#taz graphic novel

[wizard-loving-wizard]

and that's when i started sobbing

[very-much]

HOLY SHIT THEY FUCKING KILLED GRIFFIN MCELROY

[lithiumseven]

[gejnialnie]

I know that merle's terrified and his world just shattered but on the other hand I JUST WON AT LIFE!!!

[bunni-art]

now that Lup's got a canon design in the graphic novel, i feel okay sharing the speculative GN!Lup designs i've done!

being identical to taako makes it pretty easy to assume what she looks like, but it was fun to think up hair and clothes for her!

(also many of these poses were traced from taako in the graphic novel so credit to carey for that!!)

[herbgerblin]

I knew The Suffering Game graphic novel was going to wreck me but it’s actually doing this to me

[ananipurlue]

she

[ask-taz]

The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Games will release July 16th, 2024

[navvigating]

this made me cry. what a way to end the book, i will be impatiently waiting for story and song

[canonically-asexual]

I want to say something about the whole "Taako losing his beauty" discourse and I hope this makes sense because I don't know exactly how to say it.

A lot of people were disappointed that Taako didn't have to sacrifice his beauty in Wonderland, and I get it. It's a big moment in the the Taakitz reunion and character growth for Takko, etc etc. But here's the thing. And I want you to really think about this.

If you were Carey, how would you have drawn that? What features would you have changed or removed or added to indicate to the reader that Taako is no longer beautiful?

Because whatever your answer is, you're basically saying that that trait is inherently not beautiful. And people who have that trait are not beautiful.

So if you would add, say, dark circles under his eyes, you're saying that people with dark circles aren't beautiful. Scars on his face? People with scars aren't beautiful. Smaller eyes, maybe? Wrinkles? Acne? Shorter hair? Asymmetrical features? The stand you're taking is that those features negate someone's beauty.

And yeah, I get it. It would be about Taako's insecurities. Its not that those things are inherently unattractive, it's that Taako worries about them being unattractive. But it would still suck to be reading a book you've been looking forward to and see them call out something you yourself are insecure about as an indication of "losing beauty."

And that's not the McElroys brand. At all. They very deliberately didn't describe Taako's appearance when this happened, just the emotional impact it had. You can't really convey that the same way in graphic novel form. How could they have done it in a way that wouldn't make any of their readers feel shitty?

I think it's ultimately for the best that it was left out. The emotional impact of that singular moment wasn't worth the possible side effect of them inadvertently calling some of their fans ugly.

[isa-grapes]

ugh okay but the adventure zone balance in any context will never fail to make me emotional. the story is beyond sentimental to me. the graphic novels are so lovingly created, just like the whole campaign was. it’s the way that the bonds transcend the characters and bleed into the players, you know? the way that griffin knew that travis would save the voidfish, the way clint egged on justin to break the umbrastaff. all those little intricacies are different in gn form, but the soul of the thing is still there in the lines that stay verbatim from the podcast, and the fact that griffin is every npc, but they still put a dm character in the books. i know it’s sort of weird to read the stuff that’s changed or whatever, but it’s still so thematically full, and you can see it in the portrait at the end of the suffering game and you can see it in “you’re going to be amazing”

[wizard-loving-wizard]

you can't comprehend how much this image means to me... my beautiful darling wizard. he is broken and dirty and grizzled and furious. he got crushed by a washing machine. his robe is ruined, his thighs are out. shit just got REAL. this has derailed my entire day

[songforten]

inside out if it took place inside my head

[lithiumseven]

[gejnialnie]

new reaction picture just dropped!

[strawberrywooloo]

Some silly images from the new graphic novel that I have decided to grace the world with. (I’ll probably make a post actually ranting about the book later, so look forward to that? Maybe?)