The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins is the first volume in a series of planned graphic novels that adapt The Adventure Zone. It is an adaptation of The Balance Arc's first story arc, Here There Be Gerblins. It is written by the McElroy brothers and their father, and illustrated by artist Carey Pietsch.

Blurb
Welcome to the Adventure Zone!

''SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!''

''READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!''

''MARVEL! At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time!''

Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.

With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure.

Trivia

 * Several characters have been renamed, due to being characters from the original Lost Mines of Phandelver module and thus Wizards of the Coast IP:
 * Klarg is now G'nash.
 * Yeemick is now Yahvvie.
 * Gundren Rockseeker is now Bogard Stoneseeker; his brothers, Thardin and Nundro, are now Caggle and Dorb respectively.
 * Additionally, Phandalin has been changed to Haverdale.
 * Kurtze and the encounter with the bandits have been written out in favor of giving Barry Bluejeans a more active role in his last scene.
 * Renée the Jackhammer Robot does not appear.
 * The book also adapts and condenses the first episode of Moonlighting; rather than Johann demonstrating the Voidfish's memory-wiping ability beforehand with his very beautiful elevator music, he is not present in the scene aside from a brief appearance at the beginning and instead the Director inoculates the boys herself.
 * Merle owns the Extreme Teen Bible from the beginning of the book, rather than buying it at Fantasy Costco during Moonlighting as he does in the show.