Hello, Crawlers! We're so pleased to invite you to CROCODILE, Dungeon Crawler Carl's first official graphic novel expansion. Now get out there and kill, kill, ki--er, pledge!
🐊 Hello, Crawlers. Welcome to the World Dungeon! AGAIN.From the minds of series creator Matt Dinniman, writer Michael Moreci, and artist Brett Bean comes the first-ever official side-story in the Dungeon Crawler Carl universe: DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL: CROCODILE.
🐊 This story follows mercenary and loner Florin DuPont, who struggles with his own humanity as he competes on the alien game show Dungeon Crawler World. Watch Florin and the remaining survivors of the global apocalypse fight bizarre monsters and face ridiculous challenges for the entertainment of an interstellar audience!
🐊 Perfect for both die-hard fans of the smash-hit series AND newbie readers ready to take the plunge... It's the First Floor like you've never seen it before, and it's coming to you in kickass graphic novel format.
Look at you! You've unlocked a once-in-a-lifetime (so at least a week or more) opportunity to purchase the graphic novel, DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL: CROCODILE, in physical or digital format!
You are now also within striking distance of your ONLY opportunity to acquire the EXCLUSIVE DCC: Crocodile CAMPAIGN-ONLY hardcover edition. It’s real. It's upgradable. It’s glorious. And we're making this edition completely unavailable after the end of the campaign, so if you want one, you better get your ass in gear.
📘BookFeatures include:
❗NEW❗Bronze Fan Box upgrade: cover of the exclusive hardcover is now foiled!
❗NEW❗Silver Fan Box upgrade: both standard and exclusive editions get larger dimensions!
❗NEW❗Gold Fan Box upgrade: both standard and exclusive editions get more content!
❗NEW❗Platinum Fan Box upgrade: both standard and exclusive editions get a comic epilogue!
❗NEW❗Legendary Fan Box upgrade: exclusive editions gets colorful page edges!
❗NEW❗Silver Benefactor Box upgrade: both standard and exclusive editions get spot gloss!
❗NEW❗Celestial Fan Box upgrade: exclusive editions get a double-sided dust jacket!
176+ pages of brand-new blood-soaked Crocodile comic adventures.
Your choice of edition, including digital. Or you could, you know, upgrade to a big-boy book.
More mobs than you can shake a screaming monkey at! We tested it!
A buttload of Fan Box-unlockable upgrades, such as size increase, page increase, special treatments...maybe even additional comics. How extra can this book get? You should ask yourself instead...how extra do you want it to be?
💎 You want them. You don’t deserve them. But you can buy them.
We've got custom art, audio, and more from series creators Matt Dinniman and Brett Bean, and series collaborators like Jeff Hays! These Legendary and Celestial reward tiers are in extremely short supply, so you'd better get moving.
💀 Are your clothes insufficiently rad? Do strangers look at you and not immediately know you’ve survived a dungeon floor? We can fix you. We've got a ton of collectible hand-selected Croc curios from the bowels of the dungeon.
If you behave and vote on your Fan Boxes like good boys and girls, you might even get a few more added to your rewards for free.
That's right, we're getting meta with this shit. Fan boxes unlock once we hit certain campaign goals. Contents may include (but are not limited to): new add-ons! book upgrades! nerve agents! you know... the good stuff!
But remember, only campaign backers get to vote on the final reward. Once a box is received, fans will only have until when poll closes to vote for the Contents. Choose wisely.
🎁 Congratulations! For surviving until Launch, you’ve unlocked a BRONZE FAN BOX. Voting has concluded. Reward: every Exclusive Hardcover will now be FOILED.
🎁 Congratulations! For reaching 8,000 campaign backers, you’ve unlocked a SILVER FAN BOX.
Voting has concluded. Reward: hardcovers of both editions will now be UPSIZED.
🎁 Congratulations! For reaching $1.5 Million in pledges, you’ve unlocked a GOLD FAN BOX.
Reward: hardcovers of both editions have earned a PAGE INCREASE (New development content).
🎁 Congratulations! For making us the top #5 Most Funded project on BackerKit, you’ve unlocked a PLATINUM FAN BOX. Voting has been disabled on this box’s prize due to a Borant takeover.
Reward: brand new EPILOGUE BONUS COMIC included in all editions
🎁 LEGENDARY FAN BOX unlocks at: sustain a 24-hour Backer Train PAST the scheduled end of the campaign on November 3rd, 10am PST (sustain a continuous train until November 4th, 10am PST). Voting has concluded.
Reward: all BackerKit exclusive hardcover editions will now have COLORFUL PAGE EDGES.
🎁 CELESTIAL FAN BOX unlocks at: surpass the all-time longest Backer Train record of 5 days 14 hours and 40 min Voting has concluded. Reward: all BackerKit exclusive hardcover editions will now have a DOUBLE-SIDED DUST JACKET.
Matt Dinniman is a writer, artist, and musician (well, he’s a bass player) from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
Michael Moreci is a screenwriter and bestselling comics author. His award-winning debut feature film, Revealer, premiered on Shudder in the summer of 2022. His second feature, Holiday Hold-Up, a crime comedy that Moreci co-directed/wrote, was released in 2024. He was also a writer on the SyFy series Revival. In the comics space, Moreci is the creator of the acclaimed gothic horror series The Plot, the werewolf drama Curse, the existential space opera Wasted Space, and the smash-hit sword-and-sorcery series Barbaric,. He’s also written for numerous legendary characters and properties, including Star Wars, Rick and Morty, Stranger Things, and more, and he co-hosts The Filmographers Podcast.
Brett Bean is a writer, character designer, and artist originally from Seattle, Washington. He is currently working on his creator owned comic book called D’orc, and has written and drawn two kids book series, Muk n Honey and The Zoo Patrol Squad. Some of his other comic book work can be seen in Marvel’s Rocket and Groot, I Hate Fairyland, and Street fighter x Darkstalkers comics. Brett also works in film, TV, puppetry, and video games on properties like Fraggle Rock, Crash Bandicoot, and the new Naked Gun movie. He lives in Los Angeles with three redheads.
The System AI is the only AI involved in the creation of this graphic novel... We'll leave the dungeon fuckery to the machines, and in the meantime, thank you for supporting human artists!
We've optimized our campaign to ship smoothly and on schedule with the support of our fulfillment partners at Vala and friends at Whalebacker. All shipping costs for this project will be calculated and applied after the end of the campaign, based on where you're located in the world.
Estimated shipping rates*
USA: $8 - $15 USD
Canada, UK, EU $20 - $29 USD
Rest of World: $30 - $40 USD
When your orders are ready to ship, we'll let you know via BackerKit's Pledge Manager. You'll be charged shipping at that time, and will receive an email once your package has been shipped. We expect to begin fulfillment in early 2027 at the very latest.
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Vault Comics publishes original, creator-owned science fiction, fantasy, and horror comics and graphic novels from both emerging and established creators. We're always looking for more ways to support and connect our creators with readers new and old.
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