Dungeon Crawler Carl, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel)

Entertaining. Great relationship between the cat and Carl. Artwork is awesome, except some of the pictures are too close to the wedge of the book, and some of the dialog is too small and faint to read. Production error?

This is the epic graphic novel adaptation of the LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl. This volume collects WEBTOON episodes 1 through 14. The planet has been turned into a televised dungeon crawl by the alien corporation Borant. Carl must try to survive along with his ex-girlfriend’s cat Donut, all while wearing no shoes and running around in his underpants. I really enjoyed this volume. I read some of it on WEBTOON when it originally released, as I’m a huge Dungeon Crawler Carl fan, but I had trouble with the format, and reading it as a serial just wasn’t really my thing. I think having it in this graphic novel format made me enjoy it a lot more because I could just read straight through. It follows the book pretty closely. I definitely think I enjoyed it more having already read the books and listened to the audiobooks, but it might also be a good starting point for someone who isn’t into those formats. Manga isn’t really my style aesthetically, but I still enjoyed the illustrations. The volume ends pretty early on Floor One, so I’m excited to see what happens next in the next volume which is scheduled to release in October 2026. Art: 4.5/5 Plot: 4.5/5 Writing: 4.5/5 My Enjoyment: 4.5/5

If you love the original books, you need this. Dungeon Crawler Carl is the first series I've ever read straight through. I started in March '26 and caught up completely by May. The story is just that good. This graphic novel adaptation is brilliant because it perfectly captures the chaos and gives amazing, accurate visuals to the delightful characters we already know, love and hate! Bring on Volume 2!

This highly anticipated book is soooooo good. I love the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and the graphic novel is a great rendition of the first book. Really wonderful visual touches and makes me appreciate the story even more.

First: I'm really excited this webtoon has been converted to a graphic novel. I prefer having books over digital media since I'd get distracted with other things on my phone. The cookies are fun, the expressions are fun, donut is a masterpiece, and I love the little chapter change scenes. Overall- I would recommend with warning. Now the warning for this is; is that there needs to be some serious adjustments to its readability. There needs to be more space for the art and binding. Some text boxes have unclear print. If I hadn't already known what it said, that would have been overly hard to read due to a mixture of: poor quality text print, orange and white text background, text going into the binding so I have to peek the book apart to read the text, such as the stat points in my first picture. Others have complained about its readability as well so I really hope that this is taken into account for the release in October and/or any upcoming novels.

I love this book series and wanted to let my son read it. He's not a big reader unless it's Mangas or graphic novels. So when I found this, I was super excited! He is a big gamer and told him about when I was reading the actual book, well listening because the audio book is to die for!!! It's so amazing and Jeff Hayes is phenomenal!!! Any who he finished it in less than 2 hours and loved it. Some things have been taken out, but that's ok. I told him he could now listen to my audio book for it! I'm so excited for this journey with my son. My husband also said he wanted to read it now!!!!!! At any rate I highly highly recommend

This book follows the first few chapters of the prose book of the same name. This graphic novel is how I was first introduced to the DCC series, which led me to purchase all the available copies of the prose books, listen to the audiobooks, and even buy DCC merch from the author’s website. Matt Dinniman’s writing follows a former Coast Guard anti-establishmentarian and his ex-girlfriend’s show cat through a post-apocalyptic alien survival game show. The AI in charge has some interesting fetishes and Carl is going to need some pants.

It's essentially a beautifully done story board of the first 13 chapters of the first book and that works perfectly. It covers events in enough detail that you don't feel like they left anything significant out, and that's hard to do in a graphic novel of a book. It works as either a standalone graphic novel or as a complement to the book. (But seriously read the books too, and read them first if you can - you'll enjoy the graphic novel a lot more) As a number of people have mentioned, the format is small and some of the display screens show are hard to read. Likely they did this for monetary reasons - so the books wouldn't be too expensive the first run, and that they can sell a larger format later to try to get us to pay for it twice. Some people have complained that Carl isn't depicted as the 'roided up hulk like he is on some of the book covers. In the graphic novel he seems younger and has a more average build. That didn't bother me. It fits the art style, and although described as big in the book (6 ft. 3 in, 230), that's not his defining characteristic and it isn't mentioned that much.

Schön gemacht! gefällt! Macht Spaß einmal Bilder zu dem bereits gelesenen DCC Buch zu haben.

Some details from the book on which this graphic novel is based are lost, but I think it’s the best possible adaptation. The artwork is very appealing and dynamic. I recommend it to everyone, both those who have read and loved the book and those who want to get into the series but prefer a comic book to the novel.

Fantastic way to read the story again! Would recommend 100% Buy this if you love Dungeon Crawler Carl!!

I can’t rave enough about this series. The graphic novel is amazing! Definitely recommend!

Funnt but expensive