Book
The Adventure Zone: The Crystal Kingdom takes this #1 New York Times bestselling series to haunting new heights! All these ghosts are spooky enough, but it's downright frightening how great of a read this D&D-inspired adventure is, with tabletop antics that fans of Dimension...
The Adventure zone. 5, The eleventh hour
McElroy, Clint
Paper Book
The fifth installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling Adventure Zone graphic novel series, a meta-fictional D&D adventure story based on the smash hit podcast.The Bureau of Balance has located yet another Grand Relic, and this time it's...time? A small mining town called Refuge has been locked...
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins
Colville, Matthew
Paper Book
"The band of adventurers known as Vox Machina will save the world. Eventually. But even they have to start somewhere.Six would-be heroes on seemingly different jobs find their paths intertwined as they investigate shady business in the swamp town of Stilben. Theyll need to put their heads--and...
Critical role. Vox Machina origins
Houser, Jody
Paper Book
The unlikely heroes of Vox Machina are back in action! Join familiar faces from Critical Role's smash-hit first campaign as their escapades in Stilben lead them toward new adventure - and a dire threat to Grog when he goes missing in the night. Tracking him down will see the party lose one member,...
Die. Volume 1, Fantasy heartbreaker
Gillen, Kieron
Paper Book
Tor.com's Best Comics of2018 THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writerKIERON GILLEN teams up with artist supernova STEPHANIE HANS (WicDiv, JourneyInto Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where agroup...
Roll call
Ostertag, Molly Knox
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Molly Knox Ostertag and critically acclaimed illustrator Xanthe Bouma comes an all-new Dungeons & Dragons graphic novel series! Middle school is a dungeon... At least, that's how Jess sees it. Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to...
Modern fantasy
Roberts, Rafer
Paper Book
In the city of God's Helm, built ages ago under the shadow of the crystalline Sky Castle, Humans and Orcs have terrible Tinder hookups, Beholders and Gelatinous Cubes run Fortune 500 companies, and New Wave Dwarves wait tables at trendy Hobgoblin bistros. A young Ranger woman who came to the city...
Rise of the dungeon master : Gary Gygax and the creation of D & D
Kushner, David
Paper Book
Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a first person point of view, taking on the roles of the...

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