#soren builder of worlds

[tippedarrows]

Yo, seen your blog and it’s super cool. I’ve been kinda wondering what you think of Soren because his character has been confusing to me, I’m not the best at reading characters so I apologise but he’s a coward, he feels lonely, he’s tired of being used and thrown away apparently and wants to be more than the architect??? I have no idea what he’s like. If anyone has any other inputs on Soren please put it in

Okay I'm answering these out of order because the others I'm going to draw, but this one.

you've come to the right person!

when it comes to soren's character, he is a coward through and through so you have that right. What it is is that back when he used the Command block, he thought it was the best way to deal with it, and only had to deal with his mistakes after when he used it in shame. It was like wanting your friends to be popular in school so you lie and say " yeah we met the president " yk. It was wanting to bring everyone up with him.

Of course, we know he's shameful about it. He couldnt handle the guilt of what he had done with the secret, and was sentimental, which is why Ivor was able to keep all of their stuff. He ran away to the one place he messed everything up and lived there. Yeah - he went a little bonkers in missing the sun, but the fact he never wanted to plan to come back really hammers that home.

Distracting himself with everything else. Hes kooky like that yk

I personally believe that he holds remorse but wouldnt go back on it BECAUSE it makes him look like a coward. He denied being one before running away.

They needed someone to idolize - the people. To have someone to keep them safe and believe in. Whether it gets muddy over time or not, it never mattered, because they needed something to believe in.

That's why I believe he never told anyone.

Shame? Yes. Pride? Also yes.

Let the image the public has of you in their mind stay that way and not know who you really are, because they need someone to look up to. Who better than the people that killed the ender dragon?

Canonically, hes got so many secrets. Soren - the architect. Builder of Worlds. That speaks for itself.

so like .. I hope this made sense because he's my favorite out of the order. I hope it helped a little.....

[hellsitegenetics]

Nothing built can last forever. And every legend no matter how great, fades with time. With each passing year, more and more details are lost until all that remains are myths...half truths. To put it simply, lies. And yet, in all the known Universe, between here and the Far Lands, the legend of the Order of the Stone endures, unabridged, as self-evident fact.

Indeed, it is only a troubled land that has need for heroes- and ours was so fortunate to have, so long ago, four heroes such as these: Gabriel the Warrior- before whose sword all combatants would tremble. Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer- whose machines would spark an era of invention. Magnus the Rogue- who would channel his destructive creativity for the benefit of all. Soren the Architect- builder of Worlds, and the leader of the Order of the Stone. These four friends together, would give so much to gain their rightful place as four heroes.

Their greatest quest would take them on a dangerous journey to fight a mysterious creature known as the Ender Dragon. In the end, the Order of the Stone emerged victorious and the dragon was defeated. The story complete, they slipped away into pages of legend.

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[mcsm-confessions]

I love the idea of Soren being an old builder (which is semi-canon btw since he comes from a different world) because that would mean the old builders discovered or made the command block and he just stole it like Harper did with the redstone heart.

and that would explain how people just respawn when they die.

also, if you like the idea that Ivor and Soren once dated, that would mean Ivor got a type.

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[auduux]

Hello mcsm community

It's been years since i've played this game and I started crying when I figured out you can't play it anymore then started crying again when someone told me where to get s1 and s2 for free so that has sparked determination in me.

So, I have come to tell you I will finally contribute to this fandom. I am writing a season 3, where Romeo is still an admin. It's an au where Romeo made a deal with Jesse after realizing he might actually not win. The deal was that he would give Xara back her admin abilities and not kill anyone (and/)or destroy people's homes and he would get to keep his abilities. Jesse has the golden gauntlet in case he goes rogue.

There will be two versions, one with male Jesse and one with female Jesse, they have very different personalities. I'm using my own versions that I used. Each chapter will be 15k or 20k words, still haven't decided. I want to make them longer than my usual works.

Fem Jesse went with Petra after the Romeo situation was fixed, enough, and put Radar in charge. Male Jesse stayed in charge. You can probably guess why. (Fem Jesse is with Petra, male Jesse is with Lukas)

It is mostly centered around Xara, Romeo, and Radar but everyone else will have their moments too. It goes more in-depth on the other worlds through the portal network too, and Otto and Emily as well as the old builders world will be there a few times. So will the Sky City people and their new cities. The underground might be in there too.

I saw a post on here about shipping Nell and Xara and honestly became obsessed so...Xara is with Nell. Romeo will be with Radar after getting over Fred because Radar is my favorite and who doesn't want to start dating the emotionally constipated god that almost killed you, your friends, your townspeople, the world, locked a bunch of people under bedrock and started anew, killed their husband out of rage and confusion, locked up their best friend also out of rage and confusion, and hated you for about three months? It's fine tho he made challenges for them. Because he feels bad. And helped rebuild. Because he feels bad.

And there's FUCKING SOREN and his DUMBASS BOOKS as a treat. And Isor.

[kibblywibbly]

Hey guys I just noticed something

In the intro to mcsm, we get the introductions to all the members of the order of the stone right? But one is a bit off..

"And Soren the Architect, Builder of Worlds."

Builder of worlds? Like.. an Old Builder perhaps? And we all know that Sorens books are EVERYWHERE right? So here's what I'm thinking, what if Soren is an Old Builder. Ivor knew about the Old Builders, quite a lot actually, but how? Maybe Soren told him about them but didn't say he WAS one? And how did he have so much knowledge? How did his books bet everywhere? And also we can forget how Harper also had a world she looked after, what if the world where Mcsm takes place, is the world Soren was looking after? What if Soren is an old builder that is just never talked about? Why else would there be so many books written by Soren EVERYWHERE, basically in almost every world. AND ALSO I nearly forgot to mention, how did Soren know about the command block or how to use it? How did he even get ahold of it? So many questions, all left unanswered,,

Who IS this guy? Where did he come from? Where did his knowledge of the world come from?

[abugsomewhere]

Here i go, flip-flopping from thought to thought!

Anyway, i had an idea. A story set post-s2, if Jesse stayed in Beacontown. Jesse doesn’t permanently stay in Beacontown, he’ll go visit Olivia or Axel, maybe Jack and Nurm will invite him on an adventure, maybe he goes with Petra on a few of her shorter adventures.

Ivor really does look for all the members of the old order (no one dies, fuck canon) and actually has some success. Magnus and Ellegaard are in their respective towns. The only problem members are Gabriel and Soren — Soren went missing again after the Witherstorm event, and Gabriel is trying out being a “wandering warrior”.

Ivor focuses on Gabriel, as he would probably be the easiest to talk to (regarding Soren’s prior frustration with Ivor). He eventually finds him when Gabriel comes to see how Beacontown is doing (“I looked all over the damn world just for you to be here?!”), so the only one that’s left to find is Soren.

He’s not in his fortress,

He’s not in the end,

He’s not even at the former order’s old meeting spot (ignore me forgetting what places are called).

So Ivor, having looked everywhere, tries the portal network, and lo and behold, there he is.

Yes, this is an old builder!Soren au. Yes, it is going to turn into something similar to the second half of s1. Because i LOVED the idea of the portal network, and i want more. I may write a fic, but i may also just explore this through art and crazed rambling. Who knows.

(Please ignore any and all typos/grammatical errors, this was written on adrenaline and boredom)

[thebuilderbump]

to some its weird thinking of ages for the main cast in mcsm, but i have my theories (headcanons that i use to make sense of the story and how i choose to perceive it)

new order (jesse, lukas, olivia, axel and petra) all act like most people in their late teens/early 20's, or at least the minecraft equivalent. still excited about things like conventions and idols, and also worrying about their social image. they want to be cool and to be known as something other than a loser

ocelots/blazerods are mostly the same, if not a slight bit older. i think gill's the oldest because of that fuckass facial hair. sir please razors exist (hopefully?)

old order is like. the middleground. late 40's and just barely trudging into their 50's while thinking they have a solid retirement plan (lying to the world and being cheaters). that and soren has that 'middleaged man mania' as i like to call it. Old builders maybe just a bit older because I believe in ivor and harper love.

admins are god they don't age. but i hope romeo DIES

Aside from making the storyline kinda make sense, it also makes a lot of petra's character make sense. She's always been perceived as the dare devil, the adventurous one. Getting wither skeleton skulls, somehow achieving a nether star (for the ocelots beacon in ep1), and eventually assisting in defeating a witherstorm. She's used to the adrenaline and energy, so of course in s2 when everyone starts to actually have responsibilities (being mayor, taking over a town from a late order member depending on who dies, and having a career), she feels left out because she's used to adventuring with others. Depending on the route the player takes with jesse, they can either hate their duties as mayor or love them. but it's mostly a sign of people growing up and having responsibilities.

[xaramybeloved]

MCSM headcanon #2

Petra/Gabriel (depending on who is in the wither storm) have amnesia when you see them again because they personally attempted to mess/disable the Command Block

Because like, the wither storm is just a fools attempt at revenge that blinded him from the effects. The command block, is a god's toy, not meant to be seen, let alone used, by a mortal. Soren, being a god's protege an ex old builder, heard about them, and stole one.

The wither storm should have just caused wither sickness/muscle fatigue. Instead, with the blood of a world's creation, it can erase a mortal if they don't know what they are doing.

[zuliuli]

wait- I've been thinking about your swap A.U, but if the blazerods are swapped with the old builders, does that mean that Soren was the leader of his little group, wich mean he got kicked out, and that Lukas come from another world? Does that also mean that during the portal arc, the group keep on finding Lukas' books in every world?

sorry I keep on asking about that, I'm very curious, and I like what you do :0

While Soren did start their group, Hadrian was more of the leader than he was. Hadrian and Mevia thought he was too soft, and Otto refused to get involved, so Soren eventually would've left of his volition.

As for Lukas, do come from another world, and yes, the new order finds his books laying around while traveling the portal hallway. (Instead of the endermen books you'd find, Lukas instead wrote about ocelots and cat varieties). They only difference is, since it's only the 4 of them, someone has to take harpers place when going into episode 8, so I have Lukas coming back in the middle of episode 7 and sticking around until then.

[sillysnaildraws]

Opinion on the headcanon that all of the important lore groups are the way they are because of the command block? Like, it existed before the admins and they got their powers in the first place from it. Then the old builders got ahold of it and used it for all their magic items and exploration and instating respawn. And then Soren left and took it with him to end up in Jesse’s world to make the Order of the Stone. And then the Witherstorm happened causing the New Order of the Stone to form. And now it’s gone. And each of the leaders of each group lines up perfectly with one Alice from the song Alice Human Sacrifice in chronological order

I like it a lot!

In my brain, the Admins all have some kind of gem that gave them the powers but thinking about it now, it could have very well come from the command block! After all, there a different coloured squares on them, what if those are the gems that fell off?

But I could definitely see this, after all, the command block is this all powerful thing that should be unattainable! So making it be the cause of the events is quite cool! But how did it get there in the first place? My take? Herobrine! In my head, Herobrine likes to play around with things, which leaves behind strange anomalies, such as random holes in the ground that reach the void and so on. He probably used the command block to do so, and once he noticed humans in the woods he tended to hover in, Herobrine decided to leave some of the command block's gems to see if the humans found them.

This is the same for the Old Builders but this time he went one step further, leaving the entire command block to circulate around and cause mayhem.

I love that song sm!

[tippedarrows]

Dewey IS the life savior!

Like that you made me remember that in my opinion Gabriel is, like, the richest out of the Order? C'mon, he's the only one going around, making those speeches and stuff to earn money. And my personal hc that he's extremely lucky to find diamonds..

Imagine Gabriel being not just Dadbriel but sugar Dadbriel for Old Order! Extremely funny considering he looks the youngest among them! Xd

Or or here me out, he goes back from mines all sad and stuff and Soren asking "What's wrong? Didn't get anything?", then Gabriel answers "Nah, I got some stuff, but I wanted iron." Magnus pops up his head in doorway "So? Got only coal?" and Ellegaard behind him "Or redstone? I could take it". Gabriel sights heavily and pulls out, like, stack of diamonds or so "Just diamonds! For Notch sakes, I needed iron and not that stupid stuff-" and goes aggressively to his room, while whole Order looks like bunch of deers in headlights.

I'm rambling about Stoopid stuff over here

- Mr. C

I dont mind!! I dont get super interacted with much so I love this

reminds me I exist and I'm real lol.... <- sorry that's just my humor

Oh my GOD That is So funny. I like the hc that he's REALLY GOOD at finding diamonds. it's like the midas touch but diamond.

In my personal opinion, (and arguably the less original idea), I think soren is the richest. Purely because brother has a MANSION and also hes the builder of worlds.

he got rich because I GAVE HIM THAT MONEG because I LOVE HIM. I LOVE YOU SOREN MINECRAFT!!!!!

Thinking about Soren losing money over the years when he goes into hiding and just surviving off his fortune, and Gabriel, doing the wandering warrior thing, is just LOADED.

Jesse's like hey ivor!! hows the reconnecting going!! and ivor's like. oh, yes, jesse. Gabriel had a gift he wanted me to give to you

HANDS HIM TWO DIAMOND BLOCKS??????????? HUHHHHH???? then ivor proceeds to complain that yeah Gabriel had way too much and though you could break the blocks down for a new sword. and jesse's just like. IVE LITERALLY NEVER HELD A BLOCK OF DIAMOND BEFORE IVOR I LIVED IN A TREEHOUSE WITH MY PIG.

[bricheese-zip]

okay i had to rummage around and find the password to this old account to get this out there because i thought too hard about this dumb little block game and now i need to get this out there. if this is well known now (idk i haven't been on tumblr in years, who knows what's been happening) then oh well, i'm a fool. still wanna put my thoughts out there tho

so all throughout Eps 5-8 of Season 1 of MCSM we get hints here and there for us to put together that Soren was an old builder. yeah i know, old news, whatever. but in Season 2 Ep 4, we find one of Soren's books in Fred's house after we win the trivia contest (or lose and break in, whatever) called "The Brave Little Enderman" or something like that, right? as Jesse reads it, it seems pretty amateur for a "great author" like Soren, and also, how the hell did Fred even get his hands on it in the first place?

Well thinking about it further, in S1Ep5, Ivor mentions that the Old Builders existed even before the Order of the Stone (go figure), but then someone else (i think Jesse as one of the dialogue options) says they didn't know there WAS anything before the Order. This implies the people and history of this world, as well as the world itself, is very new.

This actually lines up with my thoughts, as I think Fred (and possibly Romeo and Xara idk) met Soren and the other Old Builders before the Underneath and the Sunshine Institute got bedrocked, and gave them access to the Command Block in the first place, with Soren giving Fred one of his first ever books he wrote as thanks.

Then after the events of Fred dying, Xara losing her powers and Romeo bedrocking everything and creating the new current world, Soren moved in from the Old Builder's world as one of the first people to live there. He then assembled the order, and the story pretty much goes on from there.

I thought way too hard about this and it only took, what, several dozen rewatches of playthroughs for it to finally click in my brain what happened? I care about this game way too much lmao

idk if @stirpicus still responds to questions and theories, but if he gives this a read and puts in his two cents (whether its confirming or not, i understand he likes to keep things cryptic so fans have fun interpreting things their own way) i honestly wouldn't complain

thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

[mcsm-confessions]

I don’t know how much this has been discussed (probably a lot) about the missable yet great relationship between Lukas and Ivor (platonically. Just in case.)

Like, they have these cute moments where they get to know each other slowly during episodes 5-8, and even make fun of each other and laugh. But it’s more than that.

In the order, Jesse is obviously Soren : builder and leader. Petra is Gabriel, Olivia and Axel are Ellagaard and Magnus. And Lukas is Ivor. More reclusive, lost in books, and most of all, left aside and forgotten. Sure, Lukas made the books about the New Order, but he’s technically not in it (like how he didn’t climb on the podium at the end of episode 4, which always bothered me).

And they both chose to leave/stand aside next to their Order. But the key difference is their personality. Ivor spent years (decades ?) in the dark to create a menace big enough to show the world that their beloved heroes are impostors, and that he is the only one who could be considered legendary enough. While, if the same thing had happened to Lukas (aka the lies) he would have never tried to get revenge on them, especially by putting everyone in danger. He probably would have written books about it, and another, single book saying the whole truth he would have wanted to publish, but never could, for his ex friends’ sake.

Anyway, sorry about the novel. I was replaying like I do every year and had this thought. Happy new year you all !

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[wedix]

Headcanon time!

MCSM season 1

F! Jesse(Jessie) - 24 years old, bisexual, pronouns: she/her

M! Jesse - 26 years old, gay, pronouns: he/him

Reuben - 8 years old

Petra - 25 years old, lesbian, pronouns: she/they

Lukas - 25 years old, pansexual, he/him

Olivia - 21 years old, transgender/bisexual/demisexual, she/her

Axel - 22 years old, aroace, he/him, ADHD

Ivor - 50 years old, bisexual, he/him

Gabriel - 54 years old, aroace, he/him

Ellegaard - 48 years old, pansexual, she/they

Soren - 51 years old, omnisexual/agender, he/it

Magnus - 50 years old, straight, he/him

Aiden - 26 years old, gay, he/him

Gill - 24 years old, pansexual, he/they, autism

Maya - 20 years old, lithromantic/gynesexual, she/her

Isa - 39 years old, aroace, she/they

Benedict - 12 years old

Reginald - 42 years old, bisexual/asexual, he/him

Milo - 36 years old, pansexual, he/they

Cassie Rose - 26 years old, lesbian, she/her

Winslow - 7 years old

Hadrian - 47 years old, straight, he/him

Mevia - 46 years old, lesbian, she/her

Otto - 45 years old, aroace, he/him

Harper - 46 years old, bisexual, she/her

Nell - 22 years old, omnisexual/transgender, she/they, ADHD

Emily - 25 years old, asexual/straight/transgender, she/her

MCSM season 2

F! Jesse(Jessie) - 30 years old

M! Jesse - 32 years old

Petra - 31 years old

Lukas - 31 years old

Olivia - 27 years old

Axel - 28 years old

Ivor - 56 years old

Nell - 28 years old

Dewey - 2 years old

Stella - 26 years old, lesbian, she/her

Lluna - 5 years old

Jack - 47 years old, gay, he/him

Nurm - 44 years old, gay/agender, he/it/they

Vos - 48 years old, graysexual, he/him

Romeo - 38 years old, pansexual/transgender/non-binary, he/they/it

Xara - 40 years old, bisexual/non-binary, she/xe/xer

Fred - 42 years old (he was 37 when he died), ceterosexual/non-binary, he/they/it

The Warden - 40 years old, aroace, he/him

Binta - 25 years old, omnisexual, she/they

And this

Jesse and Jessie are half-brother and half-sister.

Olivia and Axel are cousins.

Petra is papa's girl and Lukas is mama's boy.

Ellegaard and Magnus were married, and they also had a child, Aiden. But due to frequent quarrels and misunderstandings between each other, Ellegaard and Magnus broke up when Aiden was 5 years old, Aiden stayed with his father. When Aiden turned 14, he left home and began an independent life. No one knew that Aiden was the son of Magnus and Ellegaard, he hid it himself, bc he didn't love his parents.

Cassie is Mevia's daughter. No one knows who her father is, Mevia refuses to tell anyone about it, just know that she didn't want to be a mother, she was forced to do it. Mevia had never shown love for Cassie, but Cassie loved her. Btw Mevia calls Cassie Cassidy. Otto and Harper treated Cassie well, Otto was even like a father to Cassie. Cassie lived with the old builders, but when she was 19, Mevia pushed her into one of the portals, where she got stuck. Cassie was 26 when she met Jesse, in fact she spent 7 years there.

Cassie Rose's nickname was from Nell. Nell called her Cassie Rose.Nell and Cassie had known each other since childhood, as they lived in the same world. Nell liked Cassie, but Cassie didn't know how she felt about Nell.

Fred and Xara dated, even wanted to get married:P

Soren and Ivor are exes.

Lukas and Aiden dated, but Lukas decided to break up with Aiden, as he didn't like his attitude to others, besides Lukas began to like Jessie.

Jack and Nurn are husbands.

Stella and Petra have known each other since childhood, they were best friends, but later broke up and saw each other only 15 years later. They tried to date, but Petra didn't like Stella's behavior, and they broke up, later Stella began to treat Petra badly.

Romeo loves coffee sm.

Petra is allergic to carrots.

Two Jesses like to eat raw potatoes.

Radar is afraid of dogs.

Milo loves croissants.

Harper and Mevia are exes.Harper broke up with Mevia bc she treated others badly, and Harper didn't like it. But Mevia still loves her.

Lucas is very good at cooking.

Mevia used to have red hair.

Romeo has poor eyesight.

Lukas loves ocelots bc his mom loved them, and they also kept ocelots at home.

Cassie tried to kill Mevia once after she put a pumpkin on her head. Cassie grew a kind of pumpkin that had a narcotic effect that confused the mind, bc of this Cassie could not control herself. (Do you remember Lukas, who put a pumpkin put on his head and just swayed? And later he fell, so he just felt bad bc of the pumpkin).

Romeo hates water.

[kibblywibbly]

Hey guys I just noticed something

In the intro to mcsm, we get the introductions to all the members of the order of the stone right? But one is a bit off..

"And Soren the Architect, Builder of Worlds."

Builder of worlds? Like.. an Old Builder, perhaps? And we all know that Soren's books are EVERYWHERE, right? So here's what I'm thinking: what if Soren is an Old Builder? Ivor knew about the Old Builders, quite a lot actually, but how? Maybe Soren told him about them but didn't say he WAS one? And how did he have so much knowledge? How did his books get everywhere? And also, we know Harper also had a world she looked after. What if the world where Mcsm takes place is the world Soren was looking after? What if Soren is an old builder that is just never talked about? Why else would there be so many books written by Soren EVERYWHERE, basically in almost every world? AND ALSO, I nearly forgot to mention, how did Soren know about the command block or how to use it? How did he even get ahold of it? So many questions, all left unanswered,,

Who IS this guy? Where did he come from? Where did his knowledge of the world come from?

[thrandilf]

do you have a guide as to the extra materials for The Dragon Prince? i keep seeing stuff about comics or books but idk where to start

Not on hand but I can make one here! :D

There are two, soon to be three, canon graphic novels.

Through the Moon takes place between seasons 3 and 4, like a little season 3.5 It isn't Necessary to read it before watching S4 but the story is cool and the extra information is neat. It feels like we might get more info regarding what happened to Rayla while she was gone later in the show

Bloodmoon Huntress takes place when Rayla is a child around when her parents leave. Lots of Runaan and Ethari, also introduces Kim'dael who will be in S5. Again, not Required reading but a fun extra story.

Puzzle House is coming out August 1st and is about Claudia and Soren as children, and we also get a look at younger Viren and other people. Harrow's father, King Atticus is still king in this one so interesting Katolis lore, SUPER hyped for when we get to read all of this one. The Scholastic link has a 15 pages preview if you wanna take a peek.

There are novelizations for Dragon Prince Season 1 and Season 2, they add a bit of introspection and small extra details. Viren in particular gets more of his internal thought processes laid out and for me it just Confirmed a lot of things. Season 3's novelization is coming out April 2nd, 2024. I'm sure all 7 seasons will eventually have novelizations.

Tales of Xadia is the ttrpg book and it's gorgeous and is probably the most lore heavy supplemental material as far as world building goes. The system also looks fun! The website has a character builder too for OC making. As a writer, it's been a great help as far as seeing some aspects of the world laid out. The system looks fun and there are videos of some of the cortex(?) team playing ToX official tales/campaigns but I haven't watched them yet. The campaigns are also available to look at online too.

I think that ToX is getting an expansion at some point since the base game doesn't touch much on Ocean or Star magic, I imagine due to spoilers for the seasons we're coming up on.

There's also a tabletop game called Battlecharged which I haven't personally played and I don't think it Adds lore but I've heard it's fun.

Also, it will likely be a long time before we see it, but there's a video game in the works as well that's in alpha testing right now called Project Arcanum. Wonderstorm is pretty busy!

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

The Free Stuff:

Reflections are official short stories hosted on TDP's website and all of them are excellent and provide little extra scenes. Some of them are quite impactful, and the ones in this second batch are promising an absolutely wild S5. The first batch was released pre S4 and the second batch is being released now pre S5 as we count down to the new season. They aren't Required reading since the most key information from them will be in the show (going by the S4 ones) but I highly HIGHLY rec reading them all. Banger after banger. As of posting this there may be one more coming.

There's also little 4 panel comics called Everyday Xadia that have been also released during countdown mode and they're just fun/cute. Volume One and Volume 2 (still coming out). Sometimes when people say comics they might mean these, or the graphic novels lol.

Thank you for the ask, I'm always happy to share the TDP love and I hope this was helpful to you and anyone else who'd like a ref!