#taz gn spoilers

[terezis]

THEY'RE GONNA KILL AMERICA'S FAVORITE WIZARD

#the cover has been uploaded to macmillan's website and sites like barnes and noble etc so i feel cool posting this LOL #taz #taz balance #taz graphic novel #the adventure zone #the suffering game #taz spoilers #taz gn spoilers #HELP IT'S SO GOOD #1k #5k

[felicitywilds]

don't mind me, just thinking about how in every other graphic novel cover, the d20 is in the air, bouncing away from them, just out of reach, almost mocking them as it determines their fates. but for the suffering game, taako is on his knees, front and center, pinning it to the ground, umbra staff at the ready. has he got a fuckin' idea for you.

#taz #taz gn #the adventure zone #taz balance #taako #taz gn spoilers #by me #time to FUCKING saute my dudes #i think its fair now to tag this as #top

[voidfishing]

LOVE.

#IM SO. NORMAL #taz #taz balance #taz gn spoilers #taz spoilers #taz balance spoilers #toon talking #the macmillan listing has preview pages if ur wondering where this is from lol #& btw my main spoiler tag will be ‘taz gn spoilers’

[gejnialnie]

someone’s got it bad for death, eh?

#taz #taz balance #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taakitz #taz graphic novel #taako's expression in first panel looks so cute tho #the last line is so funny to me that ''presumably'' at the end really makes it for me

[thisclownatemybrother]

can't stop thinking about the composition of these little scenes... the static bleeding into them where something else should be...

carey pietsch and the mcelroys you have done it again

#taz #the adventure zone #taz gn spoilers #taz gn #taz balance #the adventure zone graphic novel #taako #lup #graphic novel

[wizard-loving-wizard]

taako on the new cover is such an amazing choice for so many reasons. comparing it to the previous covers, the boys' expressions are usually pretty similar, using the shocked adventurer face or looking smug and confident. and for the suffering game, even magnus and merle still follow this — but taako is brand new. he has a look of pure rage and determination, pointed right at (almost at?) the audience. no more aloof, silly, goofy taako. he is hurt and broken and pissed all the way off!!!

beyond that, the composition of his whole body is so dynamic and different. taako is usually so poised, put-together, haughty and graceful. but NOW he's crouched on the ground, aggressive and feral. he's touching and acting on the environment and the d20, instead of just posing or being influenced by the environment (running from the train, falling into the time loop)

it all fits sooo well for this arc. eleventh hour is a great transition into the darker more serious elements of the story, and the suffering game is where reality sets in. shit gets bad. the whole thing feels so heavy and tragic and dismal. and taako's anger and despair is such an iconic part of that! this cover serves that very well. it shows how the boys will sacrifice a lot, and really grapple with their decisions and actions, and have to fight hard to save themselves.

if you didn't know the story and looked at all the gn covers, the tonal shift and story progression would be so obvious based on taako's appearance on the cover alone. it's smart. it's thematic. it's beautiful. and also, he's really hot

#kay i am not an artist but i cant stop looking at the cover dhshhxjd #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taz graphic novel #taz taako #taako

[icarussrancidart]

BIG fan of taako's cunty little boots on the new cover

#edit hi there op here this is NOT a ship post do NOT comment ship related things please and thanks #taako #taz balance #taz #the adventure zone #taz gn #the suffering game #taz gn spoilers #kinda #digital art #favorites

[raccoonnutella13]

kravitz's soft smile. that's it that's the post

#gayass (affectionate) #taz #the adventure zone #the zone cast #taz graphic novel #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taz balance #taakitz #<-implied #coon speaks #id in alt

[stroobae]

SHES HERE PEOPLE

#taz #taz balance #the adventure zone #taz gn #the eleventh hour #the eleventh hour gn #lup #LUPPPP #when we actually get to see her character design you’re never going to see me again #im deadass just going to evaporate #i love her more than life #HER. #taz gn spoilers

[lucretiaadventurezone]

tres horny boys gn outfit appreciation

#the BOOTS #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #the adventure zone #taz balance #the eleventh hour #a sydney original

[entguarde]

love this animal. the sheriff and deputy of refuge

#ent talk #taz balance spoilers #the adventure zone balance #taz gn spoilers #the adventure zone #the adventure zone: the 11th hour #Taz roswell #that bird stole my gender. give it BACK

[terezis]

ok here's the hot goss from the nycc taz gn panel

i don't actually know whether or not it was recorded/ if they're going to put it online so here is my summary. also if i miss anything and u were there pls feel free to chime in. spoilers obviously!!!

got eight new preview pages (four two-page spreads), not the pages on the macmillan website!!!

ok i will tell u about those pages but the main thing discussed at the panel was how they went about adapting this arc into gn form. the actual time spent in wonderland has been trimmed a lot bc they had to think about what was actually important to the narrative as they are building to story and song.

basically in planning out the suffering game they also really had to decide what the rest of the series would look like, bc whatever they include now is seeding the stuff that's going to happen later.

cam is not in this book. it was implied there's less wheel spins. rowan/ash/sterling get much less screen time

almost half of this book is lunar interlude stuff (pre and post suffering game, INCLUDING REUNION TOUR!!! no word on where it ends but they made it clear that a LOT of thought went into what to include and where to end it, and what that would mean for the next book)

ok so about those preview pages

first one was post-taakitz date with kravitz sensing a lich and the umbra staff shooting at him <3 <3 <3

i thought they were going to show us the preview pages that were on macmillan so when i saw kravitz i was so shook

second spread was magnus visiting the voidfish, which now happens right before they leave for wonderland; the whole beginning of tsg from magnus trying to talk to pringles to him kidnapping those guards to the chimera fight was cut LOL bc it never really got… addressed again in the podcast

angus comes to get him for the mission but magnus has been going Through It (outright stated, they were like. he found out he's a red robe. he would probably not be handling it well. he has eyebags now. LOL) and snaps at angus when angus presses him on what's wrong.

more angus content, he will be investigating what's going on at the bureau more (his scene w magnus ties into this)

same for lucretia! more content/ stuff for her to do

third spread was merle w his kids getting saved by the red robe, is at a carnival instead of a random street this time LOL

last one was the boys arriving just outside of wonderland

wonderland looks fuckign cool

what else… oh confirmed like eighty panels of bare ass naked magnus after he gets his body back. so i think we really are getting the full reunion tour this book???

ALSO NAKED BARRY COVERED IN SLIME. WHEN HE GETS OUT OF THE POD. CONFIRMED. CANON. LOL

omg ALSO!!! ben (editor) said he campaigned REALLY HARD to have the umbra staff break during the suffering game, freeing lup early, bc he really wanted more time with her, but griffin campaigned really hard NOT to do this, and in doing so his arguments solved a lot of other problems they had been having at the time LOL

travis is the fans' champion when the others get too edit-happy. he's the one who has a good idea of what moments are important to the readers so he's like hey… too far. don't cut that. and then they don't

justin leaves great notes and when they couldn't figure stuff out ben would often say "no it's fine justin will solve this." and he ALWAYS DID

this was news to justin

??? i think that's all the main points honestly i'm v picky about adaptations but overall i feel like these are good changes that make sense when translating the podcast to gn

that said i do hope taako still gets a washing machine dropped on him <3 do this for me carey <3

#taz #taz balance #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #the suffering game #sorry it's long it was just SO juicy #didn't even mention them talkign about all the like technical art stuff carey also talked about color/panel composition to convey #info and mood

[felicitywilds]

magnus and merle smiling and returning the sentiment while taako looks surprised and mildly uncomfortable..... resorting to his usual peacocking “yeah well we’re US” in the very next panel

#taz #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taz balance #the adventure zone #the suffering game #suffering game gn #by me #i cant fucking WAIT #also like who wants to bet her 'scout' is lup??????????? eyes emoji #taako my beloved

[umbraastaff]

I GOTTA say... that opening monologue from lucretia for Suffering Game....... can't stop thinking about how easy & fitting it would be to parallel those lines with stuff barry says at the end when he's revealing who he is

#graphic novel #the suffering game #taz balance #taz gn spoilers #mine

[gejnialnie]

well, we didn’t get The Date, but I’d say what we got was pretty cute!

#taz #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taz graphic novel #taakitz #i have no complaints tbh! #also taako strategically letting his hair down lmao very smooth #tho ngl the last line made me smile it was cute

[leftmyheartinthetardis]

I've been losing my mind the past couple of days over The Eleventh Hour gn in general but especially over the cup going through THB's pasts because like

Here's Merle's past and it's clear and comprehensive and the Voidfish static appears only in the middle of his memories when he must have been on the Starblaster

And then there's Taako's

And the static is bleeding into all his earlier memories because Lup was always there until she wasn't. And that's when his memories become clear because you can't erase what was never there

#taz #the adventure zone #taz gn #taz gn spoilers #taz eleventh hour #eleventh hour gn #taako #merle #if you listen close you can hear me crying #lup #lup adventurezone #merle highchurch #taako adventurezone