Coming to your local LCS next Wednesday from IDW and Dark Horse is the premier issue of the Jody Houser/Jim Zub-helmed crossover event, Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons—wherein four youths from Hawkins, Indiana will overcome bullies and school lunch and annoying older sisters to discover…Days of Endless Adventure!!! (12/13)
“I had the idea of putting together some kind of 10th anniversary special back in January and reached out to Edwin, Misty, and Marshall to see if they were interested and available. They were and we had the band back together…I started jamming on what the new story would entail and how we could deliver it, slowly turning the germ of an idea into what we’re now launching on Kickstarter as Skullkickers: Caster Bastards and the Great Grotesque.”
Described by Zub as his “love letter to Conan the Barbarian and Dungeons & Dragons, and swords and sorcery in general,” Skullkickers tracks the antics of the two aforementioned sellswords as they bash and bungle their way through the multiverse, gathering up a host of interesting friends and foes along the way. They fight fiendish necromancers, sail the seven seas, wrestle gorillas with horns, and confront a would-be world-dominating Cthulhu-like entity, with identity issues. (17/13)
Huge news today from the House of Zub and Copernicus Animation Studios: just in time for it’s 10th anniversary and fresh with a nifty new logo, the long-beloved high fantasy/low comedy adventure comic Skullkickers is in development as an adult-themed 2D cartoon!
Writer: Jim Zub (@JimZub)Art: Troy Little (@meanwhilestudio)Colors: Leonardo ItoLetters: Crank!Once upon a game, Rick and Morty and the Smith family went on magical D&D adventures…Now, magical D&D adventures are coming to Earth, and no one will survive the Painscape! The pop culture juggernaut and bestselling role-playing game team up once again in an all new companion story! I have to […]
Back for round two of the Infernal Tides storyline from IDW next week are Minsc, Boo and company, set to page by the capable hands of Jim Zub, Max Dunbar, Sebastian Cheng and Neil Uyetake. And frankly, as enjoyable as the first one was, this one’s even better… (13/13)
Rick & Morty vs Dungeons & Dragons Ch2: Painscape Oni Press, with the association of Adult Swim Wizards of the Coast IDW Written by Jim Zub Illustrated by Troy Little Colors by Leonardo Ito Letters by Crank! Additional hand lettering by Troy Little Edited by Sarah Gaydos & Chase Marotz Designed by Hilary Thompson & […]
Conan: Serpent War Marvel Comics Written by Jim Zub Pencils by Scot Eaton Inks by Scott Hanna Colors by Frank D’Armata Additional art by Vanesa R. Del Rey (James Allison scenes) Letters by Travis Lanham Solomon Kane, Dark Agnes, and Conan T. Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard THE WRATH OF THE SERPENT GOD! JAMES […]
Hmm…the world’s greatest role-playing game, set to comic format, featuring the cult-fave hero of probably my favorite computer RPG series of all time, tying in one of the more fascinating long-format modules yet offered by WotC and written by JIM-FREAKING-ZUB? Why, yes-thank-you-more-please. (13/13)
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins (Trade Paperback) Story: Matthew Mercer & Matthew Colville Script: Matthew Colville Artist: Olivia Samson Colors & Lettering: Chris Northrop Layouts: Chris Kawagiwa Cover Artist: Stjepan Sejic Publisher: Dark Horse Books Price: $19.99 (but cheaper on Amazon!) Available: Finally! Out this week (finally) is the long-awaited print version of the Critical […]