Goblin

Yen Press publishes original light novel series, main manga adaptation This year's 18th issue of Shueisha's Young Gangan magazine revealed on Friday that artist Kento Eida is launching a manga spinoff of Kumo Kagyu's Goblin Slayer! light novel series titled Goblin Slayer! Side Story: Year One. The manga will launch in the next issue on September 15. Kagyu is credited with the original work, and Noboru Kannatsuki and Shingo Adachi are credited with the original character design. SB Creative published the first volume of the Goblin Slayer! dark fantasy novel series in February 2016, and the company will publish the sixth volume on September 14. Noboru Kannatsuki illustrates the novel series. The series centers on a man who desires to become an "adventurer," but insists on only killing goblins. The story begins with a female priest who has just joined a party, but quickly gets in trouble. She is saved by the man known as the "Goblin Slayer," a man who is ranked Gold (third hi

Breaking the fourth wall of the Kevin Shinick-written, Javier Rodriguez-drawn “AXIS: Hobgoblin” #1, the titular character advises readers to check in with “Axis” #3 first. That is sound advice both for this review and for the comic book experience itself, as Roderick Kingsley takes the spotlight and turns up his very best Billy Mays, convincing us all to become superheroes. Television writer/producer of “MAD” and “Robot Chicken,” Shinick is no stranger to the outer fringes of Spider-Man’s world, having written the comic book adventures of Carnage in “Superior Carnage” as well as various and sundry Marvel Universe heroes and villains in the pages of “Superior Spider-Man Team-Up.” This time, however, Shinick is able to pull the curtain back a bit and gives readers a face full of the machinations of Kingsley’s moneymaking empire. Shinick does it all with flair and pizzazz, giving Kingsley a rapt audience hanging on his every word. Even his enemies are interested in what Kingsley has do

Since the “Dungeons & Dragons” comics of the ’80s, comics based on tabletop roleplaying games have traditionally included game statistics for their characters and situations, and “Pathfinder Goblins!” #1 is no exception. Before that, though, there are two short stories based in the world of Pathfinder, a popular tabletop RPG that spun off from the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Both of them center, as expected, around goblins, who have become something of a mascot for the Pathfinder line. Both are written with gamers in mind, though one succeeds and the other fails. “The One-Eyed Goblin is King,” written by Adam Warren and drawn by Carlos Gomez, falls flat as a story. It relies too heavily on being a nudge-nudge-wink-wink reference to the Eye of Vecna, a notorious “Dungeons & Dragons” artifact that causes strife among adventurers as they vie for its powers by cutting out their own eyes to replace them with Vecna’s. The problem is that Warren and Gomez’s story shows

Kento Eida debuted spinoff of Goblin Slayer! light novels on Friday Yen Press announced on Friday that it is launching the Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One manga in English that day — which is also the same day it debuted in Japan. Artist Kento Eida is serializing this manga spinoff of Kumo Kagyu's Goblin Slayer! light novel series in Shueisha's Young Gangan magazine in Japan. SB Creative published the first volume of the Goblin Slayer! dark fantasy novel series in February 2016, and the company published the sixth volume on September 14. Noboru Kannatsuki illustrates the novel series. The series centers on a man who desires to become an "adventurer," but insists on only killing goblins. The story begins with a female priest who has just joined a party, but quickly gets in trouble. She is saved by the man known as the "Goblin Slayer," a man who is ranked Gold (third highest) in his local guild in subduing goblins. In the story, he says, "I won't save the world, I just ki

In Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, readers are experiencing the adventures of a version of the title character who has achieved a rare victory: becoming part of a family who can help him shoulder his responsibility to protect New York. Peter Parker, his wife Mary Jane (who used the technology of the supervillain known as the Regent to become the superhero Spinneret) and his daughter Annie (AKA the youthful hero Spiderling) are a loving and supportive crime fighting team, who inspire each other to be the best they can be — but they’re about to face their greatest challenge. RELATED: Venom Inc. Crossover Coming to Amazing Spider-Man, Venom That challenge arrives this week in Renew Your Vows #11, by series artist-turned-writer, Ryan Stegman, and new artist Brian Level. Young Normie Osborn revives his family’s legacy of evil, and as the new Green Goblin declares war on Spider-Man. CBR spoke with Stegman about the story of Normie’s revenge, which will close ou