{"id":5668,"date":"2026-04-09T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=manga&p=5668"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:17:09","slug":"the-adventure-zone-2-murder-on-the-rockport-limited","status":"publish","type":"manga","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/manga\/the-adventure-zone-2-murder-on-the-rockport-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventure Zone #2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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 detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts, and a pair of meat monsters.

You know, the usual things you find on a train.

Hot on the heels of “The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins”, the smash hit graphic novel that launched the series, “Murder on the Rockport Limited” picks up the saga where volume 1 left off. Both books are based on “The Adventure Zone,” a tabletop RPG comedy podcast with downloads numbering in the tens of millions and an army of passionately devoted fans. With art and co-adaptation from Carey Pietsch, the McElroys are once again turning their raucous freewheeling D&D campaign into some damn fine comics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Incredibly fun book as before! It’s a fantastic adaptation of the podcast, and I’m remembering all sorts of stuff as I read it. I remember now why I enjoyed it so much. I love how they work in the D&D elements in the comic. It’s funny and inobtrusive, played for solid comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found myself admiring Pietsch’s art yet again, but I’ve been a fan of hers for a good long while (I have a bunch of her comic zines from aaages ago). Of course I’m going to enjoy the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorite character?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jess the Beheader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then Angus, because we love Angus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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